In my neighbourhood

From camera -- no editing

On a beautiful Spring morning

bleak adjective (of the weather) cold and miserable. "a bleak midwinter's day" 1. ಕರಾಳ 2. ನಿರ್ವರ್ಣ “If we only see things through the cold-eyed lens of factuality and don’t listen to the yearning and screaming of unexpressed feelings, life may remain bleak in a mire of clinical hollowness, sodden in apathy and indifference” ― Erik Pevernagie

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. ~ Jean Giraudoux HBM to all

Air -- crisp, clean, cool. No cars, no people and no virus

When the snow falls, nature listens ~ Antoinette van Klee

"The leaves fall patiently Nothing remembers or grieves The river takes to the sea The yellow drift of leaves." - Sara Teasdale

Grey trees, grey skies, and not a star; Grey mist, grey hush; And then frail, exquisite, afar, A hermit-thrush. ~ Angelina Grimke

In a 2012 poll by Reuters covering more than twenty countries, 15 percent of respondent predicted that the world would end in their lifetimes. A 2015 survey of Americans, British, and Australians found that a majority rated the risk of our way of life ending within the next one hundred years to 50 percent or greater, while a quarter believed humanity had a better than even chance of being wiped out altogether over that time frame. More Americans believe that life was better fifty years ago -- when a nuclear holocaust was an everyday possibility -- than it is today. In 2018, a UN scientific penal reported that the world had just twelve years to sharply reduce carbon emission or risk a global catastrophe. Meanwhile, the tone of the news in the era of President Donald Trump has become nothing short of apocalyptic on both sides of the political divide. ., . . . If we fear end times, part of us seems to crave them -- and perhaps believe we deserve them. ~ Page 3 (Excerpt: “End Times” - Author : Bryan Walsh