Spinning Day 2, and a bit of ground covered

I don't think I need to bore blogland with the finer details of Woollen spinning or spinning in the grease. They are not mutually exclusive, the first is fine, the second is a bit messier and smellier than this knitter prefers to work with, but I can see the point of it in some cases. I guess I'll be doing a bit more of it in the coming months as my homework requires me to to make a project starting pretty much from the sheep. Well, I don't think I have to shear it myself but it starts after that.

I've decided I like Haliburton, though. Friendly town. Nice landscape. The College building itself is neat, a very odd structure that looks part cottage, part industrial. Here's the front entry:

There is an inscription in the door that reads "Inside these walls, the walls disappear". It's a quirky, somewhat organic structure, actually - I'll have to see if I can get more angles on it, and the interior.

I walked a total of about 9 km today - 1 in the morning when I started an aborted attempt to walk to school, a couple at lunch, and around 6, 5.2 of it at a good workout pace, after class. I went all the way around the lake, actually. Both the lunch walk and my evening walk were through parts of the Sculpture Forest, a trail on the campus dotted with sculptures of all sorts. This one caught my eye, as from the trail, it was obviously an installation but didn't look like much:



But when you walk around to the "back" side (from the trail) you realize it's the "front" side (looking onto the lake), and she is sleeping:



A little later in the trail, I glanced over my shoulder at a runoff channel reinforced with rock, and caught this little guy:


Either he's a professional gopher model, or I scared him (her?) silly, because he (she?) froze in that position for 5 minutes or more, giving me time to turn off the iPod, take out the camera, fiddle with some of the settings as it kept trying to focus on weeds in the foreground, and move closer a couple of times to boot. Just after this last snap, the little critter dove forward and disappeared into the rocks, under which I assume it has a den.

Back to the B&B with some run-of-the-mill Chinese take-out, and a bit of computer work putting up the class list, and I'm pretty much ready for bed at 9:30.