Tranquil ponds... and sea monsters

This is what I call my pond, which is just a couple steps outside our dorm building. On the rainy mornings when I was waking up like clockwork at 7:25 am I would sit under the little gazebo and read (of course now I can manage to sleep in until my alarm goes off). It has a ton of black, white, and gold fish in it, but these are only really active and jumping in the morning. The pond is most beautiful in the evenings, but I don't think a photograph can quite capture it. Very enchanting.

Please direct your attention to the tall grasses behind the gazebo. I heard some bellowing coming from it on a few occasions early in the morning. It was either a plumbing noise (for the pumps that keep the water flowing into the pond) or, the theory I am most fond of, a sea monster. Maybe I was talking too much about it because yesterday the campus groundskeepers chopped all of that grass down... Mysterious.

Speaking of sea monster related news items, here is a photograph of some artwork my students and I drew on the board. I bet you are pretty impressed with our haiku-writing and drawing skills.

Despite the sea monsters... such a beautiful campus.