Snow

Tonight and in the early morning it was snowing. It is a very dry and thin snow. But it gives quite a lot of snow... After a while looking out of my window I saw this fresh snow already covered by a dark-grey layer of everything what's in the air, coming out the chimneys, obviously.

Not much movement in between these houses except dirty snow, a cat coming out a basement (see the traces!) and playing in the snow (couldn't catch him/her with the camera) and people coming out with their dogs for some exercise and other necessary operations.

It's freezing!

Some Poles have a nice sense for understatement; they say it's chilly... Minus 17 degree Celsius today! Chilly?

The one who made this sign seems more realistic to me.

Agnieczka said: Normally it's never that cold here. This winter is like they have in Russia. But now we have it also here!

And there is more to come.... On the radio they speak about minus 26 and even minus 30... for the weekend.

Yes, it's  freezing!

Searching for colour

Searching for some colour is finally not that difficult in Polish society. To start with I have to focus on what is visible outside in my direct surroundings. It's like looking in the scale with developer in the photographers darkroom when colour comes up. You see red fruit with an adorable sweet taste and start thinking about summer time's warm and sunny days. Dreaming about being happy in green fields or in a flowering garden. Wodka can do the job, or imagination.

Both pictures are taken in the entrance from the place where I stay in Lodz, on Gdanska .

Everything grey!

first impressions from Poland; from the train