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| Singular London, ON December 2021 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Cold, windy, grey, with a flat light that reminded me of Soviet-era street scenes where everyone’s huddled against the seen and the unseen and no one cracks a smile.
I probably should have headed home as soon as I started to lose feeling in my fingertips five minutes after first setting out. The ideas just weren’t percolating in my head, and Planet Earth wasn’t cooperating.
But something told me to keep at it, to wander further and keep looking. For what I had no idea. But this is the pandemic…what else is there to do?
This photo is the third of three trees I came across on this initially ill starred walk. The more time I spent here, the more I saw, the more reasons I had to stay out.
Perhaps I’ve been looking at it all wrong. Maybe the cold, windy, grey days are the ones that offer up the most. Maybe they encourage us to look at things a little differently. Maybe the results feel better when we have to struggle a bit more in the process.
Or maybe we should just shoot the damn trees whenever we can carve out the time to do so.
Because they may not look like this the next time we’re here.
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