On the way in to campus at midday I noticed we are at a particularly dynamic moment in the leaf turn. There are three photos below. All taken on the same road. All of them were also taken with the same time stamp. But look at these many different beautiful colors.
Slowly and then suddenly around here. And 72 degrees today, too, and even warmer this weekend. (The first sunny weather weekend we’ve had in quite some time.) It’ll be a good time to get out and enjoy all of the beautiful, colorful scenery.
There are a lot of quotes about the glories of autumn. A lot of them. And all of them are accurate, in their own ways. But there’s still at least one quote about autumn yet to be uttered …
“Why can’t this magical season stay until March?”
In class today, we watched commercials the students produced. The products varied. Some were real things, others were made up. Some were a bit spur-of-the-moment, which didn’t necessarily take away from the quality. Many of them were funny. A few were quite spectacular. Students, of an anti-commercial generation, applauded one another’s work. That was quite charming.
And then we talked about Adobe Audition for a good long while. This is the sound editing program, the Digital Audio Workstation.
I think, having watched them through the demonstration, that most of them don’t appreciate sound to the same extent that I do. They’ll come around.
Yesterday, I rode by the mysterious building with the uplifting quotes painted on the wall facing the road. I’d never notice this in my car. I probably wouldn’t be on that road in my car, actually. And I certainly would be going to fast to read them.
On my bike, though … well I go fast enough on my bike that i had to see them three or four times before I could read them all. But I ride my bike on that road from time to time, and I wanted to take these photos. And today’s as good a day as any to share them.
I think there is one or two quotes missing from this mini-collection, but these are the best ones.
The building belongs to an agricultural concern. They sell seed and seed treatments, fertilizer and application services, crop protectants and such. It’s not a local company, but a nationwide business headquartered in Tennessee. I can’t say for certain, but I assume the quotes predate the current company.
Either way, the business has quotes like this on their buildings nationwide, or the local/regional management saw this and thought, This absolutely needs to stay.
Whoever made that call, they were correct.
Main Street should maintain all of the old charm and character a town has to offer, and this little town figured that out long ago. It’s a charming thing.
