Highbury Avenue in fog

Muted canopy
London, ON
November 2022
This photo originally shared on Instagram

While the good citizens of #LdnONT slept on Wednesday night, the fog rolled in and reshaped the landscape.

Since life doesn’t stop just because the atmosphere decides to put on a show, our daughter and I found ourselves driving through the pea soup on the way to campus, another early morning moment of parenthood I wouldn’t trade for anything.

After I dropped her off and turned for home, a little voice in my head suggested a quick pre-workday photowalk - and who was I to disagree? You wouldn’t be surprised to hear I had already packed my camera because you just never know.

Which explains how I soon found myself wandering along Highbury Avenue as I alternately looked for foggy scenes of opportunity and watched the time to ensure I wasn’t late getting back. I shot photos through four lanes of high-speed traffic, the drivers largely ignorant of the show going on around them.

I wasn’t out long, as the sun soon started to burn off the murk. But as it turned out I didn’t need all that much time to capture in pixels what I had already imagined in my mind. Sometimes the plan just seems to fall into place.

I don’t know when the next foggy morning will present itself. But like any other sorta-random act of nature, I’ll keep my camera close by. Because good things never last, even if we wish they would.

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