A walk in the sun

Nice start to the day, but clouds are forming, wind in the south-east; time for an early walk. Well, by early I mean setting off at soon after ten. Something tells me the walk will be a long one.

Below: house nestling in the forest, Grobice. Nice light, and I'm using a new pair of circular polarising filters on my standard zoom and long zoom lens.

Below: ulica Graniczna ('border street'), this being the border between the Grójec poviat on this side of the road and the Piaseczno poviat on the other. The road ahead leads to a tiny settlement called Zalesie, a dozen houses or so.

Below: crossroads. Left for Grobice, straight for Kozłów, left for Staniszewice, and behind me for Grabina and Adamów Rososki. Up ahead, asphalt has been laid on the road into Kozłów, though it does not continue through the entire settlement, fizzling out into a dirt track which disappears into the forest that lies beyond. Several new houses are being built in and around Kozłów.

Below: "Kozłów is literally a dump," I am thinking. On seeing this scene, I get a flashback; I'm getting a flashback to a flashback, in fact two flashbacks to a flashback. One was in South Wales, 1960, the other in the woods behind Ruislip Lido in the early 1960s. In both cases, there was a momentary flash of recognition of another time, another place, which felt like America. I felt it here today too. And again now as I look at it. The road? The sky? The vegetation? The wires in the sky? All clicks.

Below: wayside cross, Kozłów. Note the dates; 1917 and 2017. A reference to the apparitions in Fatima – or something more local?

Below: homeward bound, familiar paths. This is ul. Sosnowa ('pine street'), which leads back to Grobice. It may not look like much of a street, but it is one. In Grobice, I buy a bottle of Muszynianka mineral water. Half an hour later, I'm home, having walked 16,000 paces.

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