Thursday, November 17, 2005

First Snow


Soldiers of the 343rd Infantry throwing snow during a snow fight at Camp Grant in Rockford, Illinois, Chicago Daily News photographer (1918)

Snow plow and large piles of snow, Chicago Daily News photographer (1929)

Students of a University of Chicago Department of Botany Field Ecology class coming down a snow field, Mt. Rainier, Washington (1920)
Coleridge (Notebooks): “The Metapothecaries always kicking out at the Mathematicians, the Mattermaticians on the other hand aiming the same asinine Flings at the Metaphysicians. But real Metaphysicians and Mathematicians are Friends, and Lovers; always look at each other respect and welcome, and often walk arm in arm.”