APRIL 8TH, 2009
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In the grand tradition of Sesame Street, here are two discongruitous objects–now, can you guess which one doesn’t belong? The tricky answer is that, in fact, both images have a connection to agriculture! First, we have the majestic “Science Hall” on the lovely campus of the University of Madison, Wisconsin. Therein toil my academic heroes, who I chillaxed with last week while deciding if the graduate path they generously offered me was the road I wanted to hoof this coming fall. Next, a charming image of the packaged meat in the Milwaukee train station, where my vegetarian mama and I hung out for an afternoon and shot the breeze about aforementioned life path. I was pleased to find that despite its culinary drawbacks, the Midwest maintains great beauty through its freezing springtime: hundreds of warblers were making their migrational pit stop along the two lakes shoring up Madison’s city center.