In The Stacks

We visited Bowdoin this weekend for Sarah to take a look. We had been on campus for about 15 minutes when (in the Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, in the basement, looking for a bathroom...) we found ourselves peering between these bookshelves. Credit Sarah for telling me to take the picture. If it appears to you that a person could not fit between these shelves to look at the titles, you are right. Here's what the stacks look like:
We had to stare at the three-pronged devices for five minutes before we noticed the tracks on the floor below, and realized that the side controls can be turned to move the shelves slowly and smoothly along the track, creating enough room between the shelves so that you can browse. We then imagined a movie scene in which someone, standing between the stacks and entranced by a particular volume, fails to notice that the evil character is silently sandwiching the stacks closer, and closer ........

In uploading these photos, I was delighted to realize that the red volume on the second shelf down is entitled Experiencing. How wonderfully appropriate!! While we were at Bowdoin, we experienced
... two student practitioners of Taiko drumming/dancing who demonstrated their loud and graceful art;
... the warmest day of the year, and a brilliant blue sky;
... meeting one of Sarah's Elm City Girls' Choir colleagues, randomly showing up at exactly the same college tour 4 hours from home.

On a completely separate bit of woolgathering: this is my 13th weekly post, my 1/4 year mark. 52 weeks in a year, 52 cards in a deck. I have tried to play from different suits to keep things interesting, so I think I still have lots of variety left in my hand.