Being a nature and plant loving person, I?ve always considered
autumn as a very sad season! Autumn brings cold and dreary;
the plants are dying?what could be more depressing? Yet, I?ve
learned to love this season too because it brings a change of
colors in the nature and the beauty of these amazing colors
cheers me up, being pleasant to the eyes!
I?m spending a long part of the day in the middle of nature because
I have a German shepherd dog named Boss, whom I walk in the park three
times a day. Our park, named "Alexandru Ioan Cuza",
placed in Titan district ? the biggest district in Bucharest ? has been
changing its face from one day to another, and in the past few years
was very well taken care of. Everyday I see how they are digging, mowing
the grass or planting new flowers, how they are pruning the trees or
trimming the bushes, it seems there?s always something to be done because
our park is so big!
During autumn they have many things to do like digging and trimming the
roses, or raking up the leaves which fall everyday and covers the alleys
like a rustling carpet! This fall (2006) I saw the park with different eyes,
like never before because of my new hobby : photography! Every little corner
has been immortalized, our park having so many beautiful places, which I
would like other people to see, to enjoy the wonderful views Romanian nature
has to offer!
As soon as you enter the park, it shows its entire splendor, with the round
fountain, lighted during the night, which is the main attraction for all
people walking around the park. Although it is autumn, the fountain still
sprinkles because the frost hasn?t come yet so it is no danger. The summer
plants, from the flowerbeds near the fountain and other places in the park,
have been changed with fall ones, Pansies and Mums, beautifully colored,
truly a delight!
Children are playing in their playgrounds with swings, slides,
sea saws and animals, so brightly colored. The trees are the only
ones which are still the same, as old as the park, shadowing the
alleys with their huge crowns. Autumn changes their colors and
undresses them of their green coat, laying a thick carpet of leaves
on the alleys, yellow from the lime trees and red from the oaks.
In autumn, the park changes its appearance every day. Every morning,
I?m astonished to see more colored leaves which weren?t there the day
before, much more leaves on the ground, on the alleys; even the sunrise
looks different, and it?s more mysterious in a fall morning. The pale
sun is shining lightly through the leafless trees, caressing us with its
warmth. The lime-trees guarded alleys, spotlighted by the sunbeams, seem to
come from a fairytale with fairies and knights in shining armor. I?m
walking on the yellow-golden carpet, delighted by the beauty of the view.
In some other part of the park, the big crowns of the oaks are
shining from rusty-yellow to fire-red. Colored leaves, fallen in the grass,
seem like a colorful, patchwork carpet, as if someone was playing with
watercolors through the trees. We can go down to the lake, in which pine
trees are reflected like colored spots on a mirror. Walking on the bridge
and looking down at the park, you see all its beauty; the view looks like
a Luchian painting. For me and Boss it?s time to go back home, the sun is
already up in the sky and I?m overwhelmed by so much beauty! It?s true, even
in fall, our park has many great views to offer!
Copyright Adina Dosan - 2006
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