IU Campus in the summer

The nice thing about summer is that the student population is very low (compared to the school year), so you can actually take a few pictures that don't have several thousand people in them.  I walked around campus this morning and snapped a few shots of buildings that I don't have any good pictures of.  This is the Student Building rendered in HDR using Photoshop.

A classmate no one remembered.

I accompanied my wife to her 50th class reunion this weekend.  The weather was great (but hot) and she found that all of her classmates are now old.  I found this guy outside finishing up the buffet dinner (actually he and four of his friends), but I don't think he graduated with the rest of the class.

Thyme for the blossoms

Last winter I showed what the leaf of my thyme looked like.  It is now blooming (in the garden, not the garage!) so I decided to look at the flowers.  They are lovely (as are most flowers).  One wonders what pollinates these guys--the one flower is probably 1.5mm wide.

Learn to uncross you eyes and you can see it in 3D.

Burnet

This is why I like microscopes!  Burnet is a neat herb that I have grown in the garden for the past few years (it is a perennial) although I really haven't used it as a spice in cooking.  The rabbits tend to keep it well trimmed in the spring so I put a wire cage around it to protect it this year.  I saw the flowers yesterday and brought one in to see what they looked like up close.

Here it is in side-by-side stereo:

Tomatoes!

It's funny how you go out each day looking for the first tomatoes to set.  I think this is early for tomatoes, but perhaps not.

Last year was terrible for tomatoes, so perhaps this is a good sign.

Smell (and look at) the lavender

Lavender (Lavandula) is a wonderfully aromatic plant.  According to Wikipedia the lavenders are a genus of 39 species of flowering mints found worldwide.  Not only do the smell good, but the flower spikes are rather attractive.

Each of the little purple shapes is a bud for the flower, which is kind of neat closeup.  Below is a side-by-side  stereo of the flowers.

If you can't uncross your eyes for the above, here is the red/green anaglyph (not nearly as good as the side by side!).

Gopher Purge

I have had this in the garden for several years now, not so much for it reported ability to keep moles and gophers away, but because it is a neat looking plant.  I didn't think much about it until this year when it over wintered and suddenly "flowered" (if you can call these things flowers!).

I will certainly collect the seeds from this one for replanting next year, but I don't really think it works.