Looking for Color

It's around this time of year that the winter's lack of color really starts to grate here in the northland. We know it's been greening up in places further south, and we're ready for some variety here too. I went looking for it earlier this week on the campus of the College of St. Catherine (soon to be renamed St. Catherine University!) which has a well-deserved reputation for beauty, thanks to Horticulturist Pete Nipp and his team of hardworking gardeners.

They start everything in the greenhouse in Mendel Hall:

You can peer in the greenhouse windows and get a preview: In the flowerbed just north of Derham Hall...

the tulips are just getting started.

As a little foretaste of the feast to come, here's now they looked there last year on May 7:

Click here to see a photo of the north side of Derham Hall in 1909.

News

The road to Picnic Island is open again in Fort Snelling State Park, but as of Tuesday, the walking path to Pike Island was still closed due to flooding.

Missing St. Thomas student Daniel Zamlen still has not been located, though a bloodhound did pick up his scent on the riverbank yesterday. Many students and other volunteers continue to search for him in the area around St. Clair Avenue and Mississippi River Boulevard. The river is still too high and swift for a water search at this time.

Jews began their celebration of Passover on Tuesday evening. Today is Maundy Thursday for Christians, the beginning of the Triduum, or three days leading up to Easter Sunday, April 12.

All photographs by Baya Clare, CSJ unless otherwise noted.

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