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Is it a sign that you're getting old & boring (really boring, since I very much doubt that I ever was anything else) when you're doing the hiking tours you hated when your parents dragged you on them on Sundays when you were a child and you'd much rather have stayed at home and read a book or in any case done something less athletic and pedagogic? It was nice though, sunny, warm afternoon, Vöslauerhütte and Hoher Lindkogel/Eisernes Tor, and the ruins of an old castle on my way back; and I really need to do this kind of thing more often because I'm really in embarrassingly bad shape. Also, note to self - maps. They tend to be kind of useful, even if it's only the Wienerwald and not the Alps. Would have saved me three quarters of an hour of following the wrong path (twice, even) and having to go back again (uphill).

Home again, tired & with aching feet, had dinner & a piece of Saturday's birthday cake, and then watched the new Merlin episode which I feel a bit meh about. Not that it isn't still awfully cute, but on the whole it seemed a bit repetitive; many scenes felt like I've seen them before. But - I guess - new season, first episode, possibly new viewers, needs to re-establish the premises & basic character traits; (hopefully) moving on now.

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Aaaand... more picture spam.





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I could get used to this. M. gave me Mon.-Thu. off, and I'm really enjoying it. Drove to Laxenburg this afternoon and took a long walk through the park. Lovely late summer/early autumn day, almost too warm in the sun at 3 pm and still pleasant at 7; very quiet on a Monday. Smell of dry pine needles on dusty ground and mown grass still wet. It felt incredibly peaceful, no iPod, no Russian anything, no hurry (and no right way to find or lose either); just sort of drifting, mentally and physically.

I wasn't sure at all whether to even take the camera along, mostly because I've had very little interest in photography over the last months; it all felt so repetitive and uninspired (also, that thing is heavy); but I'm glad I did. I chose black and white pretty much by default because colour makes for very bland results at this time of the year when everything is an almost uniform and slightly dusty late summer green with only a few yellow leaves here and there, but I'm really pleased with some of the results. Or this might be the glass of wine I'm having. *cough* In which case, apologies. ;)