Just like turning a switch
Oct. 28th, 2011 11:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraYesterday was sunny and warm. It was 26 during the day and the night started so warm I was overheating under mu comforter. It was like summer decided to go with a blast.
When I woke up today it was autumn. Just like that it was November outside. The air was chill, the sky was covered with clouds and the tress become more colourful overnight. The highest temperature during the day was 10C and then it started to drizzle. Or maybe it was just fog. Or something in between. It's supposed to rain for real tomorrow and then when the clouds will go away we are up for the first frost as the temperature can drop below 0 tomorrow night. This made me remember what time of year this is. Just before the 1st of November. I felt like I should be on cemetery. This weekend is for visiting graves. Is it weird that I miss that?
I always liked All Saints Day (and the weekend nearest to it). I like the cemeteries full of lights, blazing in the night even from afar. And so full of flowers. But what I really like, as I suppose with every holiday, is family time. Both walking together in cold November and lighting lights and the sitting with hot tea and cookies in warm rooms after. But I think I have a soft spot for it because it was one of few times of year we were allowed to play with fire as kids. We got sweets and balloons. And there were squirrels.
This need a little explanation. I saw cemeteries here in US and they are completely different then the ones in Poland. There are no walls. And they really look like a big lawns with small vertical stones coming out of the grass. Here, there is one that is just across the street from a pool of an apartment complex. I never was afraid of cemeteries but this kind of creeped me out. It's probably because water go into and dead humans are something I was taught to avoid.
In Poland cemeteries are completely different. They had to be fenced and the ones in the cities are behind walls. The graves stick above the ground and are mostly made of some type of stone. There are often flowers growing on or by the graves or even rose bushes. And on the old cemeteries there are a lot of old trees. This means a lot of cleaning up the leaves this time of year but it also means that they are like a park. With much less people then parks usually get except of course this time of the year.
This means there are a lot of animals living there. My family is buried in one of the old, big Warsaw cemeteries. We would take walnuts with us as we went there and feed the squirrels (the red, European ones with tufted ears I miss too). If you stayed still enough with a nut on your outstretched hand they would come and grab it from you.
Halloween just lacks any positive childhood connection for me to care about it. It's just something I saw on TV.
When I woke up today it was autumn. Just like that it was November outside. The air was chill, the sky was covered with clouds and the tress become more colourful overnight. The highest temperature during the day was 10C and then it started to drizzle. Or maybe it was just fog. Or something in between. It's supposed to rain for real tomorrow and then when the clouds will go away we are up for the first frost as the temperature can drop below 0 tomorrow night. This made me remember what time of year this is. Just before the 1st of November. I felt like I should be on cemetery. This weekend is for visiting graves. Is it weird that I miss that?
I always liked All Saints Day (and the weekend nearest to it). I like the cemeteries full of lights, blazing in the night even from afar. And so full of flowers. But what I really like, as I suppose with every holiday, is family time. Both walking together in cold November and lighting lights and the sitting with hot tea and cookies in warm rooms after. But I think I have a soft spot for it because it was one of few times of year we were allowed to play with fire as kids. We got sweets and balloons. And there were squirrels.
This need a little explanation. I saw cemeteries here in US and they are completely different then the ones in Poland. There are no walls. And they really look like a big lawns with small vertical stones coming out of the grass. Here, there is one that is just across the street from a pool of an apartment complex. I never was afraid of cemeteries but this kind of creeped me out. It's probably because water go into and dead humans are something I was taught to avoid.
In Poland cemeteries are completely different. They had to be fenced and the ones in the cities are behind walls. The graves stick above the ground and are mostly made of some type of stone. There are often flowers growing on or by the graves or even rose bushes. And on the old cemeteries there are a lot of old trees. This means a lot of cleaning up the leaves this time of year but it also means that they are like a park. With much less people then parks usually get except of course this time of the year.
This means there are a lot of animals living there. My family is buried in one of the old, big Warsaw cemeteries. We would take walnuts with us as we went there and feed the squirrels (the red, European ones with tufted ears I miss too). If you stayed still enough with a nut on your outstretched hand they would come and grab it from you.
Halloween just lacks any positive childhood connection for me to care about it. It's just something I saw on TV.
