The other day one of my colleagues and I were looking through the box of Really, Really Oversized Materials and up turned this image, which I had never seen before. It’s pretty nice, I think. You can see all the pots, including the two fancy ones over by the Physics amphitheater. There’s a great view of the area in front of the Administration Building, complete with the wide gravel space and a manhole cover. There’s even a car on the road that leads to the Mech Lab. It’s dated 1921, which I totally buy.
But where was the photographer when he took this photo? In a tree? Hanging out a window of the Admin Building?
What? no dog? 😉
My guess is that he took it from the roof of Lovett Hall
Maybe there’s a dog in the car.
That’s a very good guess, by the way. I hadn’t thought of it.
I think the photographer is on the roof of the Administration Building in the far southwest corner. Aerial views show a little flat spot all around the otherwise sloping roof.
Yeah, I think this is right. I’m actually a little irritated by it, though. Surely if you drag yourself and your equipment up to the roof you’re going to take more than one picture. So what the hell happened to the others? And yes, I realize that my irritation is irrational.
No explanation for the tiny Italian Cypress second from the left?
Lol no, but I noticed it too.
The car is consistent with 1921-ish.
I think the roof of Lovett has to be right. I was struck by something in that picture I’d never noticed before when looking at the Physics building. Notice how the 2nd story area under the cupolas on the Lovett end looks like a face with an open mouth? One could even say it has a certain dog-like quality, with the cupolas being the upraised dog ears.
It looks, in fact, exactly like a dog.
Interesting. I do not remember Bud Morehead ever mentioning that in his talks or in his “walking tour” presentation. A new observation?
It do think it’s new.
My wife Linda says it is more like a coyote to her eyes.
OK, now I’m going to see that all the time. Thanks.
Pant insight into why the central section of the hedge is U trimmed? Given the precision with which the rest have been maintained, it is striking.
Autocorrect: “any” in place of “pant” and “untrimmmed” in place of “u trimmed”
Good question. I think it’s a different kind of hedge altogether. There’s somewhere I can look for that . . .
I agree with Melissa that the center hedges are a different plant. Are those flowers I see? A flowering hedge would not be trimmed to severe corners – you would take all the flower buds off.
If I’m looking correctly at what I think people are saying is a “dog” (or coyote!), I see a second one further down the facade of the building under the other cupola – symmetric dogs?