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| They're everywhere, for now London, ON October 2019 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Sometimes, you wake up and realize that lovely red sugar maple beside the boulevard near your house summarily decided to drop its entire canopy while you slept. Just like that.
So did all the other maple trees, because apparently they speak to each other. And the ground is now a blazing mess of wet leaves tracing an impossibly diverse mess as far as the eye can see.
The winds are howling, driven by the low, steel-grey clouds racing overhead. The ground is slick underfoot, random leaves sticking to my increasingly soggy shoes as the dog tugs on her leash and I consciously try to remain vertical.
Speaking of the dog, her ears are pinned back by the wind, and she clearly isn't enjoying herself. She keeps trying to turn for home.
It won't take long for this reddish wet landscape to morph yet again into a dull grey. Then frozen white. Then slushy brown. Then fresh-grown green.
Because the cycles never really end, and they unfold on their own schedule despite our thinking we control any of it.
We don't. But what a ride it is.
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