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At OttawaStart, we have an automated Google search set up that sends us articles about Ottawa from around the blogosphere. Sometimes we get some strange stuff. Like this post from Steve Brandon: “photos I took today walking to and from Merivale Zellers to get my hair cut! ...

What are the chances? Last week, local photog Andrew Knapp sent us the photo on the left of lightning over Ottawa . A few days later, he stumbled on another photo online, with the exact same lightning strike – but from a different angle. ...

For the past two summers, local garden expert Rene Trim wrote a weekly column for OttawaStart about gardening. We’ve collected all of his articles – over 40 of them – and put them on our new Start Gardening page. Happy gardening! ...

Photographer Andrew Knapp sent us an amazing pic of lightning over Ottawa , from last Monday’s thunderstorm. He took the shot from a rooftop in New Edinburgh, looking west over downtown Ottawa. We’ve posted it on the front page of OttawaStart . ...

A sampling of blog posts about the Sens playoff exit: * The only thing I am certain of now is that Jacques Martin, Patrick Lalime, Alexei Yashin, and Radek Bonk were not responsible for the problems in previous playoff disappointments. ...

OttawaStart’s Ottawa Blog Guide is back up to date. We went through the list, deleting outdated and obsolete links, while adding about a dozen new entries based on your suggestions. Blog lists are a pain to keep current, with so many new blogs arriving every day – and so manny writers abandoning blogs when they get blogger boredom. ...

The City of Ottawa has released a report on the December 16th snowfall – that’s the one that took OC Transpo offline during morning rush-hour. Forty-eight buses on the Transitway got stuck, representing almost half of all Transitway bus traffic. ...

The Team 1200’s Steve Warne writes: Moonlight flooding has become amazingly therapeutic. It’s peaceful, cold and quiet outside, unlike my summers in Barrhaven. In summer, there are neighbours, kids, radios and the endless home and road construction. All you hear on the rink at night is the peaceful white noise of the water leaving the hose and the faint, yet curiously satisfying sounds of snapping and cracking as water hits ice. ...