It may be hard to tell from these two pictures, but LSU has the most beautiful campus anywhere. Part of the beauty comes from the centuries-old oak trees and the other plantings. Mizzou brags about the campus being a botanical garden, and I saw evidence of that, but none of that was as impressive as the giant oaks standing sentinel all over campus.
The other aesthethic is the similiarity of the buildings. Most of the buildings are Italianate, beige stone with red-tiled roofs. Even the newest buildings are built in the same style. When I was at LSU in the late 1980's, two new buildings, CEBA and what we called the Classroom Building (now A.P. Tureaud Hall) were not built in the same style, but times have changed.
We tubed the Potomac. I managed not to destroy my camera.
Or drown anyone.
My cell phone battery died right before I went to the Gee's Bend quilt exhibit at the Walters in Baltimore. The quilts were certainly impressive from an artistic and stitchery point of view, but a person wonders who needs a corduroy quilt in South Alabama... even in a house heated only by a wood stove. And a person wonders who would keep an avocado green corduroy quilt long enough for it to become art.
