Trees on Campus

 

Pomona College offers this image of
Stover Walk as a background for video calls.

There was significant loss from January's wind storm.

Very large holes appeared,

followed by newly planted trees.

It will be a while before there is full shade again, but it was nice to see progress.

So Many Yard Signs

This lot has been empty for as long as I have been here.
A local retirement community owns it and would like to build
housing for those who have experienced homelessness (their words).

There are dueling signs and dueling websites. Pro-housing site here and anti-housing site here.

"Protect Our Students and Seniors"
This seems odd because it is the seniors who
own the land and are trying to build the facility.

Stay tuned.

Testing

 

The school was so short-staffed I got to
proctor an exam in the staff room.

Classic clock, but it didn't work.

I passed the time looking at books.

This really was fascinating!

The difference of the squares of alternate Fibonacci
numbers is always a Fibonacci numbers!

It brought back good memories to see the conference proceedings
from the Claremont Reading Conference hosted by
the George C. Stone Center for Children's Books.

June Leftovers

 

early summer flowers

a sad rummage sale because there were so
many treasures that needed a good home
and no one was there to buy them

enormous bird of paradise

good thing I needed only one parking spot
since the rest were filled

Sad Post

 

before (from google maps)

now

Maybe the one on the left fell? But I was sorry to see the loss, especially at the beginning of summer.

Garden Tour

I feel too voyeuristic when I go on house tours, which is why I have loved that Claremont Heritage has created video tours. I feel perfectly comfortable going on garden tours, which is kind of funny since I don't like to garden.

I invited two friends who do like to
garden and we all had fun poking around.

Here are some highlights.

This garden had a couple dozen artichokes.
I am proud to say that I did not pick any!

The pool had been converted to a koi pond and the prayer
flags prevent birds of prey from swooping down to catch the fish.

Maybe this was the only house with grass.

Not part of a garden, but this family
showed how they had converted
the garage to a playroom. Wow!

This is what I aspire to have something like this.

Just the right amount of voyeurism for me!

Gate Post

 We had two simple gates by our house.

We had had them rebuilt before but they were not sturdy. After years of talking about it we finally hired someone to make new ones.

We think they were worth the wait!