Never Alone - Walking Partners

It's time for another walk, in fact, to share with you how the walk was. My habit is to present the most recent walk but it is not always possible.

A very bad flu, the worst I've had so far as I remember, kept me indoors for almost a week. This makes me search through the old walks I remember with the help of my personal photo archive. The habit of photographing what I find interesting on each walk now helps me to have what to show. It's not the most recent walk but it's not more than a month old.

It may seem unbelievable but it was, this autumn was miraculously beautiful and in some images, it seems hard to believe it was late October. That's if you look at how the people I met during the walk are dressed, otherwise, the trees with their extremely colored leaves prove that it's autumn.

Yes, it's extremely beautiful autumn with clear, warm days. Some trees have these yellow leaves that look like a ray of sunshine landing in our park.

I usually walk with my wife at least once a week through this park, considered the most beautiful in the city. That's why most of the walks I show here are spent in this park, the places are the same but happenings never the same, fortunately!

I usually show more of the scenery in my park photos but this time I'd like to show some of my fellow walkers, the people I met.

Most of them are those who are used to running in the park. Unfortunately, the pathways that are on the edge of the lake are narrow and are not the best places to meet walkers, joggers, cyclists, others on electric scooters, and so on.

The most dangerous are the cyclists who ride at high speed, they are silent, you don't hear them and it's hard to get out of their way. Their presence disturbs most walkers but there are cyclists you can't mind, like this one who is now getting some rest.

As I said, if you look at the young people running around the park it's hard to believe it's late autumn... This year I was astonished to learn that in the southern part of Romania, i.e. from the Danube River (which forms the border with Bulgaria) to the Carpathian Mountains, the climate has become the Mediterranean! It is incredible to be able to see such a climatic change in one's lifetime. I learned at school, and this is a little after the middle of the last century, that Romania has a temperate-continental climate, with hot summers and long, hard winters. Now the winters are shorter and shorter and without strength, we can say that we don't have more than one month of winter.

I am an admirer of the Mediterranean area, it was the cradle of European civilization... Italy, Greece. But the Mediterranean climate is hard to bear in summer when there is extreme heat, that's why there are so many forest fires in Spain, France, Italy, Greece. Unfortunately, this will happen in the southern part of my country, Romania. Moreover, some regions will be desertified, this started a long time ago. I won't live to see these things but we always think about the children, the grandchildren.

This is one of the topics I discuss with my wife during the walk. We talk about the many problems that arise in our lives but that doesn't stop us from observing how people relax in the park. Some are fishing.

Others can't break away from the phone here, in this urban nature. In fact, the vast majority can't live without smartphones.

In this park, there are many terraces that make the most of this warm, mild, and long autumn. When we walk around, in the mornings, they have no customers but in the afternoons and evenings, they are full.

Finally, I have to show once again the only island in my city, Bucharest. Every walk through the park brings me close to admire it. Of course, it is an artificial island but the idea of an island enchants me.

The flu doesn't give me peace, my condition is bad but using these photos I realized how beautiful nature and life is and that we should enjoy every moment to the fullest, especially the good ones.

Always when winter approaches I am already dreaming of next summer, I realize that I am being optimistic without it being characteristic of me.

I'll say it again and again, I've found that my main activity lately is... walking. Like all of you, I love to walk, but only now I have realized that walking has become my main mode of relaxation. Slowly, slowly overtaking the other pleasures I still have.

For #WednesdayWalk by @tattoodjay