Today is the kind of weather one moves to New England for, a big, blowy sky, cool, air that feels good going down.
Beyond UMass’s entrance is the Fine Arts Center (shown this week in Architizer’s Kevin Roche retrospective). Outbound past the university farm, I flushed a great blue heron from a reedy pasture corner. The llama herd (middle) was mildly curious, then decided that, as usual, grass was more interesting. On the hill beyond them, hidden except for the high rise dorms of Southwest, is most of Amherst.