Photo post
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enismirdalNow I actually have a working camera and stuff, I thought I'd have some fun with it. The PlantSci picnic at the Botanic Gardens was an ideal opportunity! This is a very image-heavy post and I haven't resized them (most photos are about half a megabyte) so watch out slow connections
(All these photos and more can also been seen in my Photobucket album.)
As you go in, you pass the director's house. I think it's the director's house. That would make it where Professor Parker lives. In any case, it's a nice house and I'd happily live there myself!
And then into the gardens...
There's a pond, with ducks!
The Dawn Redwood is a treasure of the gardens. It was thought to be extinct and then they found a couple growing somewhere, I think, and the Botanic Gardens has two. It's an ancient species of tree.
Its needles are very soft.
The systematic beds were designed by the founder of the Botanic Gardens, John Stevens Henslow. They have the flowers grouped by order, family and genus.
The nasturtiums were very bright!
We had our picnic around here. Very relaxing and pleasant.
White flower (Cistus?) with a honeybee in.
Orange thing. This is me being a really good botanist and giving all the names!
Pink rose. (This is a present for Silda from Varyo...)
Yellow rose with insect in.
Thought this was cool.
Handkerchief tree?
A present for my dad. The plant he fondly names Boringus boringus.
A nice Gunnera.
Some sort of far eastern tree from the Moraceae.
A flower with a bee on. They like the blue ones as bees see blue best...
...but they also liked the nasturtiums.
Umbellifer of some variety, nothing terribly unusual, but it looked nice to photograph.
To compare the difference on Downing Street between buildings that have and haven't been sand-blasted...
St Botolph's church, built in the 1300s. St Botolph was the patron saint of travellers, and the church used to lie near the old city gate, so it was a place where travellers could pray for good fortune, I guess.
Trumpington Street, looking not terribly pretty.
Woodlark building (named after the bloke called Wodelarke/Woodlark, who founded the college), where I live! I've circled my windows. Yes, I have one and a half windows. There's a wall going down the middle of the window on the right and the other half belongs to my neighbour!
Finally, a glimpse of my wee small life! My little corridor in Woodlark.
Our kitchen is very...basic. But I've never got food poisoning from it yet, and it does the job. The junk is *not* mine, however; I would like to make that clear.
(All these photos and more can also been seen in my Photobucket album.)
As you go in, you pass the director's house. I think it's the director's house. That would make it where Professor Parker lives. In any case, it's a nice house and I'd happily live there myself!
And then into the gardens...
There's a pond, with ducks!
The Dawn Redwood is a treasure of the gardens. It was thought to be extinct and then they found a couple growing somewhere, I think, and the Botanic Gardens has two. It's an ancient species of tree.
Its needles are very soft.
The systematic beds were designed by the founder of the Botanic Gardens, John Stevens Henslow. They have the flowers grouped by order, family and genus.
The nasturtiums were very bright!
We had our picnic around here. Very relaxing and pleasant.
White flower (Cistus?) with a honeybee in.
Orange thing. This is me being a really good botanist and giving all the names!
Pink rose. (This is a present for Silda from Varyo...)
Yellow rose with insect in.
Thought this was cool.
Handkerchief tree?
A present for my dad. The plant he fondly names Boringus boringus.
A nice Gunnera.
Some sort of far eastern tree from the Moraceae.
A flower with a bee on. They like the blue ones as bees see blue best...
...but they also liked the nasturtiums.
Umbellifer of some variety, nothing terribly unusual, but it looked nice to photograph.
To compare the difference on Downing Street between buildings that have and haven't been sand-blasted...
St Botolph's church, built in the 1300s. St Botolph was the patron saint of travellers, and the church used to lie near the old city gate, so it was a place where travellers could pray for good fortune, I guess.
Trumpington Street, looking not terribly pretty.
Woodlark building (named after the bloke called Wodelarke/Woodlark, who founded the college), where I live! I've circled my windows. Yes, I have one and a half windows. There's a wall going down the middle of the window on the right and the other half belongs to my neighbour!
Finally, a glimpse of my wee small life! My little corridor in Woodlark.
Our kitchen is very...basic. But I've never got food poisoning from it yet, and it does the job. The junk is *not* mine, however; I would like to make that clear.
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Date: 24 Jun 2006 17:35 (UTC)Thank you for sharing your pictures! It is nice to see your surroundings!
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Date: 24 Jun 2006 17:54 (UTC)Hehehe, if you think that's Harry Potterish, you should see some of the colleges that have old-fashioned dining halls (the one used in HP is Christ Church College, Oxford)!
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Date: 24 Jun 2006 17:53 (UTC)and you have very nice hands!
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Date: 24 Jun 2006 17:55 (UTC)no subject
Date: 24 Jun 2006 18:44 (UTC)indeed.
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Date: 24 Jun 2006 20:56 (UTC)Piccies
Date: 24 Jun 2006 21:22 (UTC)the blue one that the bees like is forget-me-not.
Hmmmm, if it's not a dahlia, then....goes to books...
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Date: 24 Jun 2006 21:28 (UTC)Dahlia sounds plausible.
Hehehe, I guess it is forget-me-not-like...it looked a bit...big...for a common garden forget-me-not, but it makes sense. I wasn't paying much attention to names, just bees.
Was hoping to get a good picture of a common carder bee, but they moved even faster than the commoner white-tailed bees, so it was easier said than done!
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Date: 24 Jun 2006 21:36 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 6 Jul 2006 10:12 (UTC)Should I have met you in real life? I'm trying to think of any 3rd year Plant Scis called Vicky and failing - are you a second year or something different? Yay for meeting you on LJ, anyway!!
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Date: 6 Jul 2006 12:25 (UTC)Nope, I'm an ex-Plant Sci, graduated last year :)