before and after

it does me good to go to the village, even if this time i could only stay one day. (also, it was a holiday and nobody seems to understand that my non-working goes according to a more sinuous schedule than normal people's working does...so ssh i'm back in cluj. AND i didn't go to any of the jazz in the park festival :(. )

back to this post, which (again) will mostly be about what a jungle our yard manages to become over one month , so that a whole weekend needs to be spent just cutting/trimming the grass.

before...the roses are barely visible among the weeds

before...can you spot the iris? i know nobody can spot the ornamental bushes

after...seriously, no comment

(comment and tell me the name of this...i'm hopeless with berries)

a metaphor for this whole situation, i guess

 

and the restoration, by my mum, of the so-called flower garden

i looked for these yellow flowers (not the daisies, the others - sânziene) in the field, because today (june 23/24) is a holiday named after them. basically a solstice ritual...and, if you hadn't guessed before, girls are supposed to make wreaths of these flowers and throw them at the roof of their house - if the wreath stays/catches on the roof, the girl will marry during that year. obviously no flowers were made into a wreath in this household (our roof is pretty high and steep)

 and then, in the evening, after we'd watered all our plants, it started raining, a full summer storm, and didn't stop or even calm down a bit  for about two hours.