(from yesterday) just finished

Sad to be done, glad to be done. Monticello this afternoon. But, as it happened, I had the naturally-shortest lab last, and with all our experience and missing people from our group who'd already left it went really quickly.

So I went out! It's clear and a little chilly today, but perfectly fine for someone who'd dressed for the freezing-cold lecture hall. I was curious about the campus cemetery I noticed on my walk in yesterday, so I went to check it out. It's a beautiful old place, not overly manicured, so I got to see lots of interesting plants: magnolia trees larger than I've ever seen, random bunches of chives, all the exact same weeds (European introductions, of course), slightly different violets, a lovely five-needle pine with such thin, soft needles that they even felt good on my face.

And monuments. ( Photos )