As my fingers passed through the morning air, I found myself thinking of gloves for the first time since early May.
The end of summer? The weather forecast on TVP 1 when I got home was suggesting a return to 27C on Sunday, so no, not yet. As in the human ageing process - there are better days and worse days. Not a sudden switching off, but an inexorable though inconsistent decline into darkness, coldness and gloom. The wet has never really gone away, neither this year nor indeed last year.
Somehow that feeling that summer's over has not taken hold, the mono no aware and wabi-sabi moment has yet to occur (see this post from exactly two years ago for fuller insight into the significance of this particular time of year to me).
This time last year:
Tanks and guns and drones - Kielce arms fair
This time two years ago:
That post mentioned in the paragraph above
This time three years ago:
Recycling household waste
This time four years ago:
How many folk singers does it take to change a light bulb?
The end of summer? The weather forecast on TVP 1 when I got home was suggesting a return to 27C on Sunday, so no, not yet. As in the human ageing process - there are better days and worse days. Not a sudden switching off, but an inexorable though inconsistent decline into darkness, coldness and gloom. The wet has never really gone away, neither this year nor indeed last year.
Somehow that feeling that summer's over has not taken hold, the mono no aware and wabi-sabi moment has yet to occur (see this post from exactly two years ago for fuller insight into the significance of this particular time of year to me).
This time last year:
Tanks and guns and drones - Kielce arms fair
This time two years ago:
That post mentioned in the paragraph above
This time three years ago:
Recycling household waste
This time four years ago:
How many folk singers does it take to change a light bulb?
1 comment:
We had a similar experience here as well. 32 degrees (hot and sticky) on Saturday then a cold front swept in on \monday and we reached a high of only 14. I had to dig out some socks for the first time in four months.
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