Monday, October 06, 2025

Power up

Structural
London, ON
October 2025
This photo originally shared on Instagram

I’ll remember this one more for how it was captured than for how it looks.

The moment starts out like so many others: I’m busy going about my life - on this particular morning, riding my bike on a path through London’s east end - when I see something that makes me pause and wonder: a high-tension electricity tower, one of countless such examples dotting the fringes of the neighbourhood.

I think to myself that nobody pays attention to them until the lights go out. So I stop the bike and ponder a reasonable means of paying attention.

Now, it’s an unseasonably hot and humid morning (in October!) so I’m ready for a bit of a break before finishing the ride. I lie back on the soft grass directly beneath the tower and like what I see. Before long I’m skittering a few centimetres this way and that to find the absolute centre of the scene.

Other cyclists roll past and ask if I’m ok. I assure them I am, and thank them for their kind concern.

Eventually I find the sweet spot, take the shot, then get back on the bike. Blades of dried grass are stuck in my shoes, my helmet, and from the itchiness around back, my shirt, as well. I smile at the inadvertent reminder of another strange photographic moment in a life seemingly filled with them.

Worth it, I tell myself, as the breeze grabs the itchy blades of grass from my clothes and scatters them behind.

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