While I had two classes doing a creative writing exercise outside, I took advantage of the time and weather to stroll around the Sheldon Art Gallery's sculpture garden. I really wanted a donut, but I refrained. Art and nature, a winning combination without saturated fats.
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| Crabapple |
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| The previous sculpture from the front. |
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| Pasque flower. |
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| Redbud and dogwood being horizontal. |
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| A moving piece tucked behind a hedge. |
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| Redbud |
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| I like the color and textures. |
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| Front steps. |
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| Even the manhole covers are artistic here. |
It's a pretty campus in spring filled with flowering shrubs and trees galore. In the fall and winter the birds have a grand ole time with berries. Now, if only some of the unused lawn spaces could be patches of prairie. I dream of one day teaching a writing class that uses knowledge of plants--names and medicinal properties and folklore. Maybe taking field trips to gardens and reserves, crossing with other departments. That'd be fun.
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