23 march 2005 as still as a picture
17:27 The stillness and temperature of an early summer afternoon though the vegetation of spring is only just appearing... willow catkins in bloom, elders in leaf, may in blossom, but the other trees are still wearing the darker colours of treetrunks and mosses and branches... and i feel as confused as seems the climate, not knowing how to proceed despite many half-started writings in various parts of softopia while i reluctantly try to respond to the impending sale of the flat where i live within reach of both city forest and inner city... (i wonder if i can maintain this residential balance?)...
...time to forget these concerns and to look outward (while ceasing even to write this for a few minutes)...
17:56 as i looked about i saw 4 ducks flying high ( i estimated 500 feet or 150 metres)... they flew in diamond formation and circled above the pond before me. They didn't descend but flew away to the west and later returned and repeated that manoeuvre...
...and now other birds seem to be gathering or reappearing from hiding as the daylight begins to dim and as walkers become fewer. A bird i didn't recognise flies within 3 metres of my head while emitting loud high pitched sounds... and now the scene becomes even more still and empty than it was when i arrived... Occasional runners and walkers go by and i continue to hear distant birds and traffic - but the scene is as still as a picture...
...i decide to move on...
...when i reached Parliament Hill the moon was nearly full, half-concealed by misty clouds that spread over most of the sky but there was clearer light at horizons to the northeast and northwest... people were gathering from several directions and sat looking at the city lights in the greyness and in the easterly wind... someone was flying a large 'inflated wing' kite on the plain below and it flew at our height, lazily or floppily, occasionally collapsing and falling slowly and emptily to the ground but rising again full of air and in the shape of a wing or a parachute...
...i heard no one speaking.
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