Photos

This is one of the buildings on parliament hill in Ottawa. It was a rainy week-end and we were camping in the area and visiting Ottawa during the Tulip Festival.

"In the fall of 1945, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands presented Ottawa with 100,000 tulip bulbs. The gift was given in appreciation of the safe haven which Holland's exiled royal family received during the Second World War and in recognition of the role which Canadian troops played in liberating the Netherlands. The tulips have become an important symbol of international friendship and the beauty of spring. They also have special meaning to the people of Canada's Capital Region. During the war, the Dutch royal family was hosted at Government House in Ottawa. Princess Margriet was born at the Ottawa Civic Hospital. The floral gift that began in 1945 has established this region as "The Tulip Capital of North America".

Taken under an umbrella, at automatic since it wasn't easy to hold the camera and the umbrella. I had set the camera with higher saturaton as an experiment.

PP: straightened, resized, USM before posting.