Take A Walk, Part 5


Well, Trump's second impeachment seems to be over, but the pandemic shows no signs of ending sometime soon. Maybe the Bulgarian government has plans to distribute the vaccine to everyone, but when will this actually start to happen? In the meantime, we are lucky to be able to stay in our country house and keep safe. In these days of the Coronavirus, the most exciting thing that we do is to take the dog for a walk. 

The good news is that Tina is a naughty little doggie and she always enjoys herself. It makes Irena and me happy to see our little dog having a good time.
The countryside around Daveri, although bleak and bare in winter, still has a wonderful, wild beauty that makes me think of that rather weird and emotional Gerald Manley Hopkins poem:

What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.



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  1. Anonymous21 February 2021 at 06:53

    Vaccine should be 'walk in' now. I had mine today. No problems

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