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cipating the havoc it would cause with google the original downtown of london in canada with its grand first homes is across the river and further south coming up from town to the university you would know you had arrived when you crossed the bridge and were greeted by university college built in the 1920 s university college is a massive building embedded on the high ground and dominated by a castle like lookout tower university college recently underwent a massive 34 million renovation with details available here renovations from the inside out also included new gardens and outdoor seating which replaced a car parking lot some trees around the building were also removed to increase the amount of interior light especially on the left side of the tower undisturbed by the work is an extensive collection of planted trees it is possible to stroll the immense lawn to middlesex college under a shady avenue of amazing maples walnuts oaks chestnuts and others looking back toward university college fall 2021 in this area are some of the first trees planted on campus i think the photo below might be of the famous self seeded apple tree that is thought to have predated the campus it appears to have had a long life and despite its diminished appearance it is maintained and kept on site near university college is this the oldest tree on campus the long view toward the main campus after the bridge entering the main campus september 2021 from across the bridge exiting the residence row april 2018 author michelle hatzel posted on june 14 2022 may 22 2022 categories buildings gardening tags landscape london ontario western university campus leave a comment on university college on the high ground of campus the watching faces of the physics astronomy building after introducing jane s garden in last post i wanted to share another building on campus that has gained an addition to its old form it is the physics and astronomy building sadly for it sharing a corner on campus with the impressive university college that looks like a castle and middlesex college with a gothic style clock tower the original natural sciences building seems a little plain at a distance this changes however when you get up close considered the better built of the campus s two 1920 s buildings the physics and astronomy building is filled with quirky details you have to search for to find opened in 1924 the original natural sciences and university college buildings are the two oldest academic buildings existing at western today when we arrive at physics and astronomy 98 years after its opening we are greeted by a set of original carved faces like the one shown above on the featured image the carved heads appear only as dots along the lower banks of windows flanking the front entry there is a bit of information about the carvings posted inside the building shown below each of the side doors and the main entrance are also decorated with equally surprising carvings a closer look at one of the smaller side doors is shown above we can see leaves flower buds a sun with a face and is the middle one in the bottom photo to the left a pie like the biological and geological sciences building the physics and astronomy building contains an inner courtyard but here a 25 million renovation in 2012 converted the space to make it interior to the building much of the exterior façade was kept the new space serves for functions and events and there are a small number of tables for students to use in the featured image at the top we see four rows of windows the lower one appearing to sink into the ground from where the interior photos were taken seen below we are in the middle of the building on the second level in the next photo we can see down to the lower floor and the top of the photograph shows a staircase leading to the upper levels the last photo shows the upper level exterior landscape renovations were completed in 2021 connecting the exterior space of university college and physics and astronomy is a large pedestrian avenue with exterior seating sources wikipedia author michelle hatzel posted on june 6 2022 may 22 2022 categories buildings photo galleries tags london ontario photography 1 comment on the watching faces of the physics astronomy building anywhere a garden the western university campus has an amazing collection of trees i showed off two magnolias in a recent post the perennial collection on the other hand has fallen victim to digging squirrels and foraging geese so often what comes up also disappears before much happens more successful gardening happens in raised beds like the purple and white tulips at university college or on the wall below tulips in school colours at university college building may 16 2022 university of western ontario november 10 2021 and hidden away in the shelter of the biological and geological sciences building is jane s garden it is a secret spot that one finds only if happening past it sheltered amidst the building itself it is a fully enclosed outdoor space jane s garden named for dr jane bowles a former biologist and professor at uwo as can be seen in the photo above the walls suggest the space was not fully enclosed when the building was first erected and that a later addition caused the garden s separation from the exterior of the campus this is not entirely uncommon at uwo where one mode of expansion has been to annex outdoor spaces that formerly separated buildings and join them together here the space was not made part of the indoors but became a garden protected by multi storied walls anyone familiar to gardening has probably observed that a particularly well sheltered spot can serve to cultivate plants that normally do not thrive in the given climate zone i suspect this is the case here as well given that spring flowering snow drops appeared around march 18 and then in the rest of london a few weeks later so perhaps it should not have been so surprising to see that redwood trees have been growing here according to wikipedia the dawn redwood is known by fossil record to have grown in the northern hemisphere and was thought to be extinct when only a few specimens were discovered in china in the 1940s seeds were collected and distributed to botanical gardens throughout china and world wide today it is an endangered species in the wild but has been preserved through cultivation these photos were taken on march 18 and april 30 i will try to share some updates over the summer author michelle hatzel posted on may 30 2022 may 22 2022 categories buildings gardening photo galleries tags gardens london ontario photo series leave a comment on anywhere a garden magnolia i had never seen one in real life so it is a guess that i am making that this is a magnolia tree i think the images on wikipedia match well enough to say this is probably correct this was not a tree i noticed in the previous seasons but when i saw it blooming on the afternoon of my last exam in april it became the thing i remember clearest of this term s finals after a particularly exhausting last test i left the exam room like one leaves a shopping mall or movie theatre i had been in a windowless room entering it from a cool and rainy spring morning and emerging into falling snow the spring weather was similar to the typical london autumn snow with snowflake clusters so large they slide from the sky rather than twirl and spin on the thermal currents out of sync with it i felt i had emerged into a different