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Bank Street Beauties in the Snow – Ottawa
On a snowy day in Ottawa last weekend we took a stroll along trendy Bank Street with its colourful facades and funky shops and restaurants.
It was cold, the snow was blowing at times, and we had somewhere to be, so here is a small and somewhat hurried selection of the colourful doors we found:
Not sure if it was the colour of the door, the name of the shop, or the street art that attracted me most, but I had to get them all into one shot 🙂
We may have to go back when the weather is warmer to explore the area a little better. Some of the century-old homes we saw on the side streets left me with the impression that a serious doorscursion in this neighbourhood could be fruitful.
And here are a few shiny bonus doors we found in a old landmark hotel not far from there.
As always I thank you for looking 🙂
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All great shots, especially the wall mural art but I like the snow flurries in your shots!
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Thank you 🙂
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Wow! Your photos always blow me away!
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Thank you Phil. That’s very kind of you to say 🙂
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I was thinking my favorite would the be the stained glass bouquet…until I got to the green door, lost marbles, street art compilation. I love that! 🙂 The blowing snow add such an element of movement too.
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Thank you Amy. I had a lot of fun capturing these shots 🙂
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Oooo, I love 840! The bit just above the door is so fancy, and the glasswork. And I’m a sucker for those old hotels’ mail drops. The telephones flanking it are a sheer delight. What a happy picture!
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Thanks Marian. That and the stained glass sealed the deal for me 🙂
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Adore the pink entryway. That inn’s telephones is neat…Nice shot of the green entryway with the spray painting off to the side.
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Thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed them 🙂
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Love the pink door. That hotel’s phones is neat.
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Thanks. The stained glass on the pink door is what attracted me most and I just HAD to include those phones in the mailbox shot 🙂
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Love the bright colored doors, the wall art, and the hotel mailbox and phones are wonderful. Great finds. 🙂
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Thank you Judy 🙂
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Nice shot of the green door with the graffiti off to the side !!!
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Thanks – that was my favorite shot of the bunch 🙂
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Wonderful, Norm! One of your best.
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Thank you – so glad you liked it 🙂
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My pleasure!
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Here’s my Valentine Door a few days after the great event. You have great doors this week!!!
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Thank you Judy 🙂
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My you’re brave to go out in that blizzard! 🙂 I loved the green and red doors, and that stained glass window at 840.
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Well we had to walk about 6 or 7 blocks from where we parked the car to where we were going and this short squall blew in so I just went with it. The temps were reasonably mild (just below freezing) and we were well dressed so it was kinda fun 🙂
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Very brave! BRRRRR!
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More amazing colorful doors! Great series, Norm.
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Thanks Angela 🙂
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Am surprised to see such colorful doors in the North! The snow makes it truly look a Wonderland! As to your comment now two weeks ago, about “complex problems” of the attack in Quebec, one of the many “answers” needed, I think is what I’ve written this week underneath my painting of “Open the Gates). I Don’t know how it is at the moment in Canada, but in the USA there’s a lot of mud slinging going around, that is really concerning me. The internet aggravates it,as well as the media, with one-sided info. Even though not liking to discover what is going on around the surface, the wrong undercurrents and backdoor deals needed to be exposed.
But these existing problems go so deep as to how children are raised, education, etc.
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Thanks for the kind comments about the doors.
As for the rest: I think education and learning to do a critical analysis of the information we receive is key. What I find so disheartening at the moment is to see how easily so many people can be influenced through fear mongering. I’d like to think it is not as bad here, but we have our share of politicians who are so hungry for power that they will say just about anything – it’s shameful.
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Delightful – especially with the blowing snow! Mrs. Tiggly Winkles must be a candy store, right?
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Thanks Jan. From what I saw it looked like a toy/board game store.
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Love those double red dooors!
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Thanks – they really stand out in the snow 🙂
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Sooooo, I have to travel to Canada to find my lost marbles? I would definitely do that to spend time on Bank Street with the lovely, colorful doors and the bakery. I could go for a piece of pie or cake or chocolate donut…
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There are lots of tasty treats to be found in the shops on Bank Street, we taste tested a number of them ourselves 😉
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Research in this instance was a Mmmmust.
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Love the wintery feel to your post this week Norm.
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Thanks Colline. I’m hoping they’ll have a spring feel soon 😉
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Love the first shot, with the flurry of snow, that was beautifully captured 🙂 And Oh Oh Oh on the shiny vintage mailbox and telephone vignette!
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Thanks Joey. I can’t resist, whenever I see vintage objects I just have to capture them.
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Great doors. I love the contrast between the red and blue and red and green. And, I love seeing the snow from out here in rainy CA!
