More mid-August photos

Back to daily long walks. Third day back in action. Not to overdo it, of course (exercises still on hold), but the weather is clement (no heatwaves, but plenty of sun), so off I go. With my camera. All is good.

Below: deer from the rear. A young female roe deer eyeing me suspiciously... I realise that my rucksack, which had been doused with kitten urine, is giving off a confusing smell upwind. "It don't smell... human..." The standoff continued until a tractor drove past, breaking the spell, and scaring the deer off into the orchard to the left.

 

Left: the strawberries have been picked in June, a second crop has since been planted and is growing nicely. Can't yet make out what it will be... Radishes? The parallel rows of greenery converging on a red tractor caught my eye. Along the horizon, houses and street-lights of Grobice.

Below: an amazing photo demonstrating the sheer productive power of nature. This is one of a pair of willow trees by the farm track between Grobice and Grabina that had been pollarded (all top branches cut off) in the spring; underneath is a photograph of the same tree taken two and half months ago, on 3 May.

Incredible to consider just how much vegetation has propagated in a mere ten weeks!

Below: one of my favourite spots in the neighbourhood leading up to the fork in the road, left to Grabina, right to Adamów Rososki.

Below: the reverse view, looking back from the road from Grabina.

Below: the hunters' pulpit in Machcin II. (The is pronounced Machcin drugi as in 'Machcin the Second'.)

Left: back the same way I came. In my rucksack, loads of plums (both śliwki – plums – and węgierki – prune plums). There's an abandoned orchard in Grabina with biennial-bearing trees that are now full of fruit. Unsprayed with pesticides, untreated with fertiliser. I return with 14,000 paces on the clock.

Below: bonus shot, taken on Saturday, a Sichuan Airlines Airbus A330 freighter at Warsaw's Okęcie airport. The Chinese airline flies a regular freight service to Warsaw and then onto either Budapest or Brussels before flying back to its base at Chengdu Shuangliu.

Below: good news at W-wa Dawidy station – the new-style digital information panels are working! As are the new clocks! I am informed that my train home to Chynów (due 18:14) is running five minutes late; the clock is showing 18:19 and indeed behind me it is hoving into view. What a contrast with a time, just 16 years ago, when W-wa Dawidy didn't even have a single sign bearing the name of the station!

This time three years ago:
Climate atonement

This time four years ago:
First month with solar panels on the działka

This time five years ago:
Qualia meditations

This time 12 years ago:
Public and private land in Poland

This time 13 years ago:
Two Warsaw sunsets over water

This time 17 years ago:
Farewell to the old footbridge over Puławska

This time 18 years ago:
Let's ban cars with engines over 2.0 litres

This time 19 years ago:
Ul. Kórnicka gets paved over