A Flowering Hawthorne Tree At The Rear Entrance Door Of The University of Chicago’s Cobb Lecture Hall. This Is One of The Main Classroom Buildings for the University. ….Photo Approximately June 9, 2002.

…A View Looking North Along South Ellis Ave. The University’s Hospital Is At Left & Their Bookstore Is One Block Ahead, On Left. This Bookstore Was Where Phaedrus & Class Went To, Along This Sidewalk, For Coffee.

…The ZMM Narrator Now Returns to Phaedrus’s Story at the University of Chicago.
….“The leaders of the revolt were Robert Maynard Hutchins, who had become president of the University of Chicago; Mortimer Adler, whose work on the psychological background of the law of evidence was somewhat similar to work being done at Yale by Hutchins; Scott Buchanan, a philosopher and mathematician; and most important of all for Phædrus, the present chairman of the committee, who was then a Columbia University Spinozist and medievalist.”
PASSAGE RE: COFFEE from ZMM Ch. 30
… The next time the class in Ideas and Methods 251, Rhetoric, met at the large round table in South Chicago, a department secretary announced that the Professor of Philosophy was ill. The following week he was still ill. The somewhat bewildered remnants of the class, which had dwindled to a third of its size, went on their own across the street for coffee.
At the coffee table a student whom Phædrus had marked as bright but intellectually snobbish said, "I consider this one of the most unpleasant classes I have ever been in." He seemed to look down on Phædrus with womanish peevishness as a spoiler of what should have been a nice experience.
… "I thoroughly agree," Phædrus said. He waited for some sort of attack, but it didn’t come.
The other students seemed to sense that Phædrus was the cause of all this but they had nothing to go on. Then an older woman at the other end of the coffee table asked why he was attending the class.
… "I’m in the process of trying to discover that," Phædrus said.
… "Do you attend full-time?" she asked.
… "No, I teach full-time at Navy Pier."
… "What do you teach?"
… "Rhetoric."
… She stopped talking and everyone at the table looked at him and became silent.

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Cobb Lecture Hall is on the West end of University of Chicago’s Central Quadrangle.

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… Click Here For More Information And Photos Concerning Phaedrus At The University of Chicago
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NOTE1:
...Hawthorn is a genus (Crataegus) of several hundreds of species of shrubs and trees that occur in the Northern Hemisphere across four continents. The ‘haws,” the fruit of the Hawthorn, have a long history of being used as food source in various places, as well as being a food source for birds, other animals. The flowers are a source of food for nectar feeding moths and butterflies. Among the several common names for the Hawthorn are May-tree and Mayflower, which corresponds with our photo taken June 9, 2022, although this tree may be a late bloomer. We identified this tree using the University of Chicago’s Campus Tree Inventory map available here =>
=> Click Here For U Chicago Plant Inventory Map Information
Learn more about Hawthorn here: Click Here Learn More About Hawthorn
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Greenhouse, In Sculpture Gardens, Of Walker Gallery of Art, Minneapolis, MN.

…Inside This Greenhouse, Flowers Are Abundant, And There Is As A Sculpture Of Giant Fish Created With "Silastic RTV" Glued Together Pieces Of Plate Glass. … Approximately June 15, 2002.

…. "We are heading northwest from Minneapolis to the Dakotas."

These above words in italics are from the 3rd sentence of ” Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Here The ZMM Narrator specifies Minneapolis as where he, his son Chris, and John & Sylvia Sutherland, start their journey.
….Robert Pirsig, author of ZMM, grew up in Minneapolis. His father was Maynard E. Pirsig, Dean of the University Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis.

Greenhouse, In Sculpture Gardens, Of Walker Gallery of Art, Minneapolis, MN.
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Flowers Are Abundant Inside This Greenhouse.

… This Is The Same Greenhous As Shown Previous Photo. Approximately June 15, 2002.

Greenhouse In Sculpture Gardens, Of Walker Gallery of Art, Minneapolis, MN.

NOTE.
…IN THIS ALBUM OF 226 PHOTOS, MUCH HELP IS NEEDED ON ADDING THE NAMES OF THE FLOWERS SHOWN. IF YOU KNOW OF THE NAMES OF ANY OF THE FLOWERS OR PLANTS, PLEASE SEND AN EMAIL WITH THE PHOTOGRAPH NUMBER AND THE NAME OF THE FLOWER YOU HAVE IDENTIFYED. THANK YOU.)
…I WILL WORK ON COMPLETING THE CAPTIONS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
PLEASE BE PATIENT TILL THIS GETS DONE.
…THANKS. HENRY GURR
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Flowers & Ornamental Trees Are Abundant Inside This Greenhouse.

