Final Class, Concluding Thoughts, Free Afternoon

So Jefferson found English artists, gardeners, builders incorporating classical elements, political statements in literary allusion. He clearly takes from England a sanction for what he wants to do anyway. He finds Whig support for liberty and sees how it's been incorporated into cultural expression. He sees on this adventure and remembers creatively when he gets home.

For my part, the afternoon afforded lots of sunny weather for seeking out some of Oxford's treasures --- Addison's Walk around Madgalen College's Water Meadow, the funky Museum of Science in the original Ashmolean Museum building, Exeter College [Philip Pullman's Jordan College] with its charming garden seating on the wall overlooking Radcliffe Square. The Camera and the Bodleian are Right There and you are in a garden bower. But wait, there was just time ...

I had to climb the tower of St. Mary the Virgin for the View. The golden tree in this picture is in the Merton College garden, my home for the past week.