From dark night to bright white

The landscape of campus can transform in just a few hours, as these photos from the past few days illustrate starkly.

Branches of two elderly elms frame the Music Hall clock tower. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

Commuters stream home toward the day’s fading glow in the west in this time exposure from the walkway over University Avenue. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

Students bundled against a subzero wind chill and blowing snow cross the Park Street walkway this week during southern Wisconsin’s first big snow of the season. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

The University Club arches shelter a viewer from the snowbound scene in the morning out on Library Mall. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

Faculty, staff and students scrunch their way up and down Bascom Hill at class change. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

One of the legion of workers who labor to keep campus passageways clear blows snow from a sidewalk. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

In time-honored tradition, vet med grad student Jessica Hann (front) and senior Carl Haydysch cop cafeteria trays to sled down Observatory Hill. (Photo: Jeff Miller)