community garden

A few weeks ago (okay… at this point it is probably looking more like a month since I am wearing SHORTS in these photos) my friend Amelia and I went for a walk here in Ottawa. This is something we do frequently, but this day Amelia suggested we walk on over to Main St. to check out this beautiful Children’s Garden that she had stumbled upon a couple weeks prior.




So off we walked! Fall had just hit Ottawa, and the colours had just changed, The leaves were falling, and slowly but surely we had come into Fall. The weather here has been a bit strange, and we had a warmer than average Fall, and we sort of just jumped right into the beautiful colours etc., but didn’t have the cool weather. Of course—typical Calgarian here talking about the weather… it follows you, okay! Or is this just a Canadian thing?




The Children’s Garden is REALLY cool. It’s located in Old Ottawa East, right down the street from St. Paul’s University. It’s not only a beautiful neighbourhood, but the garden is full of colour, an organic garden, compost bins, trees, and a place for story time.




It was really fun playing in the leaves, checking out the little nooks and crannies of the garden and overall just feeling like a kid again! Not only is the sustainability aspect of the garden really cool, but it was fun to just let go and adventure and explore like kids do.






Mucho thanks to Amelia for bringing me here, as well as taking my picture while playing in the leaves. It was a great afternoon!

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