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Cana­di­ans like pets, and in res­i­den­tial neigh­bour­hoods it’s com­mon to see peo­ple walk­ing their dogs after an early diner, no mat­ter the weather.
How­ever, unlike French, Cana­di­ans are well-behaved and they pick up after their dogs—streets here are not dot­ted with dog poop.

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Snowy Scarves

Submitted by on February 4, 2008 – 6:33 pm28 Comments

After the spi­der tak­ing over the city, here my entry for Gra­ham’s Feb­ru­ary Pho­to­graph Chal­lenge. This month, the theme is “pat­tern” and when I learned about it, I imme­di­ately thought of this picture.

I took it about a month ago, down­town Ottawa. I was shop­ping in the Byward mar­ket and it started to snow. Not bliz­zard snow, but yet pretty big flakes. Soon enough, the stalls were cov­ered by a thin layer of the white stuff, but we kept on shop­ping any­way cause well, after all, we’re Cana­di­ans, right?

As you can maybe tell by the lay­out of my blog, I love col­ors and pat­terns, so I often take close-up of goods on dis­play in mar­kets: food, veg­gies, clothes and yes, scarves. I loved the mix of snow flakes and the fab­ric here.

Pattern

Feel free to par­tic­i­pate in the chal­lenge as well!

PS: as you may have noticed, I changed my Word­Press theme this week-end. Con­clu­sion of the expe­ri­ence:
1) If you see any bugs, don’t worry, it’s gonna be fixed soon (I hope!)
2) I have a lot of posts sit­ting in my Feed Reader! I’m gonna start to catch up in a minute.
3) Hope you like the new lay­out! It’ll be improved this week.

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  1. Snow, Snow, Snow… And More Snow
  2. Pic­ture of the Week: Snow Melting
  3. Through The Storm
  4. Snow & Slush
  5. Snow Sculp­tures And Win­ter Fun

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28 Comments »

  • Max Coutinho says:

    Zhu,

    Thank you :D ! I cel­e­brate so many New Years: the West­ern one, the pagan one (Samhain) and now I am shar­ing the Chi­nese one with you too :D !

    No, dar­ling; I am not into bright patterns…my thing are dark colours :cool:

    Cheers

    Max Coutinho’s last blog post..Mis­sive to the Lord

  • amypalko says:

    I love how the snow actu­ally exag­ger­ates the rib in the scarves. I would imag­ine that, as the snow con­tin­ued to fall, the ribbed pat­tern would be oblit­er­ated alto­gether. You obvi­ously caught this shot of the pat­tern at the right time!
    Look­ing for­ward to your March con­tri­bu­tion to Graham’s photo chal­lenge :-)

    amypalko’s last blog post..Dear Mum,

  • Muse says:

    I love this shot — the col­ors seep­ing through the snow. Great con­trast, and i don’t see snow here often but the shot really makes me able to vividly remem­ber the taste, feel and sound of snow just look­ing at it :smile:

    Muse’s last blog post..Mar­tians

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