The Driscoll Center In The Spring

I recently was driving past the Driscoll Center - located in the heart of the University of Denver campus - the other day and snapped the above photograph through the windshield of my car.  This is the student center for the university, and consists of two buildings on either side of East Evans Avenue, connected by the bridge seen in the photo.  The building on the north was recently torn down, and a new "Community Commons" is being built to replace it.  The building on the south side is where the DU Bookstore is located, and where I worked as the Finance Manager for almost 30 years until the university outsourced the store to Follett Higher Education Group, with no offer of alternative employment at the university for bookstore staff (and don't even get me started on this subject).  Every April the trees down the middle of East Evans Avenue bloom, and the view of them from the bridge is inspiring.  Then every April Denver gets a spring snowstorm, and all those pretty blossoms die for another year.  And this year was no exception.  If the storm exactly one week ago today didn't finish them off, the one this past Thursday definitely did (I checked).  But it is good to know there are still some things you can count on in these turbulent times.  Like Mother Nature.