Shadows on brick

Making an impression
London, ON
October 2022
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Along the side of our house, there’s a wild lilac bush that spends a few weeks every spring stealing everyone’s attention, then the rest of the year tucked in, ignored, under the protective cover of our beloved maple tree.

On this brilliantly sunny autumn morning, it casts long shadows across the brick, its nearly empty branches blowing gently in the breeze.

For now, the maple’s leaves frame the scene, but soon enough they, too, will fall victim to those same winds. Nothing lasts forever, after all.

Oddly enough, this is the first time in recent memory that I’ve stopped to take in the shadowy scene. We live inside these very walls, and I walk past this spot multiple times per day. Yet it almost never occurs to me to take in the shadows playing on the brickwork.

While I process this strange oversight, the dog quietly sniffs the grass at my feet. I remind myself to stop and smell the roses - or lilacs - more often than I have been.

Or stare at the shadows. Whatever the scene, we don’t get enough of them to begin with.

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