Picture featured on a Russian soccer website, early 2014. With a click-through to Flickr. Thanks!
Thursday September 10, 2009 — Chapel Hill, NC.
This structure, built 1851, is considered by many to be the most beautiful building on the UNC campus. It is judged a masterwork of the early 19th century New York architect, Alexander Jackson Davis. Originally built as a combination library and ballroom, it later housed the chemistry and law faculties. Finally a theater, it presented many folk dramas and original works, especially after its remodeling in 1924.
In the design, architect Davis substituted wheat and Indian corn (maize) for the usual acanthus leaves in his Corinthian capitals. Earlier, in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, architect Benjamin Latrobe did a similar thing, designing some of the column capitals on the lower level to incorporate corncobs and tobacco leaves, in place of the traditional acanthus, in his newly invented "American orders".
A persistent but unsubstantiated campus legend has it that the horses of the Michigan Ninth Cavalry were stabled in the library after the Civil War. This stimulated the story that, since then, Michigan horses have been known for their intelligence and Carolina students for their horse sense.
Read lots more about the building here--see my additions in the caption section:
www.flickr.com/photos/melystu/7798979436/
Here's more:
www.unc.edu/interactive-tour/landmarks/playmakers-theater/
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Shot in another summer. . . . garden tomatoes, lemon thyme, and the big leaves of Richter's Sorrel.
Here's a link to this unusual sorrel which doesn't go to seed and produces large lemon-y leaves year after year with no care. "Profusion" is the apt name.
www.richters.com/Web_store/web_store.cgi?product=X5683&am....
Frame from BigHugeLabs.com. . . ."Reflection"
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A little music at lunch break~! This group of friends all work for the university--they like to get in a little practice when they can--passersby have the benefit!
Frame by Aviary on Flickr--"Grit".
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On campus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
More here:
fountain.unc.edu/
Subtle frame by Aviary~
OLYMPUS SP500UZ.
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Cosmos bipinatus, in the light breezes of midday. .
In my garden, September, five years back. . . . none this year, sadly. I see I'll have to remember these!
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