Among the Guns&Roses

Only after I came to Shipka I discovered that actually this word also means something. In Bulgarian шипка means wild rose! No wonder it is called like that, because there are many, MANY wild rose bushes growing on the mountains nearby the town.
 
But only after when I had been living in this town I was told what is the cause of those loud crushing and destructing alike sounds coming from far away almost every second day. As it turned out somewhere near Shipka there is gun and other weapon testing place!
  
So I can say that I was living not just among the wild roses, but somewhere between Guns&Roses!

From balcony

19.11.16

These photos were taken week ago. There are no leaves on the trees anymore. :(
 
 

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“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”  John Lennon

Gypsy summer

Now it's Gipsy summer or in other words Indian summer (unseasonably warm, dry weather in autumn).

Lonely shipka hip in
olds man's beard or 'Clematis aristata'

  

Living in Shipkas house

I was so lucky to have a chance to live in Hristos house and have a room with a most wonderful view above all the red roofs of other houses. Every day as I woke up I could do nothing else but stare in distance to the blue toned mountains in morning mist. I could see the Sredna Gora in front of me and Stara Planina on the sides, drowned city, tombs and in the night time the sparkling line of Kazanlak and other villages.
But falling asleep was a real struggle for me. I had to adapt with the loud noises of grasshopper-alike sounding birds, which started to tweet as soon as the sun went behind the Stara planina mountains on my right.