1, Sussex Drive

9 November 2009By Zhu 17 Comments

We headed to Rideau Hall, the official residence of the Governor General of Canada, as well as that in Ottawa of the Canadian monarch. The estate, located at 1 Sussex Drive, is huge. Like many officials places in Canada, such as the Parliament, it is open to general public for free.

While the main buildings are off-limits (they are used for state affairs), anybody can stroll the grounds freely. We took the chance to shoot some nice late Fall pictures. The trees were mostly bare but it gave the place quite an atmosphere. Plus, I had fun with the leaves on the ground!

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Priyank said:

I love walking on carpet of leaves… there was no Autumn season in Mumbai, so I love crunching leaves under my feet. You look so happy in the picture.
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# 12 November 2009 at 11:07 pm

Seraphine said:

the red berries!
and state affairs.
giggle, and state affairs!
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# 12 November 2009 at 12:45 am

Zhu (author) said:

@Agnes – Is Fall as beautiful where you live?

@Nigel Babu – Thank you!

@Bluefish – Yeah, I remember, the French Fall was like that too… I hated it.

@RennyBA’s Terella – Here. it goes back and forth: one day hot, one day cold. Can’t complain too much considering it’s November.

@Angela – Thank you!

@DianeCA – I used to love playing with fallen leaves… okay, I still do

@Tulsa Gentleman – Same here actually! The last few days were very warm by our standard (15C).

@CM-Chap – Thank you! I use a Nikon D60.

@Khengsiong – Some were red, some were yellow, it depends on the trees actually. Like maple has red leaves for example.

@Bill Miller – Yes, it was this one. I don’t think those are cherries. It’s hard to explain the scale from the picture because I took a close-up, but they were very small, like a fingernail I guess. Not sure what they are.

@Linguist-in-Waiting – We have a very small yard with only one tree, so we are good. That said, I wouldn’t like to be raking the leaves in Rideau Hall, it’s a huge place!

@Nisha – The sunset one is online now

@Max Coutinho – Feng took it for me. We spent like 30 minutes laughing at each other, taking pictures in motion while playing with the leaves