The ice beneath the dog's paws

Nature's been busy again
London, ON
December 2021
This photo originally shared on Instagram

I tend to look down when I walk, primarily because I fear tripping over something unseen, and the nasty things that happen when gravity gets involved.

The dog does this, too, but I'm sure she's just following her nose. When you've got four legs and the bulk of your 15 pounds is distributed right around where the average person's ankles would be, winter is a lot less frightening.

It's given me a new appreciation for what's going on literally right beneath us. Like this icy patch in the grass. It looked, I don't know, different. And the dog seemed to enjoy walking on it, her paws leaving tiny radial cracks in the brittle surface.

It was a scene, and a moment, that begged to be remembered. Who was I to say no?

We often think winter is a monolithic landscape, a blanket that starts out white before slowly devolving into a slushy, dirty mess.

We might want to take a second look. Or a third.

Because winter isn't monolithic. Nothing is. Nobody is, either.

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