Spring View from the Alumni Gardens

We had a glorious sunny day on Tuesday, except for the huge early-afternoon humdinger of a thunderstorm. But the days that followed have been misty, overcast, damp, and very, very green.

I treated myself to breakfast at the Corner Room on Wednesday morning, and then took a quick walk around the duck pond and the alumni gardens before catching a bus over to my office. I thought you might want to see what it looks like there.

This was the lovely view from the alumni gardens looking back toward the pretty white gazebo and the stone children statue whose official name is Olympic Wanna-Be's. (I think of their spot by the more poetic name of "the court of the stone children," which is actually the name of a book I read when I was a child.)

The tall, round, purple flowers in the foreground are allium, and they always look to me like adorable aliens. Allium, by the way, are actually members of the onion family. I enjoyed the bit of color they tossed into a very green landscape. The duck pond is to the right outside of scene; I did not see any mallard families or turtles, alas.

When I visited this same area on Tuesday morning, a girl with pink/purple hair (about the shade of the allium) sat reading a book quite charmingly by the duck pond; but she was not there on this day. Somehow, I missed her.

The soundtrack: James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt, One Morning in May.

Bonus: a summer view of the same scene from last June.

P.S. Oddly enough, in the linked posting, I talk about a problem with my Mazda: last summer, I hit a bad bump in the road and broke a part in the suspension. The same thing happened earlier this week, on the way home from visiting my parents on Sunday. So yeah, sadly enough, the Mazda is down for the count. Guess who's been riding the bus: yep, THIS GIRL!