When Autumn comes to Warsaw, it is pretty obvious. It is the end of what is commonly called the cucumber season, a time of no news, empty cities and... well... cucumbers in all their glory. On the Saturday morning I led the running club for a nice light 8.5km jog and we saw how glorious the leaves were with the weather changing. One of our runners, Judith, took some great photographs and inspired me.
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| The kids. |
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| And their soon to be pickling juices. |
When the weather in October is a balmy 20C you just know you must get off the couch and out into the urban wilderness. We are extremely lucky to live near beautiful parks and areas. So let's stroll.
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| It's times like these I wish I had a pig.... |
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| Even though I see this place every week for WITC Functional Fitness, it normally is dusk and the colours are hidden. |
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| Zamek is a homonym in Polish. Here we have Zamek Ujazdowski - it is not a zip, but a castle. |
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| A weather presenter is having a baby. Let's hope the baby likes living in a world of plastic.... |
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| Colours on colours on colours. |
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| The view down from the zip, I mean castle. |
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| Ok, rather than talk about the amazing colours, the warmth of them, the beauty, the inspiration of it all. I'll just let you enjoy the vibrance of what I got to see around Zamek Ujazdowski. |
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| We struck out into the built up area after the park to buy a couple of things quickly and enjoy the sun in a different way. |
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| Klu! |
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| There is a great book about Warsaw mosaics and I am in love with them all. Sometimes ugly tiles multiplied can be beautiful, sometimes it is the patterns, sometimes it is just the workmanship. Either way it looks great. |
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| Corners of difference. |
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| Park Ujazdowski is always wonderful, but in autumn it is the best. Even if you have to dodge all the brides and grooms getting their photo sessions done, the girls making friends take photos for instagram or the grannies lounging on benches stretching their legs into the paths. |
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| The area east of the park is a beautiful neighbourhood where you can find old Finnish houses in danger of being removed and opened up to developers. This would destroy one of the greenest parts of the city centre and create huge volumes of traffic, pollution and eyesore to an area that is magical most of the year. |
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| When one's husband is too cheap and environmentally friendly to buy balloons, a leaf must suffice. |
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| Warsaw, what a place.... sometimes ;) |
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