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I usually prefer cold weather to hot weather; my usual argument is that while there is a limit to how much you can take off, there is no limit to how much you can put on (well, maybe there is a practical limit, but most of the time, it’s beyond what is sufficient). Besides, I sweat really easily.

Nevertheless, I doubt if there was anyone who didn’t welcome the warm clear weather here in Northfield during the past week. Here are some pictures I have taken around the campus; they are also at the gallery, where I will post more as I take them:

Tree and top of Skinner Chapel

Tai-chi in the sun: People in Prof. Qiquang Zhao’s tai-chi class

Close-up of a bench that didn’t fare so well through the winter

A plane and its contrails against the clear Midwestern sky. If you look at the actual size, you will see how surreal the plane looks.

Rosie with Canoe House’s canoes

New flowers growing among dead foliage in the Canoe House lawn