The tulips given to me by friends
are nearly spent. I’ve enjoyed photographing them.
There’s a peculiar beauty in their decline.

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development,
invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” —Edgar Allan Poe

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes
home happy and life lovely.” —Louisa May Alcott

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
But you are eternity and you are the mirror.” —Kahlil Gibran