Fall at Notre Dame

Jenny visited Notre Dame last weekend. We took a walk around the lakes on campus. Here, I am on the edge of St. Joseph's Lake and you can see the golden dome of the main building and the spire of the Basilica in the distance.

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The buildings on campus are grand. Morrissey Hall (pictured below) and Walsh Hall are my favourites. Morrissey has the most imposing presence and Walsh has a little archway that I go out of my way to walk through when going to-and-from the Rockne Memorial sports centre. (Gnute Rockne, a football coach from Notre Dame's golden years in American Football, is immortalized in many ways all around the university.)

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Jen joined me on the pier near the boathouse for a photograph in the style I refer to as the "Amy Sullivan-style selfie".

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This cute, well-fed squirrel was not really put out by our presence. I enjoy watching these busy little creatures gathering, burying and re-burying nuts. I was intrigued to read that squirrels will often fake burying nuts if they think that they may be watched! (In order to conceal the real location of their caches!)

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There's a little magnetic attraction here but it's very innocent; I'm loading a sample into the 300 MHz NMR to quickly check that the titanium-based catalyst system I use has served me faithfully.

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Before I headed off to introduce Jenny to my new colleagues at our end-of-the-week function hosted by some of the grad' students, I posed in my invisible safety glasses and lab coat.

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