Showing posts with label champaign. Show all posts
Showing posts with label champaign. Show all posts

3.29.2008

la luz





179 miles away. Champaign (named like a bubbly drink but not spelled the same) delighted me with light. Beautiful light hitting faces in subtle and moody ways. Thank you, Boltini.

2.02.2007

brown bag



When you visit the University of Illinois to speak at a brown bag lunch, they actually reserve you a parking spot with a brown bag. Very appropriate and, simultaneously, hilarious. Is this the only thing that stood between me and my many college parking tickets? I should have bought a brown bag ...

1.31.2007

a question



What do you make of this?

1.30.2007

corn for pops



I visited the Morrow Plots at the University of Illinois in honor of my father's birthday. It happens to be the oldest experimental field in the United States, established in 1876. When I called my dad to let him know where I was, he excitedly told me the oldest in the world was in England. And, lo and behold, guess where the third oldest experimental field in the world and second oldest in the United States is? Missouri - Sanborn Field at my alma mater. Thanks for the lesson, Dad.