In an article in Coming of Age I talk about having only had about six real teachers in over 20 years of formal education. I am talking about people who's primary responsibility was to impart some kind of wisdom or knowledge into me. Of course other people took a crack at it but not as professionals.
Ron Taylor was one of those teachers. This fall reminded me of something he said to me years ago. After class Ron would hang around campus and sort of get wistful about things and I loved to talk with him then. Like me he loved the campus, the idea and beauty of it, during the slow times when everyone else had pretty much gone home. It is an awesome experience to have a whole campus to yourself! It was a fall afternoon, around this time of year, when he had me come out to the front of St. Clair at Columbia College. He told me that somebody should come to that spot at the same time every week and take a picture of the trees. He thought it was worthwhile to capture the seasonal changes. Well, that was years ago but last week I remembered. At around 3 p.m. on a Wednesday I went out and took a picture. It is my last assignment from Ron.
Every week for a year I am going to go to the same spot at 3 p.m. on Wednesday and take a picture of the general area Dr. Taylor indicated. If I cannot be there at that exact time I will do it the day before or the day after, or perhaps have someone else do it for me. I hope to use the same camera as well (my Lumix with Leica lens - a great pocket camera).
Here is the first picture and I will add pictures to this project every week or so until next year at this time.
Week One: Taken on 14 October 2009 at 3 p.m.
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