Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Shadows on a sidewalk

Absence of light
London, ON
April 2025
This photo originally shared on Instagram

Canada awakens this morning to a new political chapter, and depending on who you speak to it’s either cause for celebration or an excuse to start day-drinking.

But if we’re being brutally honest, I’m tired of it all. The meanness, the lying, the prioritzation of me over we. So I hope no one minds if I take a bit of a photographic detour, to a moment on Sunday afternoon when the shadows of overgrown grasses caught my attention as I walked beside the river with our dog.

As context, I’m always looking down when we walk together, because Schnauzers have this terrible habit of eating everything in sight. More than once we’ve arrived at home with Calli the Wonderschnauzer hiding a large chunk of rotisserie chicken in her mouth, and we’ll politely avoid discussing the other, um, stuff that she’s ingested along the way.

So as I’m policing my dog’s snout, I’m also taking in the random craziness that urban/suburban life leaves by the side of the road. Inevitably, photos are taken.

This particular pic strikes me as a perfect counter to the overwhelming influence of our current political snowglobe, where waves of breaking headlines turn into fuel for celebration for some, and limitless despair for others, depending on which colour sign you had on your lawn.

In contrast, these grassy shadows are hardly influential. In fact, nobody notices them unless they’re looking straight down. They aren’t even real: just reflected light blowing in a stiff breeze on a sunny late afternoon. Soon enough a lawnmower will eliminate the grasses behind the shadows, and no one will remember they were ever here.

I’m guessing those screaming headlines are strictly temporary, too. Nothing lasts forever. Perhaps this is as it should be.

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