...today the air is humid and hot (i guess about 85 percent and 25 C) and so i decide to do less walking and more sitting still and making notes...

...clear images of the trees on the other side of the pond are reflected from the water surface: they shimmer here and there where tiny water creatures break the surface and project circular wavelets... all else is still, but for occasional water drops falling from the surrounding trees... a single leaf which moved suddenly, for no apparent reason... and a few flying insects... earlier i passed a pond in which are growing about fifty white water-lilies (resembling lotuses), some already in flower...

...a young man walks by unusually slowly (as if in a semi-trance) and now there is a faint air movement that stirs the bullrushes, if that is what they are (the tallest are 3 or 4 metres high and have dark brown seed pods 20 to 30 cm long)...

18:00 now, feeling cooler and more energetic, i continue to walk...

...at the highest point, above the Vale of Health... the city beyond is invisible... ground level cloud, or a dense rainstorm, is concealing all buildings but for the rooftops of the village below... the south wind may bring the rain here in a few minutes... i walk towards the nearby bus route... the air in the bus is unpleasantly humid and i am lucky to find a vacant seat...

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