Fermilab 50th Anniversary

Per Wikipedia, the mallard is considered to be a species of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Unlike many waterfowl, mallards are considered an invasive species in some regions. My thoughts: They are enjoyable to watch and beautiful as well.

Walking to Fermilab for a field trip remains a local tradition.

NSF Director France Cordova and Director Nigel Lockyer admire some superconducting RF hardware during a tour of facilities in Technical Division's Industrial Center Building during the recent visit from former Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi.

Dark Matter day and Halloween celebration by the MINERvA collaboration. We had warm dark matter brownies and cold dark pineapple chocolates during our dark coffee break to celebrate the day.

Welcome to Fermilab, aka geese land.

A 270-degree pano of the Main Control Room taken with a cell phone.

Is it just me or is this maple tree trying to disguise itself as a maple leaf?

A witch gives out treats to Trick-or-Treaters in the Fermilab Village.

A look-see inside the KRSS, a look many never see.

Valerie Higgins gets into the Halloween spirit in her office on the third floor of Wilson Hall.

What is this alien space ship looking thing? The item is a liquid-neon-hydrogen pump. It was used with a special dewar Particle Physics Division's Jim Kilmer and others got from Argonne National Laboratory to store their neon-hydrogen mix. It was used to mix the liquid.

Don't forget to STOP at the Frontier Pub on the way home.

A spooky maze awaits the arrival of kids for the annual Fermilab Student and Postdoc Association Halloween Party.

Happy Halloween, MINERvA.

Annual Precision Science Lunch in the Barn

A white-tailed deer surveys the area south of Lab F SiDet on a gloomy Friday evening.

One never knows what one may see on the center table in the Main Control Room. Today I saw this hardhat with a unique sticker.

Current physics majors and a professor from Carthage College sacrifice a Friday night to take a tour of Fermilab.

Happy Halloween, Fermilab.

Walk 2 Run participants stretch after a 30-minute run on the final day of the fall session.

Alex Romanenko center, Technical Division associate division head for SRF and head of the new Superconducting Quantum Systems initiative, discusses Quantum Computing Lab facility plans in the Industrial Center Building with his group.

Israel Hernandez Alatorre does some last-minute MIKDs — microwave kinetic inductance detectors — work in Lab C North before going home.

A view into HAB

First frost at Fermilab

Fallen leaf and reflections on a breezy day at Fermilab.

Original gaslight with mantels near the Curia/ daycare areas

Brian Yanny plays piano while he and Bruce Brown practice a song together.

Outbound Pine Street fall colors

Standing behind Lab 5 in the Fermilab Village, I see this beautiful view of the morning sun shining on Lab 6. Used my iPhone SE to snap this photo.

Fall colors near Pine Street

Al Moretti retires after over 30 years of service at Fermilab. The reception is in The Huddle.

Ewa Skup learns you can fry slices from the pufferball mushrooms that pop up locally during rainy season.

Bradford Benson, of the Particle Physics Division Astrophysics Department, installs samples to test in the cryostat.

After a long dry spell, the rains return in force to Fermilab. Todd Nebel is clearly worried that the rain may not stop!

Rainy Monday in the woods at Fermilab

Underground tunnel from the Cross Gallery to Wilson Hall

Bert Gonzalez, on left, and Israel Hernandez Alatorre are both going to the Lab D cleanroom to work on MKIDs project. Bert is holding an MKIDs test module. #MobileMonday

A course given by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago January to June 1949.

The sun was out for only a very short time, and it was gray and rainy the rest of the day.

With Fermilab's iconic power poles in the background, a farmer harvests their crop, grown on the Fermilab site.

Cindy Joe demonstrates the right-hand rule to the Saturday Morning Physics students in One West while Adam Anderson controls the helmholtz coils and a video camera projects Cindy onto the big screen.

Autumn color

Carl Lundberg, left, and Troy Petersen of the AD Instrumentation Department examine the final installation of the new Booster IPM at Long 4.

Henna tattoos at the Fermilab Diwali celebration.

Diwali group photo taken during festivities at Kuhn Barn.

Photo taken during Diwali celebration at Kuhn Barn. One of the many traditions of Diwali is to apply henna temporary tattoos.

Cormorants on tree adjacent to Swan Lake

Indian community and Global Services. The youngest of Fermilab families celebrated Diwali by making a rangoli-inspired craft with rice, beans and lentils. It was a colossal mess, but look how happy they are.

Shirley Nannini and Candace Wark, artists of "Viewing Silence" on display in the Fermilab Art Gallery, and their many friends.

Karl Warburton, Jennifer Raaf and Maxine Hronek enjoy working on DUNE.

Currently starting to demolish #151 trailer near DZero Assembly Building.

As we face the bison barn from the side of Pine Street, three centuries are represented: agricultural, technological and Buick.

