I've noticed that many of my recent writings begin with the wonder and joy of experiencing some wonderful autumn days, an autumn more like summer than ever. These frequent references to the pleasant summer-autumn or autumn-summer atmosphere only reinforce this perception that something special is happening now weather-wise.
Some believe it is due to climate change and global warming caused by human activities. Others don't think so, they think it's just something cyclical in the earth's evolution. Opinions are divided and firm, everyone sticks to their opinion.
What if both sides were right? I mean global warming is caused by human activity overlapping with a natural warming of the planet. It could be an answer that gets everyone right and we live like brothers, right?
I like relativity. Everything is relative, someone once said, not me, of course, but an important person... Albert Einstein!
Herastrau Park in Bucharest, Romania
These thoughts, questions, and this eventual answer ran through my head as I took my hundredth walk through Herastrau, the biggest park in Bucharest. A park built around a lake that is called, strangely enough, also Herastrau!
My favorite park has gotten smaller and smaller since I got older and older). In my childhood, it seemed huge and I always lived with the fear of getting lost when walking with my parents, now, when I manage in one walk to go around the lake (approx. 5 km) the park seems small.
Small or big, different probably according to each one's perception, this park is a blessing for the inhabitants of a city quite big for this part of the world (Eastern Europe) but, above all, a very crowded city, even suffocated by cars.
According to some rankings, Bucharest is, let's not say that, the most crowded, but definitely in the top three most crowded cities in the world! It refers to the time spent in traffic.
So a place where you can forget about cars, where you can do sports, where you can sit and watch the lake and the greenery, where you can fish for relaxation, where you can meet the small animals and birds is a great gift, it's a blessing, I say this for the second time.
Life is a ...
I found this written at the entrance of a restaurant near the lake.
The dual in me or the relativist I want to be made me wonder about the meaning of this saying and the way it can be understood not when reading it but especially when hearing it said by someone...
Life is a beach
or
Life is a bitch
When I started learning English, in my early years at school, I was surprised to see, quite differently than in Romanian, that two words can be spelled differently but pronounced the same... and they mean something else entirely. I had to extract what the word was just by understanding the meaning of the sentence. It was one of my surprises. How does one understand the correct meaning of what you say in a case like that?
As far as I am concerned, both of the above statements are true and depending on the life you have, or the time of life, you can agree with the first or the second!
Desperate Cats
I also saw cats on this recent walk. I saw cats in different, strange poses.
A young coal-black cat with something in her mouth. When I approached I understood that she had caught a small water snake. A cat in a park was supposed to hunt for food but I didn't think it could catch a snake. Fortunately, a snake that is not venomous. I felt sorry for both little creatures in their fight for survival.
A little later I met the most desperate cat I have ever seen.
Actually, I don't know if she was desperate. She was behind a fence looking out through a slit. The face's expression and especially her eyes looked very sad!
It felt like he was asking for help and I didn't know what to do. I don't know anything about cats, maybe I'm wrong when I try to find human manifestations and physiognomy similarities. Anyway, these pictures impressed me and whenever I look at them I feel pain!
These park meetings made this walk different from others. It's always like this, every walk, even if done in exactly the same places, is different.
We are different, what happens around us is different... only the trees seem impassive to our wandering around them.
I love birches, I even managed to cram five in my little backyard. The whiteness of their bark enchants me!
Make a point of looking around and up and see what you can find to get shots of that otherwise you may miss.
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