Studying Summer Nights

Edit: This picture wasn't taken today or last night, it was taken late last week - as this week, there is currently a TV series being produced by Ridley Scott that is being filmed at this location along Main Mall.

With the days getting considerably longer and the sun going down as late as about 9:10 PM right now, (I believe the latest the sunset will be is 9:22PM in late June) there is so much to enjoy about this time of year. I love it when the sun goes down very late in the summer, it just elicits such a good feeling inside of me. The UBC campus is absolutely gorgeous all of the time, but one of my favorite times is during the late evenings in the summers. I love the UBC campus so much. It is so idyllic and inspiring to me. I will post more pictures of photos of UBC (and maybe Vancouver in general) in future blog posts, but here is one for today.

For those of you not at UBC, this picture is taken from a very central part of the campus - inside Koerner Library. From this vantage point, you can see the big grey rectangular building to the left is Buchanan Tower, the Ladner Clock Tower in the middle, and the original frame and exterior of the 'main' UBC Library to the right, which was originally opened in 1925. The main UBC library is now called the "Irving K Barber Learning Center" or 'Irving" for short, and it is much larger than just the classically styled facade that you see in the picture. The library is connected to a huge area spread over 5 levels, some of which you can see as what looks like the black glass building next to the Ladner Clock Tower. The main walkway you see below the buildings in this picture is a pedestrian street aptly called "Main Mall", and this path, along with other pedestrian streets at UBC get very very busy during the day from September - April. As you can see, in the summer, there are much less people (although this picture was taken around 7:30pm, a time when there wouldn't be as many people in the fall/winter either, but you get the idea), and the campus overall tends to have a more relaxed and calm feeling, to go along with the spectacular weather we get. I actually sort of enjoy studying with nice weather outside, and more generally a nice setting - something about it makes me feel like everything is going to be okay.

The view from my study spot, at Koerner Library on the UBC Point Grey campus.