The lab has a combine that it uses to harvest some of the prairie plants. The cutting head was held high, and the combine drove in a seemingly random pattern in order to collect specific plants.

Bobby Santucci in the Main Injector tunnel.

Red-tailed hawk flies over NML Building.

Particle Physics Division Head Patricia McBride starts off the PPD All-Hands meeting with praises on the 50th Anniversary Open House, PPD experiments and the overall great work done by all the PPD employees through out the year. The meeting ends with a pizza and cookies lunch ... now that's my kind of meeting!

Tom Kobilarcik, left, discusses operations after the 9:00 meeting.

Beautiful October day and lunch outdoors sounds like a great idea. Seated across from his wife Silvia, Gustavo Cancelo from the Scientific Computing Division enjoys the lovely weather with her and visiting friend Horacio.

Dozens of cormorants out on Swan Lake

While walking on my lunch break, I spotted a baby snake on Batavia Road by the shoulder of the road near driveway of Site 38 Warehouse II Building.

Fermilab social media pundit Lauren Biron ponders the pristine prairie (and perhaps plans her next post?). #alittlealliteration

Joseph Joe Laccone from Security checks me back in to Fermilab. #MobileMonday

Technical Division's Frank McConologue, left, and Tom Nicol out for a lunchtime walk on a beautiful fall day.

Fog over the Main Injector as seen from Wilson Hall.

Wilson Hall on a beautiful fall day.

Sunday afternoon Bubble Chamber visit with these youngsters. What did they say when they saw the Bubble? "THAT'S COOL" — what else!

This red-tailed hawk doesn't mind the rain, or me for that matter!

Girl Scouts visit ROC West and learn about neutrino experiments from Kanika Sachdev.

Wood ducks sitting on a log enjoy the duck-like weather.

Ron has been coming out to Fermilab to use the Dog Training Area for years. Augie, his Brittany spaniel, named after Augustana College, finishes up his 6-mile run and is a satisfied 6-year old pup!

Wally Kissel, left, and Steve Hahn are great buddies.

Coming in Pine Street just after sunrise, looking over the ponds in front of the high-rise.

The Festival of Lights Committee met to finalize preparations for next week's Festival of Lights Celebration. Please join us at Kuhn Barn next Friday, October 20, at 5:30 p.m. for authentic Indian food, Dandiya dancing and other fun activities!

This caterpillar was gathering sun rays during the lunchtime hour. He is about two-and-a-half inches long, and we carried him to safety.

Long may she wave!

Lunch time in the Wilson Hall atrium

This is Carla Bonifazi, a visiting scientist from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, working on CONNIE and SBND with Juan Estrada and others at Fermilab.

Stefan Gruenendahl sits in the Lab C clean room and is bundling and reorganizing the wires into bundles by module - "it was just getting too messy" he said.

Steve Holmes, project manager for PIP-II, introduces the project to the Director's Review Team in One West.

Columbus Day. This means an empty microbonding cleanroom at SiDet because parents are home with their kiddos. Happy Columbus Day! Mobile Monday

Driving around by the bison area and saw this view and just had to stop to take a photo of it. Fermilab all lit up.

Wood duck in golden light at Main Ring pond.

A board used for counting electronic pulses

A new exhibit is installed in the Fermilab Art Gallery. Photographs by Candace Wark and Shirley Nannini.

The Saturday Morning Physics tour ends with questions and answers in the atrium.

Elliott McCrory presents a lecture on modern physics, focusing on special relativity, to the Saturday Morning Physics students. One-hundred forty students have registered for this semester of SMP.

Site 67 seen from NML

Charmonium experiment E-760 / E-835 at AP-50 ex Antiproton Accumulator, 1990-2000.

Duane Newhart, foreground, and Dan Johnson busy running the Operations Department in the Accelerator Division.

From left, Christopher, Saul and CraVon, and the rest of this class from Henry W Cowherd Middle School in Aurora, Illinois, enjoy a fantastic October day studying insects they catch on the Fermilab prairie.

October colors at Fermilab.

Waiting out the - what is that stuff? Rain. We haven’t seen rain in a long time at Fermilab.

What a great group of workers! Thanks, Art Gallery Committee, for your hard work! Pictured are Margie Nagaitsev, Anne Mary Teichert and Ana Zanic.

What did one ear of corn say to the other ear of corn? It looks like something is stalking us! I know, it’s corny.

These common asters attract these yellow butterflies.

"Paul Czarapata" by Elliott McCrory

Victor Yarba, right, Technical Division associate division head, is shown here with Andrei Lunin, one of the division's senior engineers in the SRF Development Department.

Carrington lives near the lab and brings her pup Archie to the Dog Training Area at Fermilab.

My last sunset at Fermilab, the end of a wonderful experience.

Sunrise over Lake Logo