Women Give Me Soap
My b&b is a quiet wood place amid a mass of flowering apple trees:
My room is big enough to get a cow in but not turn it around. I ask the landlady about the soap.
“No soap. Guests bring own soap.”
I worry about what kind of guests she usually has:
“Do all your guests carry around soap?”
She sniffs the air slightly:
“Of course.”
Somewhere, I own at least 8 gray suits and 16 crisp white cotton shirts. But the woman looks at me doubtfully and gives me soap.
Nearby gardens, unkempt in the style of Monet, rife with tulips:
I head out for lunch along worn but neat roads. Working men pass me quietly on old bicycles:
I stop under a tree for a lunch of bread and cheese, and an apple. I am joined by frogs, cruising waterbirds and a cool breeze:
I walk till evening. Tall thick forest everywhere I look; 21:00 and still light.
A clear, bird-chorused evening: cool, green and wet. 22:00, and a long sunset barely makes it through the trees:
Twilight. Cuckoos call among the dark pines. A transparent Estonian moon offers evensong.
(events 19 May 2013)
Alien Heartbeat 
9 Responses to “Women Give Me Soap”
Beautiful. So serene. I love the unkempt garden. It’s picturesque with the tulips, you say?
Yes. There were so many like that I had to stop taking pictures of them. I liked this one as well, but it was much more orderly than the one I decided to insert:
Wow! A secret garden you just gave me 😉
The forest – gorgeous. I take it there wasn’t a cute toiletry bag with floss, q-tips, toothpaste and a tiny toothbrush either..
The forest – I guess you mean the 2nd last picture. Almost didn’t use that one. Can you believe I took that at 22:25:55, ie almost 11pm! But I had to use ISO 400 and 1/6″, hand held, so it is a bit dark and vague. I prefer pictures much crisper and clearer.
Worth living without soap for these views;) Marvelous images.
in fact, I am no stranger to soap. I just don’t usually carry it around with me 😉
woow, amazing places, they are too good to be on the Earth)))
Wonderful places!