Natural Disclosures
Memories of O.S.A. Lake, Killarney
Somehow, I knew I had to make this one last trip.
Decades of coming here, traces of unfinished conversation still lingering in my memory, meals around a campfire, faces and names slowly vanishing like ghosts between trees. I can't hang on to them forever.
"It's different now," all I can tell myself, the only privilege of my age left. My companions from back then are no longer around. Their faces are harder to render in my mind, photos in boxes.
I burned a few twigs in the fire pit, watching it for the sake of it while listening to whispering pines. I had seen them somewhere, in a noble gallery, I think.
Red pine at OSA Lake. Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario.
An island on the OSA Lake, Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario.
Morning camp overview on the shore of Lake Killarney, Ontario.
Red pine at OSA Lake. Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario.
Morning coffee at the old camp, sipping it slowly, watching the big lake, Lake Killarney. It's quiet like never before.