Wednesday Walk - ON MY ORDINARY WALK TO THE GROCERY STORE

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There is about 1 kilometer ... give or take a few hundred meters ... from my house to the largest and most equipped supermarket in town ...

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... and is interesting ... even fascinating :D maybe ...

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... how many cool details I encounter along that way ...

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... on an almost daily basis.

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This gate looks a bit like a stylized butterfly resting on the stylized grass ... with gray wings and spiral antennae ... it's slightly hypnotic as well.

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I photographed this Wall lizard (Podarcis muralis) on some wall not far from there.

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The lizard was running back and forth along the wall, assuming this pose from time to time. This time he stopped underneath a piece of fence above the wall ... so on this shot, it looks a bit like the lizard has a microphone or something similar above his head.

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I saw a man working ...

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... dragging something through the window ...

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... into the church on the top of the hill ... the largest church in town.

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A bit further I found a line art representation of that church. It looked like a local patriotic version of an electrocardiogram graph ...

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... recorded on the company car of the local radio station.

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The car was parked on the little square in the center of the old town.

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People were waiting in line in front of the post office across the square ...

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... with the obligatory masks on the face... or somewhere at hand.

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There is a pastry shop here on the square ... the oldest one in town ... I don't know when exactly was opened, but this sweet place is here since I remember my existence ... so, from 77' ... 78' at least. While passing by, I heard an old friend calling me ... old in the sense that we know each other for long time ... and in the sense that his age is 93, although he looks considerably younger.

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It was a long talk, I mean he did the talking and remembering, and I was mostly listening ... it was an epic, meandering lesson in local and personal history ... with childhood details of World War 2, a political thriller segment in the first decades of the new communist state, his exile in France, surreally different urban life in Paris ... then the return, in the eighties ... and more ...

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The swallow was observing the scene from above ... high on the wire ...

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... and the lizard from an old wall around the terrace.

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At one point the bird flew away ...

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... and I continued my epic journey to the grocery store.

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I was surrounded by gardens and houses ...

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... with interesting plants and arrangements.

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Here you can see an old wagon wheel buried in the juicy growth of Delosperma cooperi plant.

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These succulents grew unusually high ...

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... in the isolated little garden above the surrounding shrubs and trees.

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Here is a new advert ...

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... on the old house not far from the main square.

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I passed by some abandoned house ...

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... invaded by various self seeding plants ...

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... and took a few shots along the way.

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This is the view from the upper terrace of that house.

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I continued straight to the supermarket ... but then ...

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... I decided to take the long way, so I turned to the sea.

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The seagulls on the rooftop ...

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... looked like they are not so sure about this decision.

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There was a house in construction along the way ...

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... and a small traditional boat was sailing through its empty white interior ... the scene was lovely and slightly surreal.

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I passed by the glittery advert for the place called GLAM ... which is a Beauty bar ... whatever that means ...

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... then ... some hundreds of meters further ...

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... I saw a lovely couple ... Jet - ski and a bird ... floating in the bay.

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I saw also this strange traffic sign ... that encourages female parents to hold their children by the hand ... exactly there from some reason ... and there is nothing special in this place ... no big traffic, no school ... just some Hotels and restaurants.

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Here I changed my direction again ...

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... and I was headed back to the old town.

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I took a few more shots in the narrow streets around the main square ...

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... and found more lizards ...

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... on the old walls.

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Here I was back at the "butterfly gate" you saw near the beginning of the post ... and I took a shot with different composition ... and overall atmosphere.

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I saw a lovely red beer can on some stairs not far from there.

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I saw a lovely Wasp spider ...

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... on the white facade of that house ...

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... and some more lizards ...

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... of course.

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At this point I seriously decided to stop this rambling and continue straight to the store ...

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... so, I passed by this monument ... to the partisans in WW2 ...

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... and here I did a short stop ...

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... to take a few shots ...

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... of this lovely small flower.

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When I finally reached the supermarket ... I didn't enter immediately ...

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... because I got distracted ...

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... by the colorful decorative vegetation scattered around the parking lot. This is some kind of hibiscus ...

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... and this is a short look at some flowers mounted on the streetlamp pole.

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The prickly pears grow in the desert like area covered with pebbles, between the parking lot and the main road that leads to the city ...

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... and wasps built their home on this prickly green island.

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I had a lot of fun here ...

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... and I felt very inspired by this cactus.

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I found another wasp nest ...

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... a slightly smaller one ...

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... and a snail ... near some artificial object.

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I found some cool patterns as well. There is a small red droplet in the lower right sector of the photograph.

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Here you can take a better look at that droplet ... and on the following shot ...

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... the droplet is very close to the eyes of the beholder.

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Here you can enjoy another generic portrait of the Prickly pear.

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The hemipteran insect on this photograph is the Corizus hyoscyami bug ...

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... and here - this post must end. I entered the store ... did my shopping ... I saw more cool stuff on my way back ... but that's another story ... THE END.

As always in these walks on HIVE, the photographs are my work.



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Absolutely! That old buddy of yours looks very young, I can't belive he is 93 now 😀.. May god bless his health.

The bird shot (about to take off) is amazing, very much loved it!

Many great shots that I enjoyed. Very hard to pick the favorite among them 😁

It's a pleasant walk with you @borjan :))

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This is a very nice walk to the store! The old town is very interesting to observe. You found so many different lizards along the way!

That boat is sailing inside a new house! The pink bird in the sea makes the whole thing so surreal!

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