The ice person cometh

Just hanging around above the porch
London, ON
January 2022
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Nature's been putting on a show just under the overhang on the front of the house. So the least I could do was engage in a bit of shutter therapy from the porch.

Call it a tiny attempt to find joy in an unexpected place. Or a coping mechanism.

In my weird world of everyday photography, the humble icicle has become a bit of a recurring theme, a reliable source of optical inspiration that comes with some pretty sticky time constraints that essentially boil down to this: shoot now or forever hold your peace.

Because it likely won't be around later. Or maybe it will be, but the conflicting forces of heat and cold will have reshaped it into something else, another story begging to be told before it disappears for good.

I like the context of the icicle: we don't control them. Nature does. We're just observers who tell stories about the things that materialize in front of our very eyes.

Sometimes literally on our doorstep.

More to come.

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