The fall landscape is magnificent. The leaves turn all shades of red, yellow and orange, providing a sharp contrast to the dark blue of the Ottawa River and the St. Lawrence River. February Winterlude is a major festival celebrating the pleasures of winter. May Buffet Bon app tit in Prescott-Russell is a great opportunity to feast on delicacies and meet leading chefs, vegetable farmers and breeders of geese, partridge, quail, buffalo, red deer, Kathadin sheep and other unusual animals and fowl. The farmers and chefs spread out gourmet offerings made with local products under the big tent.
Painters are also on hand to exhibit and sell their work.
Walleye Festival on the Nation River. This is the time of year when all avid fishers are eager to get out on the river again. The Walleye Festival, the first event of the fishing season, is a popular favourite. June Franco-Ontarian Festival in Ottawa. Singers and entertainers invade the city's main parks for 10 days.