Deceitful autumn
9 Nov
Autumn could easily have been my favourite period of the year if it wasn’t for the rainy days and horribly cold weather. Basically, autumn could have been my favourite time of the year if all days were like this one: 18 degrees Celsius outside, happily sunny and lots of colourful leaves everywhere. And because we don’t get such beautiful days in November, we seized the day and had a small photowalk around strada Polona. oompa is always the first to say yes to such outings, Martha was happy to discover a new part of Bucharest (later she confessed she had already been on most of the streets in that area 
) and Eddie just likes taking his new camera out for walks.
Unfortunately, every up has a down and I still curse the minute we stopped to talk to The Crazy Lady (TCL). She was walking her dog and she found it suspicious that 5 people (we were actually 4, but we couldn’t make her say the right number) were walking on her street and taking pictures. She also said she was ‘an artist herself’ and that she observed what we took pictures of and we photographed only ugly things (Eddie took a picture of the building across the street and Martha was using her macro lens to take a picture of a fungus on a tree). And that we must be working for some organisation that sent us on the street to take ugly pictures of Romania and then disgrace our country by posting them. Oh, my head hurts only when remembering that episode! No matter how hard we tried to explain that we’re just walking around, trying to know Bucharest better and taking pictures of what WE thought was interesting she just went on and on and on about us trying to make the country look bad with the ugly pictures we took. And she implied that we shouldn’t have the liberties we have and we shouldn’t be allowed to express our opinions. Anyways, I don’t want to talk about this stupid encounter anymore, I just want to tell her that she’s a crazy bitch and she should go and fuck herself.
Having so much free time on my hands makes me seriously think about starting a 365-picture project, the one where you take one picture/day every day for one year. It’s not that ‘wow, I take so great pics’, but if I am able to hold on to such a project and finish it, then I’m able to do anything 
Laziness and the wild mood swings are going to be the death of me if I don’t do something about them. Of course, I have until the 1st of January to decide and I’ll change my mind thousand of times till then, but it’s a idea worth taking into consideration.
You must understand that old lady, obviously she’s from a time in your country when suspicious was an everyday affair….
About taking on the 365 pics project, I thought about it so many time myself, but I know there will be days when I won’t have time, at home, to post so….
wow, i would have told her that it’s people like her that are making the country look bad. i’m not just saying this, i really would have done it, because i’m used to eating this kind of people for breakfast. just make my day, you know?
@ Gracie: My dear Gracie, TCL said she lives 4-5 months/year in Germany and that in Germany you are not allowed just to walk down a street at take pictures. And that the police locks you up if you ask them why you aren’t allowed to take pictures
It’s not the communism, it’s her crazy head! 
@ morbo: hmmm, good one
Hope I don’t have to remember it for a next time 