neighbourhoods

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/IMG-20110430-00066.jpg) The garage sale assault will not be televised. Photo by [ Glen Gower ](http://about.me/glengower) . While all of our garage sale attention was focused on [ The Great Glebe Garage Sale ](http://ottawastart. ...

[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve-brandon/423479322/) Photo by [ Steve Brandon ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/steve-brandon/423479322/) , used by permission. Yes, this is actually happening. Not a joke, apparantly. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/experience.png) Exhibit A: The Veteran Great Glebe Garage Sale Warrior. Photo by [ @ottguy ](http://twitpic.com/53nwfa) , used by permission. I would have liked to have been at the [ Great Glebe Garage Sale ](http://ottawastart. ...

[ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Outside_-_side-1.jpg.scaled1000.jpg) _ (Photo by Dennis Van Staalduinen.) _ Check out this fascinating web site about The Champlain Oaks . It tells the story of two dozen trees in Ottawa’s Champlain Park neighbourhood, near Island Park Drive. Some of them are estimated to be more than 200 years old, and are the descendants of a huge oak forest that would have covered the South shore of the Ottawa River before this area was settled. ...

We’re clearing out our “items to blog” file tonight. Here are three recent items seen on David Reevely’s Ottawa Watch Greater Ottawa blog that deserve a mention: ** ** 1. [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/Google-Maps_1195262386859.png) Mapping Ottawa: David McLelland has started a very colourful Google map showing Ottawa's neighbourhoods. ...