Misty autumn morning by my school

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Last week There was a morning where a thick mist wrapped the whole town and lasted well into the early day. Before 8 a.m. you wouldn't have seen Jack the Ripper until he was right next to you, closer to lunch it was still lingering, just slightly softening the gray contours of this fall day.

The view from the balcony of the house I currently live in, in the morning


My faculty is surrounded by a park, called "The English Park" on one side and the old graveyard on the other side. This is part of The English Park, on my way to class.



Part of the university, on my morning walk to class


The autumn colors are still pretty striking...




Girl with guitar in morning mist


In spring and summer students often hang out and study here...


The building my faculty is in


After classes there was just a soft hint of the fog left


The old cemetery, which flanks the arts, sociology and language faculties from one side


A glimpse of the mausoleum


It's a nice but crowded old cemetery where they have ghost walks sometimes, during cultural events.


Normally I miss the US on the rare occasion that I'm away from there in Halloween times, this year is no exception, but a few things make it more bearable, the pretty fall colors for one thing, and the fact that I'm going to a Halloween party at an old friend's house on Saturday. Also, this weekend I'm going to hang out with tommdroid and prettyochpink, which feels great, since I haven't seen them in a year.

I'm a little happy, a little grateful a little melancholic and a little reflective these days, which fits the times I suppose...
Come spring I'll probably kick some things to the curb, but right now I'm letting it linger and processing it.

Comments

[tommdroid.livejournal.com]

Very beautiful photos!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Thanks pretty! See you soon!

[wavebreaker.livejournal.com]

Lovely pictures!

The other day, one of my neighbours was complaining about the "mess" in our street caused by all the leaves. If there's one thing I like about the autumn, it's the colours and the leaves everywhere...

Love that icon!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

pffff...that neighbor clearly needs to be reminded about the joys of life.

[jamezm.livejournal.com]

Wow, the shot with the leaves all over the bench is particularly good.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm in general a pretty average photographer, but mood and subject can compensate for that.

[catsidhe.livejournal.com]

That's where you live and go to school?

Every day?

Damn — how can you even look out the window without being stunned by how beautiful that all is?

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Having been away from Sweden makes me see more clearly how lovely it can be here, it gives fresh eyes. So the answer to your question would be: I really can't! ;P

[clsisold.livejournal.com]

Your photographs are spectacular

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Thaaaank Youuuu!!

[dust-rat.livejournal.com]

That used to be my faculty (that was back in the good old days before the linguistics stole it)and every morning I crossed that lovley cemetary .... I really loved the november mornings back then ...
My GF lives next to it, so I see it quite often nowdays also...

Lovley photos!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I was wondering where the science faculties are now!
Hey, we were gonna have fika or food or something and I was gonna meet your gf, you promised! how about we manage that in November?

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

Oh, I would spend all my time in that
graveyard and not going to class! What
beautiful fog and tree colours!

I saw Glögg at the store the other day,
and thought of you.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I will probably try to take some winter pictures from the graveyard later on, preferably with snow.

aah, glögg...I'm looking forward to that, the glögg season starts soon. If that was alcohol free glögg in the store(which it often is in the US), then just spike it with a bit of wine or vodka!

[shipbuilding.livejournal.com]

Oh! I love it. It makes me want to curl up in a window seat with a calico cat and drink tea.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Books and cats and tea, it's all part of the goodness of fall!

[mojodragonfly.livejournal.com]

bewitching, in an honest and sincere way.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I like that description, I'll take it!

[lelain.livejournal.com]

Those are gorgeous photos! I love the fall colors, the "old world" feel of the buildings and gardens, and the cemetary is lovely! I look forward to more photos!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Hopefully there may be some from Halloween or winter occasions in the near future!

[aurora-ren.livejournal.com]

love the fall colours! we have many inches of snow and a snow day today (dad must be happy)- unfortunately a typical halloween season in CO. kim has posted pics of the girls in their costumes on facebook - very cute!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I heard about the snow! Gosh, Colorado at its best! Oooh, I must go and see FB pics of my favorite munchkins!

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

The fog and the foliage are just beautiful--much like we have them here in New England, but somehow more special to see them in another setting. (Plus I no longer live or work on a university campus, so I don't get the sense of quiet space.)

And just for the trivia, any special story to why it's called the "English Park"?

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

The park got its name because it was among the first classical examples in the region, of a park "in English style" which in landscape architecture broke free of the strictly cropped Baroque style of parks of the 1700's and instead cultivated a more free and natural style.

It is also called the Carolina park (because it is located behind the university library - Carolina Rediviva), but everyone and their dog always called it "The English Park" and nowadays the language and arts faculty campus is named after this version of the name.

[scowling-hermit.livejournal.com]

Lovely! ...well, except for the idea of Jack the Ripper lurking about. ;)

I hope you have a wonderful Halloween.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Same to you! I sometimes like to think of mystical (but benevolent) mythical creatures lurking around in the fog, much nicer than old Jack...

[wolfchilde.livejournal.com]

I wanna come visit!!!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

You'll always be welcome!

[simpletwice.livejournal.com]

Wow - these photos are amazingly atmospheric! Awesome. :)

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

It was a very atmospheric morning, so I'm glad I caught a bit of that!

[cienna.livejournal.com]

Wow beautiful photos! These really put me in a Halloween kind of mood!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I'm in total Halloween mood too, I want to go visit a haunted house about now!

[lizardek.livejournal.com]

Lovely photos! I love the fall colors in the mist. We had fog last night and this morning, too.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I love fog, when I was a little girl someone told me that fog was made when the fairies danced during the night.

[sangueuk.livejournal.com]

What lovely photos - I love the fog! My favourites, because I am a shameless Goth, are the ones in the cemetery of course!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

I'm a little sucker for goth aesthetics too, but don't tell anyone, shhhh....

[stefan11.livejournal.com]

beautiful pictures. The colors are so pretty.

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

They really really are, but soon it's all gonna be bare and no fun to look at until the snow comes...

[kejn.livejournal.com]

your pics almost look like paintings! wonderful!!

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

It's the fog, it creates that kind of softened canvas feeling!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Saved your piccies for a weekend viewing treat and they didn't disappoint ... absolutely beautiful! And now I have the song One Misty Moisty Morning playing in my head ...

[sealwhiskers.livejournal.com]

Thank you darling, it was a somewhat surreal and magical morning!