If you were offered a lunch in total comfort, with the food served in precious and valuable utensils, in a comfortable chair and your palate delighting with each delicious bite, accompanied afterwards by the best wine… yes, yes, it wouldn't be bad at all to accept this, right?
And if the second option offered to you is a small picnic bag with prepared food, half-cooled when lunchtime came, a plastic fork, a stone bench and a stone table, for drinks you have bottled water? Plus you don't have servants but the birds keep you company...? What would you choose?
Oh, I almost forgot to mention that in this second option, you could have this view just a few steps from the picnic area. So, what would you choose?
You can already see what my option was, although no one offered me the first one haha, but my decision would definitely fall on this picnic variant. Yesterday I had to come to work in the late morning, I also had other errands to do and before I continued the afternoon classes I had time for my lunch. I prepared it at home and packed it, with the idea that I would eat it on the beach. In the last minute, I decided to change the place where my lunch would be consumed.
It is the path that leads to the lighthouse which we did so many times while living here. Later, somehow we stopped visiting it often, I guess life becomes busy and you forget about these cool places. When you don't have them close anymore then you start to revisit them. That is how we are with many things in our lives. 🤷♀
My shadow was there too.
There are a few stone benches in the picnic area of the Sierra Helada Natural Park. Two of them were already occupied - other people had the same idea to have their lunch there.
This was one free reserved for me. And my lunch was hidden in that blue/turquoise bag.
The feast can begin! 😁
In this little walk of mine around the picnic area, I noticed how many conifers suffered from the damage caused by the droughts this summer. Many trees have dried up, the fact that you see brown trees is not because of autumn. The trees should be green.
There has been no rain for several months and much of the vegetation has dried up. Mother Nature is powerful, she will somehow restore herself, I know. We, humans, have done a lot of damage, however, nature will continue its course if one day the human race disappears. Until then, we should respect the laws of Mother Nature and respect all the beings that live in her. Especially the little birds that come to visit you while you're having lunch.
Let's not fool ourselves. They didn't come because they love me, but because they expected some morsels from me. I shared what I could, but I ran out of bread at the end, so I didn't even have any for myself.
