Ottawa Traffic …

I came upon this traffic jam during my morning run.

 

It can be hard to get around in Ottawa this time of year.

 

 

These guys are everywhere.

 

 

It’s a never-ending stream – and once they get to the water side, they decide to come back to the grass side. On my way back there was a mom (a human mom!) sitting with her son and they were just watching and laughing at the goslings and the pedestrians and cyclists all dodging each other.

I like living in a city where this is the type of traffic encountered on a major route into downtown (this path runs East-West along the Ottawa River, linking the far west end – Kanata – with Parliament Hill and beyond, and many people use it to commute to work, year-round).

The other very Ottawa thing about my morning run is, as I was pausing to take these photos I ran into my son’s homeroom teacher cycling into school. We had an informal parent-teacher conference by the river and went our separate ways. That’s Ottawa – that’s totally normal – you see people you know all the time, everywhere. I have no idea how people get away with having affairs and otherwise misbehaving in Ottawa because somebody you know will see you – or they’ll run into somebody who knows you through their sister’s dentist’s brother-in-law – that’s just how it goes. And that, too, I kind of like.

One of the things I talked about with my son’s teacher is Mr. D – and that’s a post for the near future. Mr. D, and our family watching of it, and what else we watch as a family … stay tuned!