It's changing by the moment, but if you can take your morning break during a sun break right. this. very. second. would be good. Early mornings are best if you can get over here -- the afternoons the quad tends to fill up with Frisbee players, selfie-takers, random amblers, and so forth, so it's harder to get an unpeopled view.

The unfocused background thing is, apparently, called bokeh, and there are whole Flickr groups devoted to it, if you care...