Tuesday

The lack of substantial entries over the weekend didn't reflect anything dire -- just a couple of days of necessary vegetating.

The weather has turned a bit more wintry, with a touch of frost overnight, but the sun still shines and flowers are appearing all over the campus. I've seen suburban gardens/yards smaller than the patch of flowering aloes outside Old Main. The pansies are a riot of bloom, and the white alyssum edging the beds already gives off a heavy, sweet scent.

The campus is not a safe place for large pieces of sculpture; if they look even remotely like playground equipment, the students will destroy them, I think more through overenthusiastic play than malice. It happened last week to a couple of large chicken-wire pieces, one of which has had to be sent back to the artist, having 'lost its integrity as a work of art.'

Hanging begonia

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Originally uploaded by ellarien.

This is an old one from the summer, but I just put it up on Flickr, and it occurred to me that some of you might perhaps find it cheering.

It was all part of the Entente Florale effort; baskets of begonias dangled from an old pergola near the park entrance, with a carpet-bed of vivid reds and oranges in front.