Well the Tulip festival kicks off today until the 14th I believe. Its going to have thousands of tulips with buskers and concerts and other entertainment, weather permitting, bf and I are going on Sunday, but we will be going at some point if it is raining on the weekend, so I'll post some pictures when I take them :)

Have fun and hopefully the weather will be good :)
It is raining and cold again in London but I was in Venice last week where I got sunburned!

A Tulip festival!!!It would be very nice,so many colours!!Have great time and take many photos :)

Well Im going today, it rained most of the day yesterday and I was afraid it would continue into today. Its not as warm out as I woudlve liked (only going to be 12*C) but I'll make due :)

12 degrees! LOL thats freezing for me. Its 19 here right now and in the shade im cold.

I hope the tulip festival is good. Looking forward to seeing the photos of it :)

Well I took a LOT of pictures today lol. Some of them looked so much better on my camera than when I uploaded them. Either way, Im still fairly pleased. We went to a place called Major's Hill Park where they were supposed to have a whole bunch of things going on today, but we were in line to get in and a lady informed us a bunch of the stuff wasnt going on. So we went onto Parliament Hill and went to visit the Parliament cats (here's some info/explanation about the cats http://www.occdsb.on.ca/~sel/cyberpal/cats.htm ). Took some pictures there and then went off to Dow's Lake where they had over 300,00 tulips and I took a whole bunch of pictures there, so I weeded through them and pulled out the best.. so here you go :). Bare with me, Ive got some links to places for info on a picture or two.

Pictures from Parliament Hill

Center block of the Parliament bldng (not very good but I decided to post)
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture001.jpg

The clock on the Peace Tower. I believe its modelled after Big Ben
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture024.jpg

This is the library at the Parliament bldng. You can see the top half of the architecture looks different/newer. They just finished rebuilding it because in 1916, the Center Block caught fire and the library was burned down. Theres some info here about halfway down http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliament_Hill
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture019.jpg

A Statue of either Jacques Cartier or Samuel de Champlain
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture021.jpg

It was feeding time for the cats but I could only manage to get one because there were so many people
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture007.jpg

Teepee
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture004.jpg

Dow's Lake Tulips.

Lonley tulip--one of 2 bloomed in a group of at least 300
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture073.jpg

Orange
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture063.jpg

two-tone
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture059.jpg

Yellow and purple
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture056.jpg

All different colors
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture050.jpg

Pink amongst the white
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture045.jpg

Blowing in the wind
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture047.jpg

pink and yellow
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture041.jpg

more pink and yellow
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture032.jpg

My favorite, a closeup of the lonley tulip
http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f39/algovettech/Picture075.jpg

Very nice photos,colors everywhere!!i have never seen a yellow and perple tulip,it's very nice.
I also like the photo with the Teepee and it's reflection.
I think the Parliament looks very similar to the partliament in London.
Thanks for sharing :)

Sophia, I believe the Parliament here was created to look like the one in London

I didn't know that.Both of them are beautiful,we have not buildings like these here :)

Great photos Shannon :D

I love the one of the lone tulip and those red and yellow ones are so striking :D The last one is gorgeous. Looks like it should be on a Halmark card.

Great pictures! the tulips on the hill are so nice. There won't be many left if this wind keeps up:D

Great pictures! the tulips on the hill are so nice. There won't be many left if this wind keeps up:D

NO kidding, i was walking a dog this morning at work and my umbrella broke in the wind

It always seems to happen just when my apple tree and ornamental jade are out in full bloom the wind blows all the bloosoms away:mad: