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Sunday, January 12, 2025

A spooky morning in the woods

Protection from the unknown
London, ON
December 2023
This photo originally shared on Instagram

On an early winter’s morning, I peer deeply into the foggy woods and see what I think is spookiness.

At first glance, it isn’t hard to appreciate how a scene like this might make a great horror movie poster background. But that initial sense of foreboding seems to soften the longer I stand there.

There’s a sense of peaceful quiet here that stands as an antidote to the four lanes of traffic that border it. The craggy trees, now devoid of their leafy cover, still manage to embrace the sky above the forest floor, protective of everything underneath.

And if you close your eyes and just listen, the soft soundtrack of the forest soon begins to play its subtle tune. It’s there. We just have to lean in a little.

Indeed, as I cover my lens and head for home, I smile at the notion that I was once scared of the woods, but no longer am. The walk home, among streets overrun with traffic, will be infinitely more dangerous than anything I might have encountered under the trees.

Why, again, am I not hanging out here more often?

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