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my new daily commute
January 4, 2010
This is the winding walk from the bus stop to Monastery Hall, where the fine arts department lives.
Hah! Kidding. That’s a side road that cuts off the road to the Monastery. It’s not maintained in winter, from the looks of it. I plan to do some exploring there later, on a less-cold day.
An abandoned trestle, overgrown with sumac. I’m guessing there must be about a jillion student photographs featuring this thing, what with its obvious photogenic qualities and its proximity to the art school. What a fine location for a sweater model photoshoot, don’t you think?
Way down at the end of this road is Monastery Hall, nestled in a winter wonderland. It’s a gorgeous 1970s building with liberal use of concrete screen block, which is one of my very favourite building materials. I’m sure I’ll be posting many photos of this building over the next couple of months. Here’s me back in August when I visited Nipissing for my job interview, posing in front of some screen block in the balcony overlooking the chapel (now a sort of conference room):
Posted by jodi on January 4, 2010 at 7.30pm
Categories: keep it beautiful
Comments on "my new daily commute"
Wow. After looking at pictures of all that snow, I almost feel bad for bitching about it being -4.3C down here in the deep south. Almost. (I totally had to use a converter to figure out C.)
Posted by grace on January 4, 2010 at 8.05pm :: link