Troy University Chancellor Dr. Jack Hawkins delivers his “high-touch” message in his welcoming remarks to SEJC convention goers at the Troy campus on Friday.
Emulating the Great Sign, Pine Lakes chose that Holiday Inn feeling, and it is nice to see it persisting. Though the M looks to be sliding off. I wonder if it is a new addition.
There are certainly plenty of pines. I wonder if they have a lake.
My new bike arrived while I was off traveling.
And here it is, assembled and ready for pedals and a ride. I’ll get to do that next weekend.
Did you notice the new picture across the top of the blog? That’s from the Troy campus. The appropriate changes have been made to the banners page.
Where we pad Sunday with pictures that never made it to the site. Poor, sad pictures. Don’t want their feelings to get hurt.
“Come to the blog on Sunday! Everyone looks pictures on Sunday!”
Yes, that one is small, but click the image to embiggen. This one has been sitting in my iPhone for a while. This is a parking lot in Homewood, Ala. Can you guess what I was doing there? Shot, and automatically stitched together by the free Panorama app. Not perfect, but, again, it is a panaroma shot from my phone. What an age.
Sunset over Auburn, Ala.
This will not be an inexpensive repair. Lesson: always counterweight your tripod.
Sometimes the sun catches you just right.
I love peanut butter as much as the next guy, but who needs six pounds of it at a time?
Church, read, studied, wrote, raked leaves. I have one of my four comps questions now sufficiently researched. (At least I hope.) Three more (all in various stages of progress) to go!
Come back tomorrow as I fret about two of those remaining questions.
But now, The Yankee and I are going out for early-Valentine’s Day/dating anniversary dinner.
Started snowing in Birmingham around 6 p.m. and didn’t let up, they say, until around midnight. It didn’t snow enough to cancel classes, but there had been a great deal of sledding in the wet stuff and the roads seemed to stay in good shape.
Not sure if it ever really got above freezing today. Everything seemed to stay in place, and the imagined stillness that comes with snow was a nice sight … to see from indoors.
Here are a few pictures from campus this afternoon.
Today was a day. This video was one of the nice highlights.
Also I had great conversations with two students, one just to chat, and the other to encourage. Those kinds of conversations seem to happen outside of the classroom, in a hallway or office. I really enjoy having that opportunity.
Otherwise things got accomplished. I am now only one phone call and one online form away from having all of the important small things off my To Do List. Lots of meetings and ponderings and talks and cameras and other things that somehow, remarkably, fill up a day. But that’s all mostly done for now.
Which means I can return to the important large things on my To Do List.
Also it snowed this evening over half the state. I’m just going to flip the calendar to March if that’s OK with everyone.
Just for fun: I’m having my lunches with Robert Remini’s The House, which is a history of the House of Representatives. I’m to the point now where Kentucky legend Henry Clay has come to Washington, but there were a few entertaining passages just before he arrived. One section noted that church services were held in the original, temporary parts of the capitol building. The Marine Band played along as church goers sang hymns. But that was discontinued because, as Remini quotes Margaret Bayard Smith, “it was too ridiculous.”
In Washington.
Also, he lists the congregations that worshiped there for a time. “Presbyterians, Methodists, Baptists, Episcopalians, an Anglican, a Unitarian (that caused an uproar).”
Oh, to be glib in history.
Tonight was a doo-wop night for my listening pleasure — the iPhone, when you get a good song, sounds like a good and proper transistor radio — but first I heard Linda Rondstadt. So we’ll end with a video, much as we began. We’ve marveled at science, we should wonder at art:
What do you suppose these are for? It has something to do with water drainage or re-routing or something like that. It is part of an elaborate repair and upgrade plan on a Samford building. It prompted a few interesting quotes in the paper this week.
“We’re not getting anything out of it. It doesn’t benefit any of the people living in it right now … It’ll benefit the freshman class of 2011.”
Well, then.
Step Sing, Samford’s big song and dance revue, is coming up. The cafeteria is covered in banners, which give you a hint of the shows you’ll see. I think I see a Journey bug back there. Don’t stop believin’.
Frozen roofs, warm hearts. It would only get colder.
Because it sleeted for hours and hours, covering the ground in ice, closing the campus and causing havoc on the city’s roads. This is my windshield after just a few minutes.
This is at Provino’s, the Italian restaurant in Auburn. it is date place, pretty good food, nice people. I took this picture to send to my mother. Apparently I did this as a child. “Look mama, see da hat!”
