{"id":6524,"date":"2012-01-14T08:19:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-14T13:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=6524"},"modified":"2012-01-14T11:18:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T16:18:57","slug":"this-week-in-pictures-winter-and-other-diversions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2012\/01\/14\/this-week-in-pictures-winter-and-other-diversions\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in pictures: Winter and other diversions"},"content":{"rendered":"

A<\/span>fter a notable absence, winter has arrived with a vengeance in Ottawa recently. I can’t wait to get out and start taking pictures of the great snow dump we got yesterday — but I might wait until the temperatures warm up a bit beyond the current minus 30 with the wind chill. Brrrr!<\/p>\n

But heck, winter lasts a long time here in the world’s snowiest capital city, so you kind of have to suck it up and get outside and enjoy it. Like this!<\/p>\n

\"Sliding\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And then you have to stand by patiently and look cute while your mom takes your picture. Again.<\/p>\n

\"Simon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Tristan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Or maybe you ham it up a bit and hope she’ll go away and let you get back to playing in the snow.<\/p>\n

\"Lucas<\/a><\/p>\n

And then you can go back to this.<\/p>\n

\"Winter<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of getting out in the winter, can you believe I’ve never walked the full loop from the Interprovincial Bridge to the Portage Bridge and back? It’s a gorgeous five kilometre loop and takes just a little bit less than an hour to walk, even if you stop every now and then to take a picture or five. I’ve vowed to try to do it once a week, weather be damned, until my jeans are feeling a little less snug.<\/p>\n

(I’ve also discovered the Pano app for my iPhone. How have I missed this before now? This one was taken on the Portage Bridge, facing Parliament Hill.)<\/p>\n

\"Ottawa<\/a><\/p>\n

More Peace Tower shots. I can’t help myself!<\/p>\n

\"Peace<\/a><\/p>\n

From icy and blue to warm and soft — you might remember this shot from earlier in the week. Tristan spontaneously asked if he could read Lucas a bedtime story, and then proceeded to read to him for half an hour. This one is a keeper.<\/p>\n

\"Big<\/a><\/p>\n

Heh. The boys pointed out that not only do my multicoloured toes match my jammies, but they both match my coffee cup.<\/p>\n

\"Lazy<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo tip: to catch the cat staring directly into your lens, compose your photo and then scritch your fingernail against the side of your lens. Snap! (There’s nothing I can suggest to erase the vague look of disdain, though!) <\/p>\n

\"Willie<\/a><\/p>\n

(If you read an earlier version of this post, there was some misinformation from a hacked account in here. Carry on, folks, nothing to see here.) <\/p>\n

\"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ll let ee cummings have the last word on this one. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a notable absence, winter has arrived with a vengeance in Ottawa recently. I can’t wait to get out and start taking pictures of the great snow dump we got yesterday — but I might wait until the temperatures warm up a bit beyond the current minus 30 with the wind chill. Brrrr! But heck, … Continue reading “This week in pictures: Winter and other diversions”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6524"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6533,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6524\/revisions\/6533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}