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| Still here London, ON October 2024 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Most of autumn’s colours have long since faded to near-grey, the landscape a muted riot of monotones now melting to black as night approaches.
I notice a single leaf hanging onto an otherwise empty branch. No colour to speak of. Just a washed out, rotted leftover of the season.
Yet this leaf, for reasons I can’t fully appreciate, is the one I’m staring at. “Why?” is a silly question to ask in the forest. So I don’t.
I think it might have something to do with tenacity. For long after the autumn colour-seekers have packed their cameras away and gone home for the season, the woods continue to write their next chapter in a book they’ve been writing for longer than we’ve been around.
I’m thankful I’m out here alone among the grey, rotted leaves, learning their nuanced, textured stories long after everyone else decided there were no more stories to tell.
As I tuck the camera away and start the quiet walk home, I wonder about how storytellers decide when their stories end - and realize too many of us are putting our pens (and cameras) down too soon.
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