It's amazing to think how the seasons change depending on where you are, and there are even countries where there are no seasons at all.
I recently read two publications and looked at their photographs about autumn and they reminded me of another time in my life, one where when I walked or strolled through the streets in that season I could see a blanket of brown and yellow and I could feel the crunching of the leaves under my feet as I walked, I love that sound.
Here autumn has settled in, after a few days of light rains, but it is not the autumn I saw in those publications nor the one I experienced until my 40s. Not all the trees lose their leaves, in fact, few do and many change the shade of their leaves, but not to deep yellow. You can see various colours, but it is like a range between greens, yellows, predominantly green.
The leaves fall, yes, but they do not generate large or abundant blankets. In the early hours of the morning, the sun still shines through the branches, trunks and leaves of the trees, casting shadows on the paths, but after five o'clock in the afternoon it starts to go down and the walking areas, such as the forest parks, become cooler.
At this time of the year I like to do my walks after lunch or have lunch in nature, the latter is something I love, there is nothing better for me, I love picnics in the open air, it is a different energy than being enclosed.
So I stop for a moment on my walk, have something to eat and then continue exploring trails. I love forest parks like this one because, being 19 hectares in size, I always have a new trail to walk and places to discover. It's impossible to cover so much nature in one day.
As I walked along the different paths the sun went down more and more, creating places where there was full shade, only when I turned around a rocky area facing south, towards the sea, is where I could see the sun on the vegetation and those rocks giving it a yellow hue.
I love while I walk to look in all directions, but especially at the sky and see the tops of the trees up there, their shapes, the shadows they cast on each other and if there are clouds like on this walk to see them through them, like snowflakes in the sky.
Breathing the fresh air, which these days is colder, oxygenates the lungs, feeling how with each breath that air enters, refreshes the body, renews it.
You know that I love to explore paths outside the traditional ones, the marked ones, and sometimes I find rocks with shapes, or paths between trees and I love to walk them. At this time of year I am no longer in danger of snakes, or so I think. That's why I dare to explore more, even if it's colder in these darker areas.
After coming out of the trees I came across a beautiful path that showed me the sea and a cruise ship in the distance, and the light was so bright through the clouds that it seemed as if the cruise ship was a ghost.
I continued along this path where after a long stretch I could no longer see the sea, as I was entering the park again.
As expected, I walked through several places in zigzags, which is very typical here because the forest parks, which I find more and more of them on the map, are located high up in the mountains and the paths within them are made in this way.
One of them led me to an area with more light and to one of the many signs with instructions about the park. Near every exit there is one of them.
For the last stretch of the path I chose I could see the last rays of the sun on the place, until I decided to leave the park. I still have a long way to go.
The way out, which I didn't know, led me to see these beautiful constructions as I walked downhill and steeply inclined. They looked like castles in the middle of the neighbourhood, and I love that.
As I walked down the hill the sun was already setting and the views along the promenade were beautiful. You can already see the Christmas decorations. Soon the lights will be switched on and the city will be dressed in festive attire.
Thank you all very much for joining me on this Wednesday walk, I send you a big hello. See you soon.
Amonet.
All photographs are my own.
