Won’t you shine a light, the one-handed angel said on that cloudy day

This photo and the one before were taken in Mainz, in the cemetary next to the University. I spent the weekend in Mainz at the GAAS (German Association for American Studies) conference (more about which later this week, I think), and spent one of the breaks wandering around the cemetary, resting my brain and taking in some peace and quiet.

Now I need to go sleep – my alarm is going to ring at 3:30am, since my colleague M and I will try to observe the transit of Venus (fingers crossed for a cloudless sky until 6am, please – after that it can rain all week and I promise I won’t mind :-) ).