Norma and Eli

It hasn't rained in a couple of weeks and my little garden plot was dry. So I was standing there, hose in hand, giving it a dousing when these two people, walking slowly along the pond's edge saw me and we nodded back and forth. They came to the fence and we started talking. They were in town from 700 km away for her radiation treatments.

Between treatments they were out for fresh air.

We talked twenty minutes or more and we all enjoyed it. She asked if she could take my picture and I asked the same in return. I had only my telephone in my pocket – both digital and film cameras were in the car, too far for a spontaneous picture. So my phone it was.

Then, they returned to their slow walk and I to tending my garden.