Sunday, August 06, 2017

Loss of friend.

It happened last night!  Because of high wind and probably disease, one of our many, many friends unexpectedly died last night and took a younger one with it. Yes, it may seem strange to call it friend but a tree is that to me. After living for some years in a forest, I have grown to love trees. This older one may have had some disease at it's base and was not strong enough this time to resist the wind. Unfortunately. a younger tree, in the path of the older one as it fell, was also destroyed.

To get over our sadness on this beautiful day we went to the rynek, had caf茅 mrzona's and talked with Eugeniusz, our waiter, for a while. His email address has an extension of ru.com so I was inquisitive about it. He told us he was from Belarus and of Russian descent. He said although the Russian and Polish languages were certainly different, he could understand almost everything said in Polish. A few weeks ago he was surprised when he met a girl on the tram from the village in Belarus where he comes from.

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