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Thank you. Yes the red really stands out in the snow doesn’t it.
Hope the rain is comes to an end soon – stay dry 🙂
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Great selection today, Norm. I’m glad you got that store name, store, and street art all in one so. When you go back, you will have to go in the store and check it out for us!
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Thanks Corina, I will indeed. From what I saw I believe it’s a toy store.
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I love Ottawa…especially Bank Street! I went to University there (Carleton for my undergrad and then Ottawa U for my B.Ed.) Thanks for the trip back down memory lane…with a few new sights thrown in!
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Thanks Donna glad you enjoyed. That whole neighbourhood, The Glebe, warrants further exploration. Some of those big old homes are just gorgeous. I’m looking forward to going back in the summer.
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All lovely lost and found marbles, not hurried at all.
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Thank you Manja. I haven’t found all of my marbles yet, but I think that life is more fun that way 🙂
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Nice set of doors. Ottawa is on the list of places I’d like to visit. I hear it is a gem of a place.
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Thanks Chris. It’s a very compact city. Lots of history, architecture, museums, shops and restaurants and things you’d expect from a bigger city but everything seems close by. They also have lots of green space too.
With the 150th celebrations, 2017 would be a good time to go 🙂
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Hmmmm…If we can fit in a vacation, it sounds like it would be great. Thank you.
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Lovely snowy doors! Not much snow in Mid-Missouri this winter. That is not a complaint lol
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Thanks. It was a below average snowfall winter here until two weeks ago and yes, now everyone’s complaining 😉
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Lots of lovely red doors this week, thank you Norm. But I have to admit that my favourite is the pink one, number 840, with its fantastic stained glass window and beautiful moulding.
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Thanks Jean. I have to admit I wasn’t fond of the colour on that pink/salmon door but that stained glass is what compelled me to capture it.
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I love the mailbox and the snow in the shots, especially in the first one. I agree with Joanne about all the colors and the need for them at this time of year. You have a winning gallery here, Norm.
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Thank you Janet. A splash of color is very welcome right about now 🙂
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So true.
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Lost marbles – is that term also used in Canada for mentally unstable? I like Mrs Tiggy Winkle’s door too. The inner polished brass doors are superb. My doors are from the Red Fort as promised. I posted the blog from my phone, so I didn’t get the full address of that specific blog, just my whole site. Sorry. Please alter it if you can. Best wishes, Ian
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Thanks Ian. Yes Lost Marbles is a term to describe those who are mentally unstable…here we also call them Politicians 😀
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I love the lost marbles pic!
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Thanks, I liked that one too 🙂
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Great finds on a weekend when Ottawa was getting dumped on!! Door 840 is a colourful addition on a snowy day, but Lost Marbles is the best 🙂 You’re right, there is something about the combination of the 3 elements together … plus the fire hydrant! Maybe it’s just my need for colour right now! 🙂
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Thanks Joanne. I’m feeling it too right now. It has been a gray winter and any spot of colour to break it up is welcome these days 🙂
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I love the colors and I really like the names Lost Marbles and Mrs Tiggy Winkles. You have to hope stores like that can survive. I am a huge fan of letter boxes in the lobby and you snagged a nice one, Norm. It was also comforting to know that I wasn’t the only person photographing doors in blowing snow. There might be something wrong with us 🙂
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Thanks Dan. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with us, we’re just ‘passionate’ about doors 😉
(That’s my story, and I’m sticking to it)
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Agreed!
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I love the snow and thinking about your hurrying off to be somewhere but making sure we had some lovely doors pictures to see was a special gift, Norm.
The brass, red and other doors were beautiful! Hope you had a fun Valentine’s Day, friend!
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Thanks Robin. I’m hoping to explore this area more in warmer weather later this summer. Valentine’s Day was nice, thanks 🙂
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Glad to hear you had a wonderful time with wife and possible gathering close to this Bank Street. I look forward to the spring or summer doors from this quaint looking area, Norm.
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Great collection! My favorite is no.840.
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Thank you. Glad you liked it 🙂
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Lovely Street shots, I love the colours all very oldy worldly and then the splash of wall art ! The hotel looks fabulous in the real sense of the word very 1920’s. Art Nouveau. Great post thank you!! 😊
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Thank you. Yes that hotel dates back from the 1st quarter of the last century – good eye 🙂
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It’s absolutely gorgeous!!
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Excellent finds! Enough to put a smile on your face amidst that snow…
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Yes despite the blowing snow some of these were worth stopping and taking a few minutes to set up the shot 🙂
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oh that postbox is gorgeous . . . .also love the colour of the doors in the snow 🙂
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Thank you Becky 🙂
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