Winter still sucks

Snowy meteors from space
London, ON
February 2020
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Another day, another scene from the snowy wasteland we call home.

Just like the last snowy photo I shot (here), what you see here was probably gone soon after I left it behind, reshaped by the relentlessly cold winds blowing in off the lake.

I don't know why some scenes merit being remembered, while others aren't worth even a first glance, let alone a second.

I know it's impossible to remember everything we see, or capture every moment. There's only so much time, energy, and bandwidth. So we take with us what matters most - and leave the rest in the shadows of history.

But this rectangular frame of snow, on the edge of a neighbor's lawn, somehow ended up committed to pixels. For some reason, that's where I stopped while walking the dog, and that's what I chose to look at while she buried her snout in an adjacent snowbank.

Because that's where the two of us were destined to linger on a cold, stormy Saturday night.

Sounds like as good a reason as any to explain why this particular memory got carried forward, while so many others were not. And as is so often the case when I get to reflect back, I'm glad this was the one that did.

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