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| Chaotically red London, ON December 2020 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Today, with wispy traces of snow covering the branches and the path beneath our feet, it looked and felt like a different place. Not worse. Not better. Just different.
As we slowly walked further into the hushed valley, what had at first looked like an unending blur of grey, white, and dirty-white started to slowly show us its color. It had been there all along, of course, but this late in the year it wasn't as obvious.
I almost felt my brain shifting into a lower gear as it picked up on the subtler shades, the patterns, the textures that had been hidden by leaves just a couple of months earlier. With the branches now virtually empty, it felt like there was so much more to see.
Indeed there was. This impossibly messy knot of branches would have been completely covered by leaves the last time we were here. Yet this time, it was a perfectly uncovered, perfectly red study in texture and light.
I'm guessing today's lesson from today's walk, then, is a comforting one: there's always something new to see, or some new way to see, whenever we return to the familiar.
We just have to allow ourselves to return in the first place. Our eyes will take it from there.
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