… This Is The Same Greenhous As Shown Previous Photo. Approximately June 15, 2002.

Greenhouse In Sculpture Gardens, Of Walker Gallery of Art, Minneapolis, MN.

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One Of The Many Beautiful Flowers & Ornamental Trees,Abundant Inside The Same Greenhouse, As Was Shown Previous Photo. Approximately June 9, 2002.

Greenhouse In Sculpture Gardens, Of Walker Gallery of Art, Minneapolis, MN.

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A Spring Time View Of Minnesota Farmland, From Elevated Railroad Overpass.

"I’ve wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it and yet we didn’t see it. Or rather we were trained not to see it. Conned, perhaps, into thinking that the real action was metropolitan and all this was just boring hinterland. It was a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I’m looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.”
…NOTE:: "Seeing truth" and "Not seeing truth" are an emphasized and recurring theme in ZMM. Thus this passage introduces us to one of many "ZMM Master Motifs". The idea of a "Master Motif" is explained in the ”Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. . This VERY USEFUL book Bing or Google will find much info about.

Rt55 Railroad Overpass 3 Miles West of Kimball, MN. As a person travels Rt55 Northwest from Minneapolis, the scenery is mostly flat, swamp land, with an abundance of trees. For the traveler, it is not possible to see what the surrounding land really looks like, and likewise it is hard to get a good landscape photograph.
…The Rt 55 RR Overpass raises the traveler high enough to see the surrounding land. For this reason, I took advantage of the modest increase of elevation here to attempt my first (ever) 360 degree full circle panorama. RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT “NEW TAB” => AFTER this Gallery Albums Page Comes Up, Please Scroll Down To => “Album 360 Degree Panoramas for Book "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”.Then Read The Instructions: And AFTER you read (and remember) the instructions, Then Click On => At Left, The narrow strip photo => And AFTER the 9 age comes up, Click on any of the small strip photos several time to get a HUGE PANORAMA PHOTO. Then you can “Click&Drag” the SlideBars Bottom & Right, to See More Off Your Screen Edges. ….

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In The /\ Above /\ Photo, Notice the Yellow Blooms To Left Of Metal Guard Rail At Lower Center. These Look Like Yellow Mustard, A Common Farmland Weed.
…In The Northern USA, East of The Rocky Mountains, a common farmland weed is the Mustard plant with Yellow Flowers in June.
…I Henry Gurr, remember this springtime weed in our hay fields when I was a youth on our Wooster Ohio farm.
… Learn More about Mustard Plants: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_plant
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…The NEXT Two Photos, shows typical views of what this Yellow Blooming Mustard Plant looks like at a further distance. (Eventually also see the 9th NEXT photo)
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Among The Weeds Along The Highway, Left Of Center, Are Seen Unidentified White Blossoms. And To The Right Are The Two Taller Yellow Blossom Plants, Which Might Be The Common Mustard Weed, Or Indian Mustard, Or Wild Mustard.

…At Lower Right Is Seen Standing Water In The Roadside Ditch. …. Approximately June 16, 2002.

Rt-55 Railroad Overpass 3 Mi West of Kimball, MN. …The NEXT Photo Shows A Better View Of This Mustard Weed.

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Among The Weeds Along The Highway, To Right Of White, Red, & Yellow Post, Is Seen A Patch Of Yellow Blossoms, Which Might Be The Common Mustard Weed, Or Indian Mustard, Or Wild Mustard. …. Approximately June 16, 2002.

Rt-55 Railroad Overpass 3 Miles West of Kimball, MN.

…The 8th NEXT Photo Shows A Whole Field Of What Is Likely Yellow Blossoming Mustard Weed.

Learn More about Mustard Plants:
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Tall Dandelions Color the Roadside, At The Rt. 55 Railroad Overpass.

…"The road winds on and on - we stop for rests and lunch, exchange small talk, and settle down to the long ride. The beginning fatigue of afternoon balances the excitement of the first day and we move steadily, not fast, not slow. .. We have picked up a southwest side wind, and the cycle cants into the gusts, seemingly by itself, to counter their effect."

1.5 Miles West of Paynesville, MN. Later on, I did experience strong wind. I stopped to get a Movie Clip of the wind rippling the deep grass at the roadside. This will be made available as soon as possible.
….More Photos needed for this area.
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Spring Blooms Along Rt-55, At The Railroad Overpass, Some 84 Miles Northwest Of Minneapolis, MN.

