A glorious afternoon, bearing with it the hope that springs eternal*. Time for another long walk with Eddie. Three quarters of the way down ul. Trombity, we spotted a tree that was showing the very first signs of budding leaves.
I continued looking for the entire duration of our walk for other such trees, but clearly this was a first in the neighbourhood.
To the end of Trombity, over the tracks, across the fields to Dawidy Bankowe (
above). "The Banking Davids". Why the village was called that I don't know; the main Dawidy is to the north, while Dawidy Poduchowne was the old name for the bit of Dawidy on the Jeziorki side of the railway line.
On to Zgorzała via Zamienie (we discovered a rutted mud track called ul. Wrobelka linking the two villages). In Zgorzała I stop to photograph this well-know local landmark, a hand-painted sign advertising a car mechanic's workshop, bearing the image of a Ford Escort. In the days of billboard ads printed in their thousands, it's good to see the work of individual sign painters surviving the ravages of time and human capriciousness. Long may it grace Zgorzała.
Next we trudged over fields, down more muddy tracks, past the new housing estate being built in Iwiczna. Crossing the railway line again, we passed behind Mysiadło, which is also quickly filling up with new houses (
below). The fallow field in the foreground is filled with
wrotycz, or tansy.
Turning left towards home, we made our way along the irregularly used line serving the aggregate ramp (
rampa na kruszywo). The fine afternoon drew many Sunday strollers out, everyone entirely casual about walking along an industrial railway line (
below). This view clearly shows the buffers at the far end of the track and the points for the ramp. An engine will pull the laden aggregate wagons towards the buffers, the points are switched, and the engine pushes the train backwards up the incline to the ramp.
After clambering down from the ramp, we're back in Jeziorki and making our way across the fields, I spot the Fal-Bruk road maintenance depot on ul. Karczunkowska with its large collection of roadsigns catching the late afternoon sun. I intended to get closer for a better shot, but by the time I got there, the sun's angle no longer caused such visually-interesting reflections.
Finally, just before turning into our estate, I caught a large tree full of roosting starlings on ul. Trombity, a jet flying overhead (
below). Today's walk totalled over 8km.
* "The hope that springs eternal/springs right up your behind" - Ian Dury, This Is What We Find
A glorious afternoon, bearing with it the hope that springs eternal*. Time for another long walk with Eddie. Three quarters of the way down ul. Trombity, we spotted a tree that was showing the very first signs of budding leaves.
I continued looking for the entire duration of our walk for other such trees, but clearly this was a first in the neighbourhood.
To the end of Trombity, over the tracks, across the fields to Dawidy Bankowe (above). "The Banking Davids". Why the village was called that I don't know; the main Dawidy is to the north, while Dawidy Poduchowne was the old name for the bit of Dawidy on the Jeziorki side of the railway line.
On to Zgorzała via Zamienie (we discovered a rutted mud track called ul. Wrobelka linking the two villages). In Zgorzała I stop to photograph this well-know local landmark, a hand-painted sign advertising a car mechanic's workshop, bearing the image of a Ford Escort. In the days of billboard ads printed in their thousands, it's good to see the work of individual sign painters surviving the ravages of time and human capriciousness. Long may it grace Zgorzała.
Next we trudged over fields, down more muddy tracks, past the new housing estate being built in Iwiczna. Crossing the railway line again, we passed behind Mysiadło, which is also quickly filling up with new houses (below). The fallow field in the foreground is filled with wrotycz, or tansy.
Turning left towards home, we made our way along the irregularly used line serving the aggregate ramp (rampa na kruszywo). The fine afternoon drew many Sunday strollers out, everyone entirely casual about walking along an industrial railway line (below). This view clearly shows the buffers at the far end of the track and the points for the ramp. An engine will pull the laden aggregate wagons towards the buffers, the points are switched, and the engine pushes the train backwards up the incline to the ramp.
After clambering down from the ramp, we're back in Jeziorki and making our way across the fields, I spot the Fal-Bruk road maintenance depot on ul. Karczunkowska with its large collection of roadsigns catching the late afternoon sun. I intended to get closer for a better shot, but by the time I got there, the sun's angle no longer caused such visually-interesting reflections.
Finally, just before turning into our estate, I caught a large tree full of roosting starlings on ul. Trombity, a jet flying overhead (below). Today's walk totalled over 8km.
* "The hope that springs eternal/springs right up your behind" - Ian Dury, This Is What We Find
Nice post. Very atmospheric. Love the car workshop sign - very Cuban!
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