This photograph is taken on the border between the United States and Canada ... Minnesota and Ontario.  This row of planks is the nicer, smoother part of the portage between Knife Lake and Lake Saganaga?  I've been here twice ... going the opposite direction both times.  The photograph serves as a link to a host of memories on the day ... the series of days ... that were two very different canoe trips.  Often in life we revisit the same places, only to discover that they are already inhabited in our memory and yet each time we take a different perspective and add a new perspective.  I'm mindful that as we approach the holiday season... and in particular Thanksgiving just around the corner... that we bring memories to that table, some that are bittersweet and others that are joyous - and we form new memories.  The path leading up to this walkway is rocky and steep ... easy to lose footing and take a bad fall ... or is it the path that leads away from this smooth access?  Guess I'll have to just wait and see?