As part of our visit with our dear friends, the Gaubs, who are down in Indiana visiting family, we took a bit of a tour of the campus of the University of Notre Dame yesterday, a decidely Catholic school. We are not Catholic, but we were still able to enjoy the fine architecture and the well-kept grounds. And, of course, the bookstore (but that's another story).
We walked through those well-kept grounds, taking in all the marvelous grass and trees and statuary of various saints and monks and bishops and priests (but, alas, not football players); and we entered the Cathedral, spending some amount of time walking carefully through the incense-laden auditorium and observing the pews and prayer benches and reliqueries and ... statuary; then we left the Cathedral and walked around the back side to the Grotto, a low-slung, rock-covered opening in the ground in which are many, many candles, and some ... statuary.
I took pictures of some of the statuary around the Grotto, and some of the Grotto itself.
And then I was stung by a bee.
Coincidence? I think not.
Those are Da Vinci bees!