It’s very quiet on campus this summer.
Generally, after the students leave to go home in May, we are immediately full of Strawberry Festival traffic. Bands and Arts & Crafts and Quilt Shows and Queens and Princesses
Not in 2020.
In June, we generally have a couple thousand United Methodists arriving for Annual Conference. Meetings and greetings. Wesley Chapel full.
Not in 2020.
In July we generally have a few weeks where the Gifted Camp and the Summer Research students are seemingly everywhere for a few weeks.
Not in 2020.
But, this year, with all of the deafening quiet going on, something strange and wonderful happened.
Jim Watson was the first to notice. As he was doing his daily walk around campus, he saw a female deer, obviously about to become a mother. He continued his walk, and when he came back around to that side of campus he noticed
As if that wasn’t enough, there was another surprise…
The next day they were bedded down between the library and the English Annex.
The following morning, my husband and I were walking along, and the orange flowers beside the sundial started to move…there was no wind. If you look closely, you can see the fawn hiding in the bushes.
While I was quietly tiptoeing in to get this photo, Gary whispered that I should turn to my right and take a look…
Yes, it is quiet on campus in the summer of 2020, but there is still life.
It shows the beauty of nature.
Or, as Jim said in his Facebook post when he first told about the fawns, “sometimes nature is too pure and beautiful to believe, and life offers miracles every day if you choose to open your eyes.”
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