Birds and Bees of COC

Some birds and bees of COC. 

This is (I think) a hummingbird sitting on his nest.  I had no idea it was sitting on a nest or that I even had taken this photo till I looked at the pictures at home. 

Back view.  Some iridescent coloring there.  Probably bumped into some fresh blue paint. 

Side view.  A wren perhaps?  

Bumblebee searching for mead.  Looks like those water dropping helicopters used to put out fires.  

Cliff or mud swallow nest on a COC building.  They must clean these out periodically because I did not see as many this year as I've seen in the past.  

College of the Canyon Buildings I

Buildings on the COC campus. 

North commons.  Fortunately, this is located somewhat north of central commons.  There is no south commons that I've seen.  Like Central commons, this is not located on the COC map.  Go figure. 

A clever sign.  Ugly as all get-out, but clever.  I though this was a C sign for the first umpteen times I happened on it.  C for Canyon or C for Cougars perhaps.  But on closer inspection, I realized this is actually a C (in aqua blue) O (in white) C (an un-name-able yellow as this is a family blog) sign.  The colors blend so well together. 

Maybe Hasley Hall?  Sorry if I got the name wrong. There are a number of pictures of this building in the blog. 

 Interior.  I'm sure all that red paint serves some function.  Perhaps keeping the building from falling down?  Note that all this red is interior not exterior. 

The intimidating Central Commons, source of COCs power.  Perhaps they could abbreviate this CeCo?  

The reverse uplift annex designed for increasing and decreasing student's elevation preparatory to entering classrooms. 

A beautiful spot.  This is a combination lecture and concert hall.  

Imagine the engineer's discussion about this one.  "Uh-oh Bob, they cut the girder to the wrong size at the shop."  "If we ship it back, we'll never finish this building."  "Easier to let it poke out of the wall."  And that's what they did, and then they painted it red.  This is the only exterior red building structural element on campus. 

Doors of COC

Doors are a favorite photography target of mine.  Here we see the doors of COC. 

Pico Canyon Hall loading dock doors.  I expect Darth Vader to enter through these. 

Plain vanilla generic doors.  

 

This is the Fire Sprinkler Riser room 103.  Two doors for the price of three.  

You wouldn't want just anyone to use these restrooms.  Protection at all costs.  

Awesome blue with security trash can guard.  

Gateway to another dimension.  

I expect to see a dairy case behind this door.  Don't know why.  Seems like a complicated contraption when they could have installed a regular door.  

Reflections on the floor from door windows.  

Around the other side, they have the non-emerging technologies.  That's a dirty room.  

Left handers enter through the right door, and right handers enter through the left door.  Is that clear?  And there is drainage in case the building floods.  

Equipment on the COC Campus

College of the Canyons is ready for anything.  A cross section of the hardware in use on campus for electrical, phone, internet, carbon dating and dusting. 

Large box on outside of concrete bunker.  Clearly an important piece of equipment.  Probably the computer system that runs the entire campus when the chancellor is out of town, records grades and overcharges your credit card. 

Smaller boxes that control traffic and the diurnal rhythms of the campus.  These turn the stop signs invisible, and allow jaywalkers to escape damage.  Also these control the height of the grass and flowers and plants so that the campus pays a much reduced fee for gardening. 

The dust hog.  This hog pulls in dust from the surrounding fields and distributes it uniformly across all books and professors office spaces to give that lived in, university-style feel of great antiquity. 

A close-up of the internet pipes running into campus.  The COC internet connection is so large, they can deliver objects up to the size of a medium pizza to your desktop inside any COC faculty office. 

Outdoor wireless connections.  Not suitable for pizza delivery. But strong enough to provide service anywhere on campus provided no one is smoking near you. 

The Furniture! The Home Show At COC

Furniture and furnishings in the College of the Canyons Collection.  

The furniture mostly consists of tables and chairs in the College of the Canyons Collection.  An outdoor picnic table.  Fun for the whole crew. 

Colorful wooden bookshelves in the COC colors.  In spite of the woodenness of the construction, these are suitable for outdoor placement.  

Door stop in red.  Not a COC color.  

Tables and chairs, indoor variety from the College of the Canyons Collection!

Close-up, doll furniture.  Note the stark wall setting, providing contrast with the soft wood colors, and yet a similar tone is found in the flat table top. 

Electric outlet when both computer users need electric power, but while one needs to plug into the net, the other either carries a screwdriver or has wireless access.  

Fake waterfall.  Can you imagine the intrepid COC students sitting around the falls eating their lunches and discussing the latest theories of existentialism and Freud.  

Alternative picnic table coloration.  

Outdoor box for placing fliers or campus maps.  With guardian tree bole.  

Stuff on the Ground at College of the Canyons

Pictures of things on the ground or pictures of the ground itself. 

L. Frank had it wrong.  And there, at the end of the yellow brick road, Dorothy found ... a trashcan. 

A lonely leaf lying on the ground.  

Step to it.  

Orange just lying there. Kind of a shocking color. 

The ground comes in multiple textures at College of the Canyons.  

Tres Amigos. The three sentries. 

Light Poles of COC

Who knew light poles could be so interesting and stylish!

Tri-parital lamp pole.  Reflect on this for a moment. 

This one is interesting, particularly compared to the next.  

This and the previous are photos of the same light pole and 5 Lot sign.  Colors are quite different. 

A close-up of some light, not the previous one.  

Hanging around outside.  

Please sir, may I come in?  

Patterns from around COC

Patterns.

Tennis anyone?  Chain link and stretched tarp.  

Tennis court entrance.  Fat lot of good a tennis court does you if the door is locked.  

Watch out pebble, last drop is a doozy.  This one didn't have a dolphin spray painted on it.  Hopefully all that spray paint is biodegradable.  It does wash or peal off eventually.

Entrance mat.