It is quite funny, this summer I was walking from my mountain cabin to the valley for my grocery shopping. On the path I was thinking too much, not enjoying the nice sunshine. So, I decided to 'drop everything i know, pretend I do not know anything!', then 'see what happens.' Well, I 'did', and it was nice, I felt like trying to eat some bark of a tree, which was not very edible.. but nonethless I found that out myself. The next was I walked and saw a spot with a view over the valley, that I never saw before. So I took off from my familiar road, and went out there, it felt so nice to just do some break from the routine.
Then, I looked down on the ground, and what do I see, but a plethora of strawberries, all around me dozens and dozens of wild strawberries. I got excited and started to enjoy them, got down on my haunches to eat , feeling the warm sun and hearing a whisper like the wind through the trees.
It felt so wonderful, tasting fresh strawberries from the wild! Then I wondered, whether the villagers from the valley underneath me could possibly know about this spot? Well, I started to ponder that... when suddenly the whisper of the wind got strong, and louder, and the hiss behind me made me turn, to see. A bitersnake ! Shocked and scared, I jumped up, and ran down the track faster than in years, haha.
I have never been so close to a snakebite in my life, when I turrned to look, the first thing I saw, was it's head being pulled back slowly for a stronger attack... just seconds later.
Well, that was that story, it was scary when it happened, but for sure something I told about in the village cafe when I arrived..brr
On Jan 30, 2013 G. wrote:
It is quite funny, this summer I was walking from my mountain cabin to the valley for my grocery shopping. On the path I was thinking too much, not enjoying the nice sunshine. So, I decided to 'drop everything i know, pretend I do not know anything!', then 'see what happens.' Well, I 'did', and it was nice, I felt like trying to eat some bark of a tree, which was not very edible.. but nonethless I found that out myself. The next was I walked and saw a spot with a view over the valley, that I never saw before. So I took off from my familiar road, and went out there, it felt so nice to just do some break from the routine.
Then, I looked down on the ground, and what do I see, but a plethora of strawberries, all around me
dozens and dozens of wild strawberries. I got excited and started to enjoy them, got down on my haunches to eat
, feeling the warm sun and hearing a whisper like the wind through the trees.
It felt so wonderful, tasting fresh strawberries from the wild! Then I wondered, whether the villagers from the valley underneath
me could possibly know about this spot? Well, I started to ponder that... when suddenly the whisper of the wind
got strong, and louder, and the hiss behind me made me turn, to see.
A bitersnake ! Shocked and scared, I jumped up, and ran down the track faster than in years, haha.
I have never been so close to a snakebite in my life, when I turrned to look, the first thing I saw, was it's
head being pulled back slowly for a stronger attack... just seconds later.
Well, that was that story, it was scary when it happened, but for sure something I told about in the village cafe when I arrived..brr