…"But once we caught on, of course, nothing could keep us off these roads, weekends, evenings, vacations. We have become real secondary-road motorcycle buffs and found there are things you learn as you go. .. We have learned how to spot the good ones on a map, for example. If the line wiggles, that’s good. That means hills. If it appears to be the main route from a town to a city, that’s bad. The best ones always connect nowhere with nowhere and have an alternate that gets you there quicker.”

2Miles West of Eden Valley, MN. Flowers along the route are often mentioned in ZMM, especially in the mountains of Montana. For this reason, I started the practice of stopping where-ever I encountered flowers.
…Thus, when I stopped here to take photographs for a Panorama Photo, I walked to the other side of the highway to photo the flowers in previous photos and the /\ above /\ red clovers, yellow flowers, and white daisies.
…As I knelt to focus my camera, the pungent odor of wet, old, mowed hay rose from around the roots of these spring blooms.

SPECULATIVE FLOWERS by David Matos …
…In the right-hand corner close up, we see what appears to be Reed Canary Grass (Pahlaris arundinacea), a native yet very invasive species. The pink flowers are possibly Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnate) or maybe even Tall Thistle or Swamp Thistle (Cirsium sp)


LEARN MORE …
Reed Canary Grass: Click Here.

Swamp Milkweed: Click Here.

We used Minnesota Wildflowers to look for flowers that matched. Click Here.
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Ever Cautious Red-Winged Blackbirds Keep Their Distance, Eden Valley, MN.

…"There! A huge flock of red-winged blackbirds ascends from nests in the cattails, startled by our sound. I swat Chris’s knee a second time-then I remember he has seen them before. .... Unless you’re fond of hollering you don’t make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you’re in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you’re losing time."

Better Photos needed for RWBB in Eden Valley, MN & Paynesville, MN. Four or five Red-Winged Blackbirds were happily perched in this marsh when I pulled up. I tried to sneak-up on them. But, the closer I got the more they took to the air. This one hesitated, but not for long! … Ever cautious, these are play-it-safe modern day dinosaurs.
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Along The ZMM Route In Minnesota And The Dakotas, Sometimes Blue Flax Blossoms Are Seen In The Wide Sweep Of the Fields.

… Ahead Are The “Dakotas”,

…"We are not in the Dakotas yet, but the broad fields show we are getting nearer. Some of them are blue with flax blossoms moving in long waves like the surface of the ocean. The sweep of the hills is greater than before and they now dominate everything else, except the sky, which seems wider. Farmhouses in the distance are so small we can hardly see them. The land is beginning to open up.
.. There is no one place or sharp line where the Central Plains end and the Great Plains begin. It’s a gradual change like this that catches you unawares, as if you were sailing out from a choppy coastal harbor, noticed that the waves had taken on a deep swell, and turned back to see that you were out of sight of land. There are fewer trees here and suddenly I am aware they are no longer native. They have been brought here and planted around houses and between fields in rows to break up the wind. But where they haven’t been planted there is no underbrush, no second-growth saplings—only grass, sometimes with wildflowers and weeds, but mostly grass. This is grassland now. We are on the prairie."

Typical Landscape, Rt-55 ~1.5 Mile NW Of Glenwood, MN.
Google Street View Shows => ". The sweep of the hills is greater than before and they now dominate everything else, except the sky, which seems wider. Farmhouses in the distance are so small we can hardly see them. The land is beginning to open up.."
Click Here.
…NOTE1: I have traveled the ZMM Route through Minnesota & The Dakotas (Early June 2002 & late Aug 2006), and did not see any blue flowers prior to the mountains in Montana. But Author Robert Pirsig’s " the broad fields… are blue with flax blossoms … " fits what often happens, such as this =>

…”I’ve been captivated by the thousands, perhaps millions, of delicate, skyblue flowers gently waving in the breeze along the roadside. This blue flowering plant is scientifically called Linum lewissi, more commonly known as prairie flax or blue flax. It’s actually a perennial wildflower, native to the United States and grows with great success here in Nebraska. An individual flower has five petals and measures approximately one inch in diameter. Each blossom lasts only one day, but a new flower will open the next day to take its place. The flower opens in the early morning just before dawn. Unless the day is overcast, the fully open flower drops its petals by midday. This plant successively blooms to mid-summer on a daily basis.”
Above Is Excerpt From University of Nebraska Lincoln, fully agrees. Click Here For Complete Report With Two Good Photos, .

…NOTE2: Click Here For Complete Wikipedia Article. Linum marginale, commonly known as native flax or wild flax, is a species of flowering plant in the family Linaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is a perennial herb with few branches, linear leaves, and blue flowers with five usually blue petals with darker veins..

…NOTE3: A variant of the Flax Plant, does have Yellow Blossoms, but this appears less common Click Here For More Information And Many Photos. .
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