Figure 1 – White Tulips, Gloucester, MA, May 18, 2019. (c) DE Wolf 2019.

Well, it is Labor Day. And this, of course, is the ceremonial end of summer. It is an exciting time in photography, because it welcomes the coming of September light. In reflection, I am recalling the other end, images that I took around Memorial Day, and I found this photograph taken on May 18 in Gloucester, MA of a beautiful bed of white tulips. They were just past their peak and in inevitable decline. We may look back and we may with anticipation look forward, but in reality we possess only the present moment.

“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” ― Marcus Aurelius