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| Almost lunchtime Grand Bend, ON July 2022 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
So we loaded the car up and took a drive. The weather, um, didn’t cooperate, and we drove through increasingly intense rainstorms almost all the way to the lake. Not my finest weather-predicting hour.
The rains eventually gave way to a grudgingly grey sky. Not a prototypically glorious sunny day, but we reminded ourselves of those two magical words: good enough.
The gulls didn’t seem to care, and eventually I trotted off for a spontaneous action photography session with them by the water.
They didn’t disappoint. And as I madly tried to track them through the sky, I thought about how much fun it was to disconnect from the rest of the world and just do one simple thing in one simple moment, to the exclusion of everything else.
I didn’t realize how much I had missed the singular joy of putting my eye up to the viewfinder and watching birds do their thing.
They may be the scavengers of the sky, but their power to light up the souls of strangers is as unmatched as it’s ever been.
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