Through the Lens: A Campus in Bloom
Photo Essay by Scott Kissell
A flowering pink redbud tree and a white flowering tree frame the Benton Hall cupola in the background.
A student walks up the steps towards Benton Hall with the Bell Tower on the left and a white flowering tree on the right.
Students walk toward Armstrong Student Center on a path with white flowering serviceberry trees.
A closeup of magnolia blossoms with Harrison Hall in the background.
Students sit at tables on the Armstrong Student Center’s outdoor plaza with a flowering white tree.
Two students with a laptop sit on a stone bench in the Fine Arts Plaza with white flowering trees in the background.
A red “M” banner framed by tree with white blossoms.
Three students walk towards Millett Hall with a Miami banner and white flowering trees in the foreground.
A student studies on a stone bench in the Fine Arts Plaza with a row of white flowering trees.
Students sit at tables in the Armstrong Student Center outdoor plaza framed by white flowering trees.
Four hammocks with a student in each, hung between trees with yellow daffodils below.
A closeup of yellow daffodils.
Students walking on Slant Walk with a closeup of the Slant Walk brick gate and a flowering redbud.
A group of students sit in green kayaks and watch an instructor in a red kayak on Western pond.
Six students sitting on the steps of the Freedom Summer Memorial with Kumler Chapel in the background.
President Gregory Crawford and Dr. Renate Crawford talk to a visiting family near the Sundial plaza with MacCracken Hall in the background.
A student in a red graduation cap and gown and pink face mask poses with MacCracken Hall in the background.
A beautiful rainbow arches over the Pulley Tower; white flowering trees catch the sun rays with dark clouds in the background.
The south end of a double rainbow appears to end at the Pulley Tower.
A rainbow centered over the Pulley Tower with dark clouds in the background.
A single rainbow appears to end at a cupola on top of a residence hall.
A group of students play a game with a ball on Cook Field with a double rainbow in the background.
A rainbow and Warfield Hall frame a woman posing with a graduation cap.
A stunning wide angle view of an entire rainbow centered over Pulley Tower with storm clouds receding.
Snow in spring: Looking outside through a circle in a bike rack towards the cupola on Harrison Hall.
Flowering redbud trees dusted with snow frame the iconic view of Upham Arch.
Two students on the path toward the sundial with MacCracken Hall in the background and flowering trees and grass dusted with snow.
Snow in spring: snow dusts beautiful pink and yellow tulips and trees at the Formal Gardens.
The same view of pink and yellow tulips and white daffodils at the Formal Gardens on a warm sunny day with a student studying on a bench in the sunshine.
Reflections after the rainbow: Looking west toward the setting sun, the Pulley Tower is reflected in puddles in the Cook Field parking lot.