Gaze into the Heart of Open Sky and Main

I'm a city girl born and raised less than 5 kilometers from the corner of Portage and Main. I grew up in St.Boniface closer to the edges of Windsor Park than to the Provencher Bridge. My mother lived in several areas throughout old St.Boniface. Always close enough that I could walk to her place or ride my scratched and scraped BMX over. I was the first girl in my neighborhood to have a BMX...a boy's bike and it was something that I was quite proud of. I was in a hurry to scuff up my shiny BMX ...trying to set the record for the number of friends I could double and working up the courage to head straight down the paths of the ravine in my old neighborhood. Head first and straight down. I wore my long hair in braids partly in homage of my childhood hero Laura Ingalls and partly in homage to my old roots to the area where I grew up...Before I was eight I had a favorite climbing tree and what I called my quiet "thinking spot" , a stoop of a rock next to the creek near my house...with my thoughts wandering and inquisitive. I grew up with the vague idea that I should like to be a writer of some sort one day. I look back and appreciate how fortunate I was to grow up during that simpler time in the middle of a city like Winnipeg, yet be steps away from the woods and the quiet creeks...and the big sky vistas that my favorite tree gave me as I sat perched up amongst the green green leaves. - here is a photo I took on a recent weekend away to the woods in these parts where I now live.