End of day

[topum]

The village is in the middle of having dinner. If you go up the hill, you can hear loud voices and laughter from people's gardens from all directions. Dinners are noisy here. People come from the fields and are catching up. Towards the end women often start singing. In the evening it is always those quiet songs full of sorrow that everything here, joy, love, life is only temporary.

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[real-marsel.livejournal.com]

I adore to read your texts.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I hate writing though.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

A lovely sunset. 

Looks so peaceful there. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is very peaceful in the evenings here. The village is buzzing during the day though.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

It looks like your project in Moldova consists in making beatiful photos. Well, I admit, the project is developing successfully...

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thank you but luckily it isn't about photos at all, that would be pretty boring to me.
I really enjoy how our phone cameras became so good that unless you are a professional you hardly need a camera anymore.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Yes. But this and the previous one are particularly beatutiful. I copied them to my comp (was that piracy?)

[topum.livejournal.com]

That one was also taken with my phone.
Ha ha, my photos are free to use for everyone.

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

It was a courtesy question. I would copy anyways. I am an old pirate with a wooden leg and an eye patch...

[found-world.livejournal.com]

What a pretty photo and a nice atmosphere. Except I don't like the part about singing a bunch of sad songs. I like songs I can relate to, though, so maybe singing about sad things is a way of getting people to express empathy in these situations, which can be a good thing.

[topum.livejournal.com]

The songs are not really sad. They have a special world for it here in Romanian, which is "dor". I understand that it is something like a mixture of longing, nostalgia and melancholy not very different from Portuguese "saudade" I think. So they call these songs "cantec de dor" here, which is "song of dor".

[howlin-wolf-66.livejournal.com]

Must be nice when the air carries the sound over that beautiful landscape. :-)

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes, one of my favourite times of the day here.

[dreamsugar.livejournal.com]

Beautiful photo. It's given me some inspiration for the fantasy novel I intend to write this fall. Thanks for sharing.

[topum.livejournal.com]

You are most welcome. And good luck with the novel.