A bridge

This is a trestled railroad bridge that runs over the highway between Whitecourt and Edmonton. I've come to know it well. We drive under it every time we go down to Edmonton for a weekend getaway / shopping trip. 

However, the picture was taken three summers ago, when I was driving from the North toward Saskatchewan during a strange roadtrip, an opportunity to have an extended farewell to a friend who was moving there from Inuvik. Little did I know then that I would become familiar with this stretch of highway just a few years later, and that I would no longer be in the North.

In another month, I'll pass under this bridge once more, toward another phase in my life, toward growing more fully into myself and who I will become.