We have had a couple of unnaturally warm days for early April. Ottawa was woken up early by flashes of lightning and the crash of thunder; the storms seemed to last from 4 until nearly 6 a.m. The river of course is fuller than ever now and a rather ugly, milky brown colour under the night sky and artificial lights. Not its usual appearance, more like the Assiniboine in Winnipeg than the Rideau in Ottawa at present.
Only yesterday I was thinking how low the river level seemed as we drove beyond Mooney's Bay in the southern part of the city. We had lunch at a big house near the Hunt Club bridge, whose garden sloped steeply down towards the river, ending in what our hostess called a "swamp" at the bottom. I'll bet it's swampier than ever tonight.
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