Charlotte Makes Photos

Last-last Saturday (October 24)¹, since Kathleen was out thrifting with a good friend, I decided that I would go on a more traditional walk on my own. The weather continued to be lovely — clear, sunny, and not that cold — so it was going to be the two rolls of Fuji Provia 100F I had in the fridge. We were at the height of our Fall colours, and what better way to record that than slide film.

With some great music in my ears, I decided that I would take a slow meander through the more tree’d neighbourhoods, including the Glebe, “Glebe Annex”², Little Italy, and eventually into Hintonburg. My walking goal in the end was to get to the final regular instalment of Vegans Who Snack, which is held at Parkdale Market.

Since I was out for Fall colours, it wasn’t the most artful or creative of photographic days and I had to restrain myself from exposing 72 frames of red and orange leaves. For this first roll, it covers my walk between home and the very edge of the Glebe, at Bronson and Powell.

This part of Bronson will always hold some memory for me. When I moved here in 2000, we took the Bronson exit from the highway to move my and my things into Glengarry Residence (known very-much-not-affectionately as Glencatraz) at Carleton. Since it was the first time any of us had been to Ottawa, I know we were all eyes-wide-open at our surroundings as we drove down the arterial toward campus.

1. I’ve been falling behind; making, developing, scanning, and editing photos much more quickly than I have been inspired to write about them. Or at least about what I was up to at the time. ↩︎
2. Like “Golden Triangle” (where I live), the “Glebe Annex” is one of those real estate terms designed to manifest certain changes in the neighbourhood by association. Just as the Golden Triangle is that part of Centretown that became most thoroughly gentrified in the 1970s, the Glebe Annex is made up of two parts: south of Carling is a suburban development from the 1940s on what was once a lumber pile adjacent to Dow’s Swamp Lake; and north of Carling is was that part of what was once the working class Mount Sherwood neighbourhood more permanently cut off by the construction of the elevated Queensway in the early 1960s. ↩︎