Frost and Sunshine at Fermilab

[beamjockey]

Here's what Fermilab looked like today, the first sunny day I can recall recently.








(By dinnertime it was overcast and gloomy again. That still doesn't spoil the magic of the morning.)

Comments

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

What does that obelisk mark?

Or would you have to kill me after you told me?

And those are some INTERESTING power-line poles!

[(Anonymous)]

Frost and Fermilab, eh? Nearly had a Fred Pohl reference there.... :)

Bruce

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

It's "Acqua Alle Funi," by Fermilab's founding director, Robert Rathbun Wilson, cowboy, physicist, and sculptor. Read the link for more.

Wilson also designed the345 kV power-line poles. He didn't like the conventional criss-cross high-voltage tower.

He had firm opinions on how the place should look. He kept the architects on a tight leash. He tried weird ideas for building designs. Some of them worked well. He appointed an Aesthetics Committee to pick a paint scheme, and to ensure that Fermilab still looked like Fermilab as new construction projects grew up over the years.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I did name one of the pictures "Fermi and Frost," though there's no real connection to Fred Pohl's 1985 SF story.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Those photos almost make me miss winter.
:-)

A Happy New Year, Bill!

[kevinnickerson.livejournal.com]

Very nice photos.