I'm much indebted to
Despite the filename, this is not actually a camelia. I don't know what it is, though perhaps my crazed botanist roommate does. It's very neat, though. The petals are arranged on the flower in a fibonacci spiral (the fibonacci numbers are: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, et cetera. Each number is calculated by adding the two before it.)
Here's a closeup of a pink whatever-it-is (the ones in the above photo are white) that
Here's the first spiral. It has 8 petals, and there are 5 sets of them.
Here's the second spiral. It is five petals, and curls in the opposite direction. There are eight of them.
(Many, many flowers are built around fibonacci spirals, as well as the scales on pinecones and pineapples. Snail shells. That kind of thing. Web page with pretty pictures (not mine) here. Nice pictures of a 13/21 pinecone)
I also wanted some pictures of Suzallo Library, the most interesting building on campus. Unfortunately, it is currently being retrofitted to make it more earthquake proof, thus blocked off by a chainlink fence and covered in scaffolding. This picture was obtained by claiming halfway up the fence, and then shooting over the scaffolding. I blame this for the crooked framing.
This one was from clambering around on an ugly pyramid/obelisk sculpture near the foot of the library. I need a zoom lens.
Harps are remarkably photogenic; I'm thinking I'd really like to do a photography project and just photograph the hands of a bunch of people upon the strings of my harp.
In the basement of the electrical engineering building is a robotics lab.
I find the place remarkably disorienting. I don't know where the walls are, how high the ceiling is, where I am, or anyone else. I can't pin down locations. Beyond the door to the anechoic chamber, I sense only an open gray void. I walk in anyway, because fascination is stronger than fear. Tap the raised walkways in front of me with my bare feet before proceeding.
When I get the pictures back from the developers, I stare at them, finally understanding what the chamber looks like.
A stand of bamboo growing near the music building. The wind shuffles softly through it, musical. The largest parts of each stalk make a lower-pitched note, and you can hear, as the wind sweeps two canes diagonally across eachother, the pitch of each rising, almost flute-like.
Vines at the base of
One of several pictures (four or five, I think) I took of sakura, blooming cherry tree. Honestly, none of them were any good. But I think this one is kind of neat, because of the faerie castle rising about the clouds of pink blossoms. (I think this may actually be the back of Godwin hall.)