Sunday Walkabout

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Last Sunday while Troubadour was doing his instructor training I was looking for something to do.  Sunday was supposed to be the nicer of the two days of the weekend. Key phrase - supposed to.  Sunday dawned grey and foggy a little chilly with a wind blowing from the East.

By noon I was bored and decided to walk the three miles to downtown. I figured it was a good excuse to check the mail and work for an hour or so then walk the three miles home.  Good exercise if nothing else.

I put on a warm sweater, stuffed the camera in my pocket, grabbed my keys and gloves and headed off.

The multi-use path that I take leads me to campus and is aptly named Campus Way.  It heads through fields and pastures belonging to Oregon State University.  You pass behind their dairy, as well as the alpaca and llama pens.

A little further and you pass some storage sheds and if you look in the right spot can see old signs like this hanging in the sheds.

This was hanging on the inside of a shed just down from the 'beef barns'.  I wonder if the quality products they were selling were the great students.

I walked through campus and then by Central Park and took a picture of one of the other resident statues.  I bet Richard has a photo of this one too.

(Varmints playing games)

A little further down Madison and I was at City Hall.

(Corvallis City Hall)

My office is in the next block so I stopped by to use the facilities then headed to the post office.  On my way back, I stopped at Starbucks for an iced Doubleshot and then worked for an hour or so.  I headed back out thinking it would take me about 45 minutes to walk home depending on how long I dawdled to take pictures on campus.  I managed to take a few.

The sun was really trying to shine but couldn't break through the clouds.  I always find it fascinating when I can see the outline of the sun through the clouds.

It didn't look like it was going to rain so I wasn't in a hurry.  I stopped to take a few pictures of one of my favorite walkways on lower campus.  It is even better when the trees are leafed out.  Or turning colors in the fall.

(Bench along the path - Education Hall in the background)

From here I made my way West through campus taking pictures of random buildings.  A map of the University campus can be found with this ------> link.

(Benton Hall, built in 1887 & 1888)

(Kearney Hall, fka Apperson Hall, was built in 1899 & 1900)

 

(Shepard Hall, built in 1908)

(Milam Hall, built in 1914 originally for Home Economics)

(The words 'Home Economics' can still be found on Milam Hall)

(Women's Building, built in 1926)

(Close up of Women's Building)

(Weatherford Hall, built in 1928)

 

(Close up of Weatherford Hall)

A brief history of these building and more can be seen by clicking this link <-----. The link also shows some historical photos of when they were built.

I finally made it to the West side of campus and onto the multi use path again.  At the corner where the path starts there is new construction.  This is right beside the sheep barns so I believe it is an arena or something to do with the animals.  Most campus buildings are brick and this one is far from that.

I saw some flowers blooming so I stopped for a picture.  Sorry Bobskoot, no bare feet, just dirty sneakers.

Down by the covered bridge I noticed that someone had stenciled writing on the asphalt  The writing wasn't there the week before. 

This is a popular jogging path for the college kids so I think maybe one of them got creative.

I stopped for a few artsy photos of some seed heads further down.

As I was almost at the end of the path I noticed a flock of birds landing in a tree.  Just a solo tree in the field all by itself.  I had to take one last picture.

I apologize for the length of this post.  I didn't realize I had so many photos I wanted to share.  Although it is heavy with photos, I tried to keep the narrative to a minimum.  Maybe I should have divided it into a few posts.

Have a great weekend everyone.

- Au Revoir

"No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning." - Cyril Connolly

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