A 1/2 day for my husband, a craigslist find in Princeton and an hour car ride later we found ourselves in South Jersey walking the campus and admiring the architecture of one of the countries oldest universities, Princeton.
Ivy, ivy, ivy! It's not called Ivy Leauge for nothing. Ivy creeps and crawls everywhere throughout the campus. It is trimmed and taken care of properly to show how gorgeous it can be on brick buildings. Graduating Princeton seniors started the custom of planting ivy at the
university building, Nassau Hall, in 1866 as seen above. It became part of
each graduating class’s tradition and they also placed a plaque on the
wall with the date of their graduation.
My girls had a great time exploring all the different "castles". Good thing the campus was pretty empty as we were pretty loud everywhere we went.
2032?! wow, hard to think out that far. I love this post. beautiful pics. fun adventure. thanks for sharing T.
ReplyDeleteI love English Ivy! So beautiful!
ReplyDeleteIt is what I chose to etch into a gravestone.
It was prominent around our first house.
This makes me a little nostalgic...
Thank you!