...two geese, standing and looking at the party, are equally immobile...
...many car horns or hooters sound together in the distance... now they have stopped...
...i've no idea what to do next...
...i meandered into a semi-private looking garden with a sign depicting a dog in a red circle (with no diagonal line)... does it indicate that dogs are not permitted here or does it warn against dangerous ones... i assume the second, and retreat...
...on a new seat in a different park... two young men and two young women with a large dog on a lead walk by me... one of the men jumps up onto a fallen tree trunk and then leaps off it... he repeats this for the other man to video... twice...
...i suppose it would be unthinkable for those women to do the jumping, and to be in charge of the camera, and for those men to follow the women, passively...
...i realise that much of what i write here is (mild) criticism of life... but perhaps life does not need it...
...as i get up i see that the seat is inscribed as follows
w think,
w know
but girl
w don't
have no idea,..
...as i pass a building, an example of quite good architecture, modestly but carefully formed, i realise how much one needs such things at moments like this... moments of unease...
...wondering why a man at the traffic light is looking upwards, i look up too and see four hot air balloons, the first in the shape of a partly-sliced orange... later i see seven, all moving slowly and rising... i estimate that they are at 2 to 3 thousand feet, or 700 to 1000 metres... too far away to discern faces but i can see the flame of a burner... i remember that the first human flight was by lighter-than-air craft (by the Montgolfier brothers in the eighteenth century, perhaps earlier?) and how difficult it still is to imagine that solid-looking objects can float in air, as fish float in water, almost motionless.... see wikipedia re hot-air balloon
...i'm surprised that balloons are permitted over a city, and so close to an airport, but i much like their slow silent motion in the sky...
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