There’s Still Time to Savor Summer

The farmer’s market on Roosevelt Island.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York TimesThe sun now sets before 8 p.m., Labor Day is fast approaching and the back-to-school sales are well underway.

This moment on the calendar is often bittersweet, hinting as it does at cooler temperatures and the move of activities back indoors. This year, the added anxiety around the resurgence of the coronavirus and rise of the highly contagious Delta variant does not help.

It is worth accepting that we can rarely accomplish everything we want to do in a summer (looking at you, the kayaking trip I have talked about for three straight years). But in the last few weeks of warm weather and late sunsets, it’s…