season then walking to the bus stop i saw what i thought were suspended snow clusters refusing to fall snow balls hanging mid air it took a bit to process but there it was these marvelously large white flowers emerging in a landscape of bare branches and late spring snow falls i had my introduction to magnolias and a later flowering pink variety the buds are perhaps 1 5 inches tall according to wikipedia magnolia is an ancient genus with plants of this family existing in fossil records as old as 95 million years they have existed longer than bees and it is hypothesized that their flowers evolved to be pollinated by beetles author michelle hatzel posted on may 24 2022 may 22 2022 categories gardening photo galleries tags london ontario magnolia photo series spring 2 comments on magnolia spring this year i am staying in eastern canada for the summer exciting i am a garden enthusiast and moving into a new biome means there is a lot to explore in both the cultivated and natural world according to the map below my current area is temperate broadleaf forest compared to other photos on the blog that come from an area called temperate steppe warm weather flowers and greenery has come to london much sooner than my home city in the canadian prairies which experienced snow flurries yesterday however my husband did send recent photos of the tulips blooming so things are waking up back home as well world vegetation map by ville koistinen on wikipedia first thing to notice is that with the milder london winters spring flowering bulbs and corms are more diverse here try as i did in my early gardening years there is no way i could get daffodils in the featured image or the saffron bearing crocus to grow in my prairie garden these are all common in southern ontario where london is located some of the early spring delights from about five weeks ago on april 12 2022 tulip crocus chionodoxa behind a fence chain link accounts for the strange blurry lines in the foreground a week later a minor set back to warm weather outside weldon library uwo tulips in snow april 19 2022 author michelle hatzel posted on may 21 2022 categories gardening photo galleries tags london ontario photo series spring flowers 2 comments on spring continuity it may seem that for canadians the world of war and political conflict is far away this is a fact that often leads people to make this country their home to hope for the safety and prosperity of their children and to look forward to a long and peaceful old age but when violence erupts in other parts of the world and we experience our connection to it we are reminded again of how the majority of us living in canada now have our ancestry in places outside our country in recent years it feels like so many people in my life are grieving for friends and families displaced or killed in other places or worried for them i chose this post s topic in consideration of how much disruption irresponsible leaders unleash on the world currently several of my courses have included some type of study on population growth decline what i see in the overall story of humans is that despite the death and suffering they inflict on so many people dictatorships with their big wars and the bankrupt economies they create are unable to make any significant change they do nothing to disrupt the underlying patterns of life they are meaningless to history once those they harm are gone canada goose on a roof of the geological sciences section of the natural sciences buildings western university uwo london ontario march 2022 in london ontario at this time of year one such reminder albeit not human is the canada goose it was noisy on campus last week a constant reminder of the continuity of life as i will explain on monday i set one rule while on campus i would take a picture of every goose on a roof that i encountered to try to keep with the rule i eventually had to stay inside as much as possible because it took a lot more time from the day than i expected university college building uwo western university is home to year round geese residents during the fall and winter they are rather docile they travel in large groups usually grazing across the lawns when the oak trees drop their acorns the geese converge to the sidewalks under these trees shortly after every class change the crowds of students walking across the seeds breaks open the shells and the geese rush in to take them the day began with this loner calling out another honker at mid morning by the afternoon pairs began to form four geese claim some of the engineering buildings an oak tree at talbot college building with a scattering of acorns fall 2021 click on an image to enlarge some of the birds aren t visible in the gallery layout at this time of year the birds begin their fight for territory and mates and start to pair off one way to attract a potential partner is to claim a roof and commence the noisy mating call process by friday the birds had begun to settle down but very soon the nests and the eggs will happen and then goslings at this point it is not uncommon for students to be attacked by ground and by air should they enter goose occupied zones the food truck that pays homage to the uwo geese population do you see the two bosses looking down from above author michelle hatzel posted on march 24 2022 categories journal tags canada goose spring western university 4 comments on continuity oscillations writing teaches us many things and the necessity of patience is foremost we must wait with our story be patient to learn its ending we must be compassionate with our characters be patient to learn who they are we must manage our expectations about our narrative skills be patient as we practice almost endlessly it seems be patient with how much we do how fast we work protect the creative energy it may seem that we are always waiting never fully reaching the thing we are trying to get to but when it comes it can come fast the story rushing at us overwhelming and leading us to wish it away again in these past two years none of us has really known what the next year will be like or the next month or week the uncertainty crawls into the belly lives like a parasite in our guts meanwhile in our most human and paradoxical mind we struggle with the everyday mundaneness of living working studying cooking eating reading fighting loving sleeping laughing crying and doing everything at home boredom november 10 2021 university of western ontario london canada regardless of whether we are writers or not artists or not inventors or not there is a rhythm to human life that moves us naturally into balance of doing and retreating we are driven to oscillate emotionally and intellectually we move between states and this movement is where the creative static of insight growth and self expression comes from some of you know that this writer is also a student learning how be a mathematician this is a strange statement be a it is strange in part because to be in the english language has such finality to it a decisive closure that denies the precariousness of identification here strange is the best word to fit against that finality putting our sense of being in partnership with alienation it reminds us that identity is a spectrum we oscillate in our relationship with our own self being and knowing ourselves as different people across a lifetime sometimes even being several versions of ourselves in only one day to be a mathematician is 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