I’ve been researching old stone houses in the Nepean/Kanata/Stittsville area and was interested to see that this 1828 stone home known as “Charles Smith House” is for sale. It is a beauty, and could be yours for about $800,000. (Here’s the real estate listing. ...

Every day in December leading up to Christmas, local photographer Christophe Ledent will be sharing a photo and story about Ottawa Christmas lights. ( You can see all the photos so far here. ) You have probably driven beside this building dozens of times and never really noticed it. ...

_ A weekly feature from Christopher Ryan , a local photographer, blogger and researcher. It appears every Friday on our blog. _ [  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/011.jpg) Val Cartier Apartments, in the evening of September 22, 2013. Photo by Christopher Ryan Pictured above is the Val Cartier Apartments at 61 Cartier in the Golden Triangle. ...

Every day in December leading up to Christmas, local photographer Christophe Ledent will be sharing a photo and story about Ottawa Christmas lights. ( You can see all the photos so far here. ) Here’s a house on Deavy Way in Orleans. ...

Every day in December leading up to Christmas, local photographer Christophe Ledent will be sharing a photo and story about Ottawa Christmas lights. ( You can see all the photos so far here. ) [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Belcourt-2-of-5-.jpg) For day five, we make our way east to Orleans, more precisely Belcourt Boulevard. ...

[  ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/dewbridge/11138347136/) Fire in Her Eyes. Photo by [ Dan Dewan ](http://www.flickr.com/photos/dewbridge/11138347136/in/pool-ottawastart) from the [ OttawaStart Flickr Group ](http://flickr.com/groups/ottawastart) . Here are our contributors' picks for the best events in Ottawa this week. ...

Every day in December leading up to Christmas, local photographer Christophe Ledent will be sharing a photo and story about Ottawa Christmas lights. ( You can see all the photos so far here. ) For day four, we continue to explore Barrhaven. ...

[  ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/essential-ottawa-blogs.jpg) These are great Ottawa-based blogs that you MUST ADD to your reading list. There’s no set criteria for this list, only that they’re written by people in Ottawa who are passionate and usually a bit obsessive (in a good way) about the topics they write about. ...

Every day in December leading up to Christmas, local photographer Christophe Ledent will be sharing a photo of Ottawa Christmas lights on our blog. ( You can see all the photos so far here. ) For day three, we head south to Barrhaven. ...

_ Rose Simpson’s column appears every Tuesday morning on the OttawaStart Blog. She also blogs at Rose’s Cantina . _ _ _ [ ](http://ottawastart.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/rose-wedding.jpg) _ _ I’ve been married three times – not too proud of that – but I’ve never had one of those big weddings with poofy dresses, veils, a gaggle of attendants and the big hall. ...