It doesn't seem like yesterday, does it?

It's hard to believe these three pictures above were taken less than a month ago. It's funny how summer meticulously became autumn in september, and how soon the green leaves will turn brown or golden to later fall. Summer is like youth, for more cliche it might sound. One really has to enjoy it as much as possible, day after day, after all, it doesn't last forever, and once is gone, it's really gone. Until the next year, of course, unlike one's life in that Pink Floyd song. There's always hope, so there's no reason to look grumpy or depressed like people I see in the train every morning, only because today we woke up and there was not a single spot of blue in the sky (and not yet now). It's indeed very cloudy, but at least it's not windy. And yes, I did have to turn the radiator earlier than usual today. It's not even 6pm. Let's not allow this temporary darkness to affect our mood, shall we? It's not even real winter yet, so technically there's plenty of light outside. There are far more important things to be depressed or pessimistic about in our world, take the war, for example. If you're sick of the news, stick to the movies. Redacted, Lions for Lambs and there's more to come. Horror, however, it's pretty much the same as it was yesterday, as films like La Reine Margot attest. Why concentrating in the negative, then, only because of a gray sky? Think and do positive things. For me, that's a cosy home. Lighting candles and seeing a good film in the sofa while drinking warm tea or hot chocolate. And then the smell of fresh bread coming from the kitchen, baked by my sweet husband. Knitted wear. Some people are even happier with less, like "the girl" in Once, who beautifully played a piano that didn't belong to her, while she wasn't selling flowers in the street.