Figure 1 – Clouds over the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2020.

Well, there is no denying that winter and December are upon us. Perhaps, we may soon see the glorious light of spring. My son pointed out to me that the clouds of winter in New England are distinctive. And yes that is true. A clear example were the looming clouds over Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, in Concord, MA the Saturday after Thanksgiving. It afforded a wonderful opportunity to shoot in black and white and develop in tritone. The effect is Figure 1, which very much captured the moment, reflected of course, in Shakespeare’s Richard III. 

“Now is the winter of our discontent

Made glorious summer by this sun of York;

And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house

In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths;

Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;

Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,

Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.”