Tulips & Packed

Photography Now & Then #84

In Arkansas, tulips are an annual. Native (ProFlowers) to eastern Turkey and the foothills of the Himalaya mountains, regions with a cold winter and hot, dry summer, tulips thrive in similar conditions around the world.  Unfortunately, from the perspective of growing tulips, our winters aren’t cold enough for a long enough period of time. Sometimes a bulb or two will last for more than a year or two, but tulips don’t flourish for multiple years here.

Now: Tulips blooming in west-central Arkansas, March 25, 2018 (Apple iPhone 6s)

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This was my last office space as an “in-house” instructor at Arkansas Nuclear One. After I came back as a contractor a year later, I was in several different offices along the same short stretch of hallway over the next ten years. My final office was just across the hall and two doors down.

Then: Packing up and ready to leave for retirement (until returning in 2008 as an instructor on contract), January 13, 2007 (Pentax K10D)

Photography Now & Then Notes:

• Series Photos
  • The Now photo is one that is almost always taken the day of the blog post.  In some instances, posts may be backdated if internet access is not available on the day of the photo or other reasons prevent posting Photography Now and Then.
  • The Then photo is usually a randomly selected older photograph from a batch of photos specifically “curated” for Photography Now and Then.
• Each photo in this series is an “original work” – a copyright term – of Michael Goad.
• Reference links were accessed on the date the blog post was published, unless otherwise stated.
• The title convention for Photography Now & Then blog posts evolved early on from one word related to each photo separated by “&” to usually being the first word in the caption description for each photo.