i should have no worry in the world

i get out of my building at i see this right at the entrance:

this is what life is like right now. almost bursting out, on a shadowy grey background.

it's the...fifth (?) consecutive day without rain and, as usual, sunny weather seems like it's been here forever. i've barely started wearing my red spring shoes this week, and they collect dust like nobody's business. they do love the streets of cluj.

everywhere you look, there's something like this:

or this:

i wish i could photograph the smell for you, but i hope you know it: the honey smell of spring flowers on the breeze, mixed in with a healthy dose of exhaust.

this weather makes me jumpy, keeps me wired...and vaguely irritable. i'm close to the end of a project and want to push it to the end and at the same time forget about it forever....i'm...having to do some paperwork that i hate and am delaying just out of caution...i'm...not really looking forward to a train trip i have to take soon.

i just want to take long walks in the sun and wear pretty ,colorful dresses.

i walked downtown from marasti, a neighbourhood i normally hate, just to take a pic of this graffitti, which might be my favourite in cluj. (the picture didn't really turn out well, but hey, it's a first step!):

"it's better to get lost in the forest than [to get lost] without a forest"

and the green of new grass is so mesmerizing:

and this poor bush finally has its days of glory. sort of:

and i took this pic for the general streetview, but look, there's a young tree growing on that roof!

aaand...short sleeves!! this was the first i saw, but there were many others around.

last evening i kept feeling i was missing something. frustration without clear cause. i thought a good remedy for it would be to take a short walk in my neighbourhood, before dark. (it was about 8.15 pm and not dark yet! how marvelous!)

yeah, i live in the middle of nowhere, as this photo testifies:

or rather at the edge of nowhere, because my balcony faces downtown and, although pretty isolated (bad 32 buses! bad!), i feel like i do live in the city. but immediately behind my building there's a sudden crisscross of country roads and...places completely foreign to me til now. yes i've had this place for 10 years now and i know i've been gone for half of it and that the city is expanding , but...but...still!

i had heard there was a monastery somewhere around. it's a 10 minute walk from my place:

i'd had no idea it was this big:

and then i climbed on, with the uncanny feeling of the tresspasser

and continued to take pictures of private properties just for the fun of it

they are blurry because i was afraid some bodyguards would come out of nowhere to kick me and step on my camera. or because i can't focus the camera properly.

wow. so it's like this now...

8.55 pm