The Final Dance of the Willow Butterflies

Posted by Unguided on July 17th, 2008 at 01:26 pm.
Category: Encounters

last dance of willow butterflies on the highway

Nature never stops amazing you. A minute in your life can be a lifetime of another creature. Just like last year, and the one before that, and who knows since when, the willow butterflies have flown along the Sakarya river, to the same bridge over the Istanbul-Ankara highway.

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Memory Train

Posted by Unguided on June 6th, 2008 at 01:05 pm.
Category: Ueberthoughts

photo of haydarpasa railway station taken from the sea

It leaves without a hassle from Haydarpasa everyday, destination: Adapazari; and so it is appropriately called: Adapazari Express. Filled with workers and students, but especially workers, it runs back and forth during the day. The regulars of early morning and late evening departures are easy to spot. Tired, seldom in the mood for chat, living in their own worlds, trying to get some rest and above all, accumulate strength to make it again another day, for tomorrow.

As soon as it clears Bostanci, it gains some momentum, as if it knows it has its real customers on board now, not those who sneak in to reach the suburbs of Istanbul faster. Electric powered, it runs as if it is tearing the air and the ground apart, regretting the laws of physics that restrain it. Arrogant and selfish, it is way different than its predecessors. I remember.

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