Belmont University lies well within the city limits of Nashville, Tennessee. It’s surrounded by typical Nashville gritty streets and old two-story brick facades, but somehow, the big brick buildings create a sanctuary the city’s dirt can’t penetrate. When I parked my car in the (clearly marked and free) visitor’s parking right beside the school, I felt a sense of shelter. Everything seemed so quiet, so peaceful, so right within this little liberal arts bubble, especially with the soft snow still clinging to it.
The cold froze this fountain into an enchanting ice cascade.Although the ice on the fountain is frozen sculpture-still, ice is water after all, and water is dynamic. This sculpture is still in glacial formation… one drip at a time.
The quad is so beautiful, a special observation point keeps tourists like me out of the way of sidewalk pedestrians. I was impressed and stood in the road to take this picture.
On the lawn stood a little wishing well surrounded by tiny pansies. Snow crusted the flowers, but they were still persistent and vivid in the cold. I saw the snow, the flowers, the wishes in the well and I thought all those wishes might be for summer.
