THE SPRING BREAK NEW ENGLAND LONG DRIVE March 8 - 11, 2006

The Ground Sloth @ HMNH 

FRIDAY, MARCH 9

Having driven all day, watered at Gillian's and slept at the Hostelling International, we check in at Quincy and get ready to explore Boston. Only one problem - everyone is at a loss to find the T station, the signs say it is *here* ... duh 

Crossing the bridge by T  

Harvard University

The Harvard clock 

Perched miserably in front of the gates ... 

Brush up your Latin 

The most visible of the Harvard gates 

As you enter ... 

Conglomeration 

Harvard from the inside  

Harvard is picture perfect 

Six fold symmetry in a dorm window 

The Memorial Church from the Sackler Galleries 

Sanders Theater, Harvard University - busts of 8 great orators are placed all round it. Beautiful building, but the busts are rather hideous - take a look for yourselves 

Bust of Chrysostom 

Bust of Bossuet 

A quaint little church in Cambridge 

The Harvard Museum of Natural History

The gates of the museum are well guarded 

Nabokov's Blues 

The 3-dimensional herbarium in glass at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, painstakingly built over two human generations. See here for details. 

Maple in fall 

A typical Glass Flowers rack - sprigs, leaves, fruits, cross-sections - all meticulously done in glass, right down to the visible texture and colour 

Glass flowers - this one is all too familiar 

Glass Pitcher plants 

The instruments for making the glass flowers