Bittersweet

Winding down now; the last days of summer, 2011. It'll all be over in a week's time, another summer's sun extinguished; and while we wait for a new one, through a long, dark winter, we all know that it's one less we have left to enjoy.

The Boethian Wheel turns and turns, inexorably; our fortunes rise and fall to rise again before declining. But we are Modern People; we know how to Manage. Manage pain and suffering, manage the goods times and bad. Should we attempt to make our wheels of fortune smaller? Should we try to slow them down? Or should we learn from their remorseless revolutions - each one a small lesson learnt for the next time...?

Above: just before sunrise - six minutes past six this morning, from the balcony. Next week, equinox; sunset and sunrise around quarter past six in the evening and morning respectively.

Above: fallow field, ul. Dumki. The noon-day sun catching the late-flowering weeds. Still warm enough for one layer. Soon, we'll be wrapping up warm - and staying that way until spring 2012.

Mellow tones on the działeczka, ul. Kórnicka, Jeziorki, late morning. Time to reflect, and from the gathering melancholia, draw wisdom.

This time last year:
Commuting made easy

This time two years ago:
Work starts on the Warsaw Southern Bypass

This time three years ago:
Today's smashes

This time four years ago:
Nissan meets its nemesis - ul. Poloneza