IT WAS AN AWFULLY NICE DAY for January. I have a rule that I cancel class if it breaks 80 in January, and that won’t be triggered. But it hit the 70s and I had to take some time off to walk around campus. And, being a good geek blogger I had my digital camera with me. Here are a few pictures for the Knoxville expats and UT alumni who are always requesting such.

If you’re cold and miserable up in the dreary north, well, I’m sorry. But you can console yourself that, given the changeable quality of East Tennessee weather, we’ll probably have a blizzard next week.

But what I like about the weather here is that it is changeable. The thing I disliked about living in northern climes — like New Haven, Cambridge, or, especially, Heidelberg, was the absolutely unrelenting quality of winter once it set in. Here, it relents, and we appreciate the break.

A lot.

(Other pics moved to the extended-entry area to speed loadtimes; click “read more” to see them).