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| Quarter turn London, ON August 2024 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Never mind I’ve only got 32 minutes of good light left and I still have lots of ground to cover before I get back home. Sometimes, that photographer’s itch makes us do stupid things.
As I shoot off a few abstract frames, swarms of bugs have their way with me in the sticky hot air of a classic southern Ontario summer’s evening. So I wrap it up and get back to pedalling.
Because I’m stubborn, I refuse to shorten the rest of the route, and am rewarded with a somewhat frightening and inadvisable ride through the forest in near-darkness. Sometimes the stupid decisions just keep on coming, don’t they?
And yet…
(I say that a lot.)
…I wouldn’t remember the ride as fondly if I hadn’t taken the break, hadn’t taken the time to smell the wildflowers, hadn’t taken the road less travelled. It would have been a ride like any other. Instead, it’ll remain burned in my brain as the one that made me nervous, that challenged me a little more than usual, that painted pictures I wouldn’t have otherwise gotten to see.
So maybe it wasn’t my stupidest decision on two wheels after all.
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