(from yesterday) just finished
Mar. 11th, 2012 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jinianSad 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.
Notable mainly for the implication. She would be at least 106 now.
These two tombstones were outside the cemetery proper, so I wondered what they were. Mascots apparently do not warrant sacred ground. I wonder if they've stopped having mascots, or if there's some other reason no more were there.
Traces of life.
Evidently did not believe in taking her husband's name. From someone who lived only into the 50s, that's pretty cool.
Interestingly broken, and the pieces seem to be of different ages.
I liked the book so came to read it. He made me laugh, which I imagine is what he wanted.
The only monument in this style in the whole place. Lovely.
There were also some very recent-looking markers and a monument for Confederate soldiers. "Fate denied them victory" but they got eternal life, etc.
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.
Notable mainly for the implication. She would be at least 106 now.
These two tombstones were outside the cemetery proper, so I wondered what they were. Mascots apparently do not warrant sacred ground. I wonder if they've stopped having mascots, or if there's some other reason no more were there.
Traces of life.
Evidently did not believe in taking her husband's name. From someone who lived only into the 50s, that's pretty cool.
Interestingly broken, and the pieces seem to be of different ages.
I liked the book so came to read it. He made me laugh, which I imagine is what he wanted.
The only monument in this style in the whole place. Lovely.
There were also some very recent-looking markers and a monument for Confederate soldiers. "Fate denied them victory" but they got eternal life, etc.
