"Summer is a promissory note signed in June,
its long days spent and gone before you know it,
and due to be repaid next January."
- Hal Borland
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt."— Susan Sontag