Same trees. Different view.

Pray here, if that's your thing
London, ON
August 2020
This photo originally shared on Instagram

These trees really do make you feel small, don't they? As if you're an insignificant, transient being standing at the very altar of a place that's been slowly evolving since the beginning of time.

Come to think of it, that's exactly what we are. Mere blinks of history, easily missed when we zoom the timeline out. We think we run this place. Dominate it, even. Well, we think wrong.

As my daughter and I walked through this resonant valley cloaked in a hushed silence you could feel more than hear, we kept reminding each other that we needed to come back, needed to spend more time here. 

And indeed we will. But we're under no illusions: We'll still be all but invisible, historical afterthoughts through the broader lens of how the planet tells time.

But for a couple of all-too-temporary visitors to this magical place, that'll be more than enough.

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 BTW, this scene looks familiar, no?

I shared a very similar shot three photos ago. Have a look in my feed. I'll wait.

And we're back...

These are the same trees, only with a slightly different perspective: Wider angle, lens angled up instead of straight-on. This one was shot a minute after the first, another example of seemingly small changes netting big differences.

But perhaps these two images aren't so different after all. They're really only two ways of looking at the same scene.

Which, come to think of it, feels like yet another life lesson.

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