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Thursday, March 25, 2021

Potential on a near-frozen beach

Warmer days will return
Port Stanley, ON
March 2021
This photo originally shared on Instagram


It's always quite the experience to visit a place out-of-season, like the beach before the last shackles of winter have been thrown off.

If you squeeze your eyes shut just so, you might be able to feel what this place will be like in summer. But for now, the sand is still packed down and icky from months spent under ice and snow. Empty beach houses sit quietly across the way, and clumps of driftwood litter the landscape for as far as the eye can see.

There may be little sign of human activity here today, but Mother Nature has clearly been busy here these past few months.

I've never been a fan of sticky hot afternoons and crowd scenes, anyway, so I'm just as content to be here today, parka pulled tight to ward off the vicious Arctic winds blowing in off of Lake Erie.

In fact, it's kind of up to us to find the magic in a space no matter the weather. Because if we waited for the so-called perfect conditions, part of me thinks we'd be waiting a while. It makes much more sense to enjoy what we've been given, now.

Besides, perfection is neither singular nor exclusive. And my perfect looks a lot different than anyone else's.

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