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Nov. 17th, 2009 11:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarienWe spotted a couple of black squirrels on the Stanford campus this lunchtime -- attractive little things; it's funny how the black fur trips the "Ooh, kitty!" circuits. A bit of googling suggests that they are either a separate species called fox squirrels or (maybe less likely) a melanistic version of the common gray squirrel which some web-authorities claim doesn't exist in California. They acted very like regular squirrels, of the people-habituated urban variety; they skittered off up a tree when we approached, but not with any great urgency, and we got the feeling that they might not have been averse to an offer of peanuts or apple-cores.
We also spent a few minutes quietly viewing the inside of the Memorial Church. It's as gaudy on the inside, with lots of gilding and technicolor stained glass, as it is on the outside; I've never seen anything like it, though admittedly my experience with the inside of mainstream churches is not wide, being mostly confined to the rather faded, time-worn interiors of historic British cathedrals, which lost most of their more opulent decoration in the Reformation.
We also spent a few minutes quietly viewing the inside of the Memorial Church. It's as gaudy on the inside, with lots of gilding and technicolor stained glass, as it is on the outside; I've never seen anything like it, though admittedly my experience with the inside of mainstream churches is not wide, being mostly confined to the rather faded, time-worn interiors of historic British cathedrals, which lost most of their more opulent decoration in the Reformation.
