going on home, October 17

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Walking on west.

My foot was bothering me (new shoes not a miracle, alas!), so I was looking for a drinking fountain so I could take some ibuprofen.

This is the alumni building, so I figured I was entitled..........





The wooden door under the yellow tree is in the bottom of Burton Tower.





Burton Tower, with Hill Auditorium to its left.





Looking right, Rackham. At first I didn't like the truck in my shot, but I decided that was reality -- the U goes through a bodacious lot of office supplies.....





Just to the left of the shot above, this will be a new fancy dorm complex thing, going in where the Frieze Building used to be. The Frieze building is one of the older buildings that the U did not save. It was built to be Ann Arbor's high school, and was bought by the U in the 50s when Pioneer High was built south of town.

I had French classes in the Frieze Building, and the term I taught introductory programming, my classroom and office were in the Frieze Building. I was sorry to see it go.





This bright little tree is near the south east corner of Rackham.





With my back to Rackham, we are looking south toward the Diag. The flagpole is on the north edge of the Diag, and the building you see in the middle in the background is the graduate library, which is on the south side of the Diag.





Heading west (90 degrees right of the prev), we go by the Modern Languages building. The last French class I took was in the MLB.

It has brick in the walkways outside.

When you fire ceramics in an atmosphere with a dearth of oxygen, the outside of the ware turns dark as the iron oxydizes (a "reducing atmosphere").

The inside stays whatever color it began. I liked the red inside the crack.....





New dormy thing, reflected in the MLB.





Rackham, on the side of the MLB, and new dormy thing in the nearer windows.





West side of MLB, with bikes.





The alumni building and Rackham are at the far eastern end of good old Washington Street, which is part of my usual route home.

Leaving the MLB, we walk west on Washington.

Horse chestnut.





Chrysanthemum. Right outside the former bank where Google now has offices. (Before it was a bank bank, it was Ann Arbor Savings and Loan. Then it was Ann Arbor Bank. Then it was bought out by some national chain bank, and now it is Google.....)





Another excellent Ann Arbor building.

Thank goodness people bother to take care of these!





Note space with lots of windows on top of newer building..... I'm imagining it's an apartment......

I like the newer building, too. The clean lines, the touches of red.....








My foot was bothering me enough that I decided taking the bus was the better part of valor.

So I did that, and, walking home from the bus stop, we pause to enjoy the newly-painted north side of the house. To quote Billy Crystal, it looks marvelous, absolutely marvelous........



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