Pope and phone

I've been stuck in the house today, feeling rather wretched - something I ate, I think. Anyway, it's a fine time to practice guitar and resize photos for posting. These are a few photos of building that struck my eye en route to the Hill back in early May. The first is my neighbour Pope House, a heritage property that is home to the National Association of Friendship Centres.

The crenelated section over the doorway is a bit of medieval hangover.


Pope House, 275 MacLaren St., Ottawa, May 7

A Hydro Ottawa substation on Slater. I suspect that if they built one today it wouldn't boast such a handsome design - good proportions, and a charming facade even with the grafitti.


Hydro substation, Slater St., Ottawa, On. May 7

A wall of green glass, courtesy of the famously green TD Canada Trust banking empire. (The building on the right is Manulife Place, if memory serves).


TD Canada Trust Building, Albert St. and Metcalfe Ave., Ottawa, May 7

The Bell Canada building. Shrinking this photo created the striped pattern - the larger version has a different appearance. For a psychedelic experience, load the larger JPEG into whatever graphics program you have on your computer and gradually shrink and magnify it.


Bell Building, Elgin St. and Lisgar Ave., Ottawa, May 7

The weather is turning nice - I'll have to try more photography out and about the town.