god and bad thing about Salonika

I suppose that the most beautiful in Salonika is the sea during sunset. The water, lightened by the sun, has the colour of steel. Ships and birds against the background of sky looks like figures from a theater of shadows. I will never understand the solitude of homeless dogs in big Greek cities. They are neglected – it is obvious. They are not dangerous, when you live them alone – this is surprising. They are unbelievably sad which is hopeless and this makes me sad.

What a surprising being!

I was walking with my friend. From the opposite direction was coming a woman with a dog. The dog was very funny: unbelievably small, white with big eyes and ears. The owner leaded the dog with a red leash. My friend was delighted with the view. She said to me: “What a surprising being!”. Suddenly the dog stopped. His owner dropped the leash. The dog started to look at my friend with astonishment. I started to laugh and I told her: “you must be also strange being for that dog”.

Watra

This is Watra. She is very smart and faithful dog. Most of her time she spends sitting on a part of stairs in front of the house of her master. She looks then like a lion on sculptured lion.

Ajzik

I went for a walk with my dog. Suddenly he groaned and started to limp. I was worried by that. My dog is old and he had two operations on his knees some years ago. I was expecting many complications. I was even afraid that this time he could not survive from it. I took him to home, gave him some goodies, I hugged him. He was a bit surprised at my tenderness but accepted it with a joy and didn’t care about his leg. In the evening he recovered.

Dog in Caryńskie

For the first walking tour this year we chose the path to the students shelter in Caryńskie. It is only about an hour and a half of walk by forest road. In the shelter, we were resting under an apple tree and we were observing a local dog. It was a young, black German Shehard.
When the dog noticed us, he approached us and showed that, in his opinion, not to pet him would be a gaffe. We petted him immediately. After that, he brought a twig and started to bit it. A few times he barked at some imaginable animals for us and probably very real for him. His owner, who was repairing a dilapidated car, gave him some chances for running by throwing the twig. The dog was running after the twig, then he was looking for it and running back. He was very disappointed when the owner would stopped being in the game anymore. It was very hard for him but when he accepted it, he would start to bitting his twig again.
In the photo: a picture in the orthodox church in Łopienka.

bicycles

How strong are patterns build in our conscious up… Usually when I ask my dog to “sit” and “stay in the position” I show him my raised hand in “stop” sign. When I was walking on Cambridge’s streets I knocked one of thousand bicycle staying there. I caught it before it had felt down. I placed it again, leaned against a wall and finally put my hand in the position „stay” like for a dog. I even said “stay!”. My friend was joking : “Oh! It is obedient!”

a wind

Today in whole country is very strong wind which cause a lot of strange noises. It makes my dog terrified. He tries to hid himself everywhere it is possible. The best is bathroom. Equally good is wardrobe and space under my desk. From time to time he takes sitting position in the middle of a room and looks at me with a request in his eyes: “Do something with that please”. I expect that he will come to my bed at night. Usually he don’t do that, but there are exceptions like: thunderstorm, fireworks and strong wind. He should be happy that we doesn’t live on the coast. There is even worse. My friend is going to make a photo of a storm. Baltic sea must be beautiful today. In the photo: I and Baltic Sea some month ago.

walk with a dog

I spent holidays at home. This is a mature choice to stay at home if you have a dog which is afraid of a sound of fireworks. He feels better with his friends and in places he knows well. We were escaped from those sounds to the nearest meadows. This is a beautiful surroundings. Two artificial lakes, empty fields – with flowers in the spring or summer time and flat white sheets in winter. I knew haw it was there, but I was really surprised when I saw frozen lakes with anglers on it, fishing in theirs blowhole. I really don’t understand such kind of hobby but I must admit that they looked beautiful in this landscape. I saw also a wild deer running into a forest. It’s hardly difficult to believe that this place is so close to such a big city.
I didn’t have my camera with me during the walk so I publish a photo form Plovdiv. It is also connected with my holidays: during them I tried to get some control over a mess in my computer. I deleted many files and photos. Thanks to that I found many things which reminded me nice memories. In the photo you can see the view from hotels window. It was two years ago.
This is a mosaic, but I can treat it as a graffiti, can’t I?

Black dog

One day, when I was going to the Conference Center, I saw dogs playing on the beach. They were small and had long coat. One was black the other was white. They were running with unbelievable speed. Depending on where they were at the moment, the goal was to run out the water or get into it as quickly as possible.