In honor of the 100th installment of the Photo of the Variable Time Period series, I’ve gone back to the beginning. No, not the beginning of tPotVTP — that started with one image last August — but the beginning of my foray into digital photography. I got my Canon Digital Rebel XT on 31 August 2005, and … well, you can see what’s happened since then.

Anyway, a week and a half after I got my Rebel XT, I took the picture that was destined to be the 100th Photo of the Variable Time Period.

The shade of the Irish (10 September 2005).

Official Mindreader Aerospace Engineer Becky enjoys a superb shade tree on the campus of Notre Dame.