I Think That I Shall Never See…

…a poem lovely as a tree. ♥

And I’m a poet, so that’s saying something!

We’ve had a great day so far.  Ryan, my parents and I walked over to Centenary, Shreveport’s liberal arts college.  Centenary’s campus is small, but very pretty.  Lots of green hills, trees, and ivy-covered red brick buildings. 

In 1985, a biology professor planted a bunch of trees that are native to Louisiana, so we went to check out all the different specimen.  I never even knew this existed– funny that it’s only a few miles from our house!

Louisiana Yucca:

Holly berries:

My mom fancies herself an arborist:

White sasanqua camelia:

Centenary has such a pretty campus:

It’s our secret dream that one day a job will open up there in the English department and we’ll be able to move home.  Sigh.

After exploring the campus a little, we walked to a restaurant for some lunch al fresco.  Columbia Cafe is a cute little restaurant only a few miles from our house.  I hadn’t been there in a while, and I was a little disappointed to see that the vegetarian choices were pretty limited.  Still, I found a good pick: cream cheese and vegetable sandwich on home-baked wheatberry bread.  Yum!

I also had a bite of Ryan’s 4 cheese mac ‘n cheese, which was awesome:

We’re about to go to the grocery store.  We’re going over to my sister’s house tonight for dinner, and we’ve volunteered to bring dessert: Gingered Pear Crisp (from a 2004 issue of Cooking Light, ha!).  Pictures will follow later tonight.

I hope your afternoon has been sunny just like mine! ☀