the real thing

Here is the flower stand, with flowers in the hole of the cinderblock. You can see that I got the rainbow umbrella wrong--it's rainbow along its latitude lines, not its longitude lines. I didn't remember!

Today the students arrive back at UMass, and at the nearby Big Y supermarket, Our Family Farms, a locally based milk company, had a little Jersey calf there to welcome and entice the students. A sweetie!