Photos of the Gardens

Friday, after getting the calendars, I was in a good and very photography-focused mood, so I wandered the gardens and had a blast with the camera. I've uploaded a bunch of the pictures; I let that run overnight, so they're in two batches: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyrielle/archives/date-posted/2007/04/21/ and http://www.flickr.com/photos/kyrielle/archives/date-posted/2007/04/22/

My three favorites:
1. the waterfall
2. the willow tree
3. a lantern

A couple other links:
1. Remember the stairs I mentioned in the last set? They are NOT gone, or at least, stairs very like them are being added, just at the other end of the back deck of the Pavillion, the side facing the natural garden.
2. One of my photos that is in the calendar is of the dry garden from above. It is very different in focus and feel than this photo from Friday, also of the dry garden from above.

Wikipedia meme

Borrowed from angelamermaid.

1. Go to Wikipedia and enter your birthday without the year.

Okay; that's January 16.

2. List three events that occurred that day.

1605 - The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes was published in Madrid.
1707 - The Scottish Parliament, ratified the Act of Union, paving way for the creation of Great Britain.
2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for mission STS-107 which will be its final one. Columbia disintegrates 16 days later on re-entry.

3. List two important birthdays.

1921 - Francesco Scavullo, American photographer (d. 2004)
1923 - Anthony Hecht, American poet (d. 2004)
(And, not listed on wikipedia obviously, my great-grandmother, I believe)

4. List one death.

1710 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)

5. List one holiday or observance.

National Religious Freedom Day in the United States, to commemorate the adoption of Thomas Jefferson's landmark Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom in 1786.

Accent meme....

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Midland. The Midland (please don't confuse with "Midwest") itself is the neutral zone between the North and South. But just because you have a Midland accent doesn't mean you're from there. Since it is considered a neutral, default, "non-regional" accent you could easily be from someplace without its own accent, like Florida, or a big city in the South like Dallas, Houston, or Atlanta.

Take this quiz now - it's easy!

We're going to start with "cot" and "caught." When you say those words do they sound the same or different?

Same, no wait I mean different, maybe, a little bit different... Different Same

I'm amused. And no, I'm not from there, nor have I lived there for any great length of time - but my Mom grew up in Ohio, so who knows. I think it's just a "somewhere not bothering to have its own accent thing" though.