Winter’s Capital

Yes, at the risk of furthering certain stereotypes of Canada and our nation’s capital, it seemed only fitting to end this series by publishing images of our Parliament under the cloak of last week’s ice storm. While some may prefer these in colour, I think, again, the black and white treatment suits the embattled limestone slabs and the copper roofs against the ‘blue’ sky and behind he dark trunks and branches of the maples. And for those still ardently clinging to your stereotypes, no Ottawa is not the world’s coldest capital: that honour belongs to Mongolia’s Ulaan-Baatar and to a whole host of Baltic capitals along with Moscow whose mean temperatures are all ‘lower’ … and in terms of winter itself, Ottawa is only the third coldest in terms of recorded temperature after Ulaan-Baatar and Moscow again. So there you are, this is Canada’s almost Caribbean capital last week.