Tag: #KindaSquare

Cruel to be kind

When Henry was still little and had just moved in with us we couldn’t let him go outside. He sat at the verandah window for hours and kept telling us that he really, really, really wanted to be in the garden.

When I coudn’t take his staring and moaning and begging anymore I decided to buy a harness. Henry wasn’t impressed. Although I bought the smallest size it took him only a couple of minutes to wriggle out of it.

So we kept him inside until he was mature enough (ha!) to be trusted to go outside. We really did it out of kindness but boy! did he accuse us of being cruel.

Square 30 for the KindaSquare Challenge in October.

Three of a kind – or is it 4?

The light was queer and I just clicked quickly to snap the three herons flying past. Since most of the storks (but not all) have left, there are more herons in the field. Yesterday I counted five. Anyway, only on the computer screen did I see the spec on the upper left side and realised there was another kind of flyer in the air.

Square 28 for the KindaSquare Challenge in October.

Kind of incongruous

In the back is a freight train, 20th century technology transporting 21st century goods. And in the foreground are the remains of a villa rustica, a farming estate from almost 2000 years ago when the Romans were settling in the area.

The villa was only discovered in the 1980s although it is a built up area. I was very impressed with the layout and the swimming pool as well as the underfloor heating.

Square 24 for the KindaSquare Challenge in October.