The past week has seen settled weather over Poland, hot days with maximum temperatures over 30C, just a few wispy clouds – exactly the kind of weather you'd want to enjoy on a summer holiday. Evening after evening of gorgeous sunsets, the red sun descending cleanly over the horizon. Summer weather, to be enjoyed (even though it was too hot for a walk before the evening cooled the air outside). The leaves are just starting to turn yellow from green; it still feels a long, long time before leaves fall.
All this will come to an end overnight, as rain sweeps in from the west. Rain is expected for five of the next seven days (which farmers will welcome as August and early September have been unseasonably dry). An end to the spell of sunset walks.
Below: the new way (described in this post from last week), and on it, a roe deer (Capreolus capreolus, sarna europejska). It darted off to the right, and then a second deer emerged from the left to follow the first one. Two mistakes, the first forgivable (I didn't have time to swap my 18-55mm for my 70-300mm telephoto zoom), the second less so – I looked down the check I'd captured the image below rather than staying alert to see what happens next, and so I missed the second deer. So wonderful to share an ecosystem with these shy and elusive creatures. Hunting them for sport is for the psychopathic.
Below: fields and forest, between Chynów and Krężel. I recognise this view, though not from this life.
Ulica Zatorze gets civilised
S2/S7 junction, Hołubcowa viaduct, under construction
This time 13 years ago:
To Stara Praga, and back
This time 14 years ago:
Late summer scenes, Warsaw
This time 17 years ago:
Roadworks and detours on ul. Puławska in Mysiadło
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