Ten Pics 2009

This and That, Here and There

Ever so often I have to go through my camera and clear out the odds and ends. Let's begin in downtown Northampton with this photo of the Daly Building.

The sun strikes a sunflower on State Street. 

Congressman Neal has been on the cover of the Valley Advocate this week. I'm getting sick of seeing him everywhere.

Pop's Packy at dusk.

Haymarket street singer.

Downtown Amherst street singer. 

The addition to the science building at UMass looks both new and old at the same time.

 



Here's radio host Monte Belmonte at the Amherst Survival Center today.

Back off City Boy.

Up against the wall motherfucker!

Sean Lennon and friends doing his dad's song proud.

 

Three Libraries

Another Rainy Day

Today I went to three libraries. The first was the Robert Frost Library at Amherst College.

Inside is this bust of the poet Robert Frost, a teacher at Amherst College after whom the library is named.

The rain to the wind said,
'You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.

— Robert Frost

I was also at the UMass Library. I never use its official name because I disapprove of it.

Someone knocked over the cigarette disposal thing in front.

What a mess for the staff to clean up! 

I also went to the library at Hampshire College, which is also located in Amherst.

Love is in the air at Hampshire - or at least on the ground by the picnic table. 

At the Hampshire College bus stop, at first I didn't notice this smeared graffiti. Then I realized it said, DON'T TAKE MY PANTS OFF, DAD.

 



Is that some kind of sick joke or a genuine cry for help?