Une promenade

Yesterday...

Sun hid himself as soon as i landed on the pavement, leaving me in the melancholic company of cloud subdued sky. But i wasn't about to fold. I turned my coat collar up, (er, wasn't a fashion statement, but i sure looked goooood :-P) slid my hands into my pockets and off i went.

I walked for an hour, zig-zagging through quaint main streets and pretty cottage neighborhoods. I was surprised to see maple trees that were still green, standing right beside trees that were basking in fall colors. I discovered many a trees whose names i knew not, trees with unusual leaves and funny branches; odd-looking tiny cottages built at the turn of last last century, many cute cats, but only a handful of humans.

At times it was quite solitary. Nothing but the sound of my boots against the concrete of the street, with every intruding step the desolate streets falling even quieter, autumn leaves being crunched underneath providing relief from time to time.

I felt sequestered in that boundlessness. I know it sounds almost paradoxical. But that's how it felt.