This site is usually dedicated to providing the transparent experience of teenage life at Proctor, but we're missing 352 adolescents, so I'll share some images of a vacant campus in the heat of mid-July. This has been the hottest July on record, and Proctor Pond is choked with lily pads.

 

I would hope that this page provides some amusement to students who never see this place during the dog days of summer, and that it will pique the interest of new students who await the start of school with expected nervous anticipation.

 

Sprinklers are hard at work keeping playing fields in great shape for sports camps that begin in about seven weeks.

 



Those of us who live here take for granted the sheer beauty of the place!

 

At left, a bee scores on a cone flower in Alice's Garden.

 

Wildflowers at the foot of Mud Pond Trail.



Proctor is blessed with extensive woodlands crisscrossed by hiking trails that welcome kids to explore some of the remote sites on campus, such as Elbow Pond, where this fellow posed for me this morning:

 

This is Elbow Pond from the fire ring at the south end, looking north at Ragged Mountain. The Mountain Classroom facility, swim dock, sauna and polar swim area are on right shore.

 

Sunlight plays on stones in the shallows.



A thick mat of pine needles creates a virtual carpet on the bluff above the swim dock.

 

One of the hidden gems on campus (and there are many,) is Hopkins Pond. In cooperation with New Hampshire Fish and Game, we provide public access to Hopkins, which is stocked with trout.