It is curious how nature can change. This summer is something completely different than what I experienced last year: it is often grey, windy, rainy, rather cold but temperatures actually go up and down quite drastically… I don’t really recognize the environment: the same seasonal plants that were so happy last year have trouble growing and flowering on the pots, the sky is not wearing this constant intense blue color, and the mountain has not this characteristic odor of warm pine tree smell. It is hard to think that we are almost in the middle of the summer, and that we all feel rather tired than energized. Fortunately the water of the lake is warm and we can swim regularly. As I am trying to continue workout as much as I can, swimming is the best rehab workout I can do, because I need to be twice careful with the slippery rocks in the mountains and the change of the weather. Our early swimming sessions had to be cancelled twice for thunderstorm, although we managed to get a moonlight party last week!
Nevertheless, the rain has some good point too. Plants and trees needed water after a very dry spring, wells are filling up with fresh water, and some animals and plants shine: frogs sing and colorful mushrooms are suddenly everywhere! – I am not quite sure what are those, and I won’t bother making an omelette, it seems that most of them are poisonous!!
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