Railway musings south of Warsaw

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Friday, 31 August 2007

Last ride to work, summer 2007

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Once the school holidays began, I'd ride my bicycle to work whenever I could. On Monday the school run begins again, three weeks later w...
Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Greenhouse sunset

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The word 'greenhouse' today is associated with carbon dioxide and global warming, but down Jeziorki way it represents a dying way of...

Where have the trees gone?

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"Woke up this mornin', got those 'what's happened to that forest outside my bedroom window' blues". What once lo...
Tuesday, 28 August 2007

Don't the moon look lonesome, shinin' through the trees?

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Total familiarity. Walking home this evening along ul. Karczunkowska, I might as well have been in Ohio, Kentucky or Minnesota sometime in t...
Sunday, 26 August 2007

Heron over ul. Pozytywki

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I've seen it before, but it has always proved elusive. Today, while walking around the pond by ul. Pozytywki (lit. " Music-box Stre...
Saturday, 25 August 2007

Late August cultivation

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Where others use lawnmowers, here in Jeziorki we use tractors. Looking out east from our garden, I get a strong deja vu thing about 1950s A...
Friday, 24 August 2007

"...said the spider to the fly"

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Today I found this splendid specimen outside my bedroom window. Overnight it had caught a fly, which it was cocooning in silk prior to diges...
Tuesday, 21 August 2007

Another summer storm

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Woken up by one early this morning, recording another one late this evening. A powerful electrical storm made its way north skirting Warsaw...