Plymouth

I was up early—the sun rises quite early in Saskatoon—got my things packed and ready, and went out for a little walk to get my daily photos done. Travel days and full work days tend to make taking photographs a bit difficult, and I hate having to do emergency photos.

I met up with R for a little walk after I had done my solo stroll, and we walked through much of the area I had already covered that morning, and we came to her community garden plot, which was in need of weeding, hoeing, digging and planting. Across the street sat this vintage Plymouth. I have a thing for photographing old cars, and did so with my DSLR, too.

We got back to her place to get her car to go downtown for coffee and a muffin. On the drive back to get my backpack, I guess I was a little quiet because—as we crossed the river—she asked me what I was thinking. I told her something like, "Oh... leaving Saskatoon" or something to that effect. I guess I don't recall exactly what I said, but I recall exactly what I was thinking:

PALIMPSEST

Farewell, Saskatoon. Farewell to your prairie-borne flatland streets. So long to your wide-river crossings. Au'voir to your much-too-early sunrises. Good-bye to your palimpsests.

I came. I saw. I conjured.

And now, now that I'm leaving, you can breathe your long deep friendly foreign sigh of relief.

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