Ottawa's Dandelion Festival

Funny piece from Larry Moran's Sandwalk blog, about Ottawa's annual Dandelion Festival:Every year in May there's a famous dandelion festival in Ottawa (Canada). People come from all over the world to see the millions of dandelions along the parkways and walkways throughout the city... The various governments in Ottawa take advantage of the dandelion festival to promote other festivals that are

Ottawa Tulips: 5,850 flickr photos and counting

We just added this great pic by local photographer Ray Pilon as our "Featured Photo" section on OttawaStart. It got us thinking: what are the most photographed events or locations in Ottawa?Here's what we found in a totally random sample of Flickr photos:ottawa maman - 493ottawa war memorial - 1,249ottawa war museum - 2,165ottawa byward market - 2,166 ottawa museum civilization - 2356 ottawa

OttawaStart's new Ottawa Golf Guide

Some housekeeping notes:Yesterday we introduced a new Ottawa Golf Guide on OttawaStart.We also renamed a couple of guides. The Traffic Guide becomes the Ottawa Driving Guide, and the Transit Guide becomes the OC Transpo Guide.As always, you can suggest great local web sites, blogs, etc. by visiting our Suggest A Site page.Related: Ottawa Sports Guide

Photos from the Police show

Check out these amazing photos of the Police show last night -- amazing because they were taken on a cell phone. Alec Saunders put his 5-megapixel Nokia N95 phone to the test, with great results.Related: Ottawa Music Guide

Cool Graffiti on Somerset

Check out some great photos today of graffiti on a wall on Somerset Street, from the Watawa life blog. Photographer Robin Kelsey shows us what happened after some old graffiti was painted over with beige...Related: Ottawa Photography Guide

Ask OttawaStart: How much tax do I pay when I fill up my tank?

We received this email from Tim, a visitor to OttawaGasPrices.com:"What is breakdown of the price per litre we pay at the pump? Specifically, how much is Provincial & Federal Tax?"That's a pretty common question these days as prices hover around the $1.20 per litre mark. The best answer we can find comes Fuel Focus, a web site created by Natural Resources Canada. The amount of tax varies from

It's snowing

The winter that never ends: the flurries are falling today, on April 30th.Related: Ottawa Weather Guide