T Stands for Some Art

     Hi everyone. Happy new week to you. I'm here with my post for  T day over at bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog. I thought I had scheduled this post for later this evening, but I guess I didn't so it's up a bit early. However it's not that early where I have to delete it. 

    Last week we had some lovely weather, and I spent much of it working outside. But on Friday one of my friends asked me if I wanted to go to the senior project presentations over at the University of New Hampshire. Graduating seniors work on some sort of research project depending on their major. They then create a display  board and at a selected time, different majors display their project boards. Visitors can walk around and view the boards, plus the students are there to talk about their projects or answer your questions. I remember going to one of these when my daughter was about to graduate, and since she was getting a degree in civil engineering, her presentation time was with her school of engineering. This past Friday was when the biology/biological science students were on display, and so I was really interested to go (since my undergrad degree was in biology and I taught high school biology for 36 years). 

    It was fascinating to see what some of these students were working on. My friend's former student had asked her to attend, and his project was in immunology. I learned some new things and was happy I remembered as much my pre-retirement life as I did. 👍 And boy, biology has sure come a long way since I was in college. Grin.

    I won't bore you with the details of the presentations, but afterwards my friend and I took a walk around campus and the town of Durham (where we parked and where the University is lcoated). We even happened upon the University art museum where some student art was on display. I thought I would share some art today since I am sure many of you aren't interested in the Hedgehog signalling pathway (the name of a human cell development pathway I learned  a little bit about at the presentations) or other biological process.

Here's a few murals that were downtown where we parked.

    And here's a permanent collage on the outside of the art building. This must be fairly new because the last time I walked around this campus (a couple of years ago) I don't remember seeing it.

And here's a few pieces of student art in the campus museum that I thought were interesting, starting with this paper sculpture.

     And my favorite pieces in the student museum were these next few by artist Miranda Fay.

     And I'm not sure who this next artist was, but they had a collection of clothes made out of paper on both full sized and doll sized mannequins that I thought was pretty clever. I only ended up with one photo, so sadly I can't share the other clothes.

     Afterwards my friend and I went to lunch. We didn't want to pay for more parking so we headed to the next town over (Dover) and went to a place we had been to before called the Fat Dog Cafe. They make the best BLT's there (bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches) with chipotle mayo and avocado.

    I upgraded to sweet potato tots, because I'd never had them before, and I would get them again in a heartbeat. They were really tasty. And you can see I had water to drink which is my ticket for T this week.

    That's enough for one post. Wishing everyone a wonderful T day and week ahead.