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| Out of time St. Laurent, QC February 2024 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Like this crushed pack of Marlboros in the frozen corner of a crumbling parking lot, discovered as we got back into the car while running errands.
I was of two minds about it as I processed the scene in my mind.
As ticked off as I was at humanity’s tendency to indifferently ruin the planet, I was equally fascinated by the spontaneous appearance of a brand I hadn’t thought about in decades.
Curiosity won out as I crouched beside the open car door and fast-composed this bizarro still-life scene. My wife, bless her, patiently watched and waited in the cold as I played photographer behind the tattered Tim Hortons coffee shop.
Like every experience with her, I learned something from this one, too. That even in the middle of a dark day amid too many dark days, there’s life - however strange - to be found in the spaces where we normally wouldn’t look.
So we look anyway.
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Marlboro Man, February 2012
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