2015-07-19

Northern Lithuanian skies, there is something about them

The north of Lithuania, district of Biržai, has greeted us with amazingly looking clouds and skies. After tenting our tent at the edge of the rye field, we dove into discussion about actualities and nuances of online writers society. Funny stories were replaced by stargazing at the clear sky without any light pollution. As we had enough of black and white sky-scapes, the evening itself didn't end up then. A last minute idea to visit the longest pedestrian bridge(500m!) in Lithuania and Astravas manor turned into reality. They are interesting objects by itself, but if you do sightseeing at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning - you'll see things in totally different shade.

a local shop

It's the same shop at night
 It was a little bit chill to walk over the bridge and take photographs, but our patience has rewarded us with some nice pictures. As we decided to head back to our tents, we met local fishermen going to their favorite fishing spots. All this time it never got totally dark, you could always see an edge of the sky, colored by sun.
But a late night walk didn't give us an excuse to sleep longer, so, we were up at 10 am. And we went for the same excursion, but this time in was in totally different light and we had a local guide.
At noon, more people came to this fantasy writers gathering, the food for the evening has been taken care of, and we could start with the activity everyone came there for - RPG game.  A game master was cruel, but a good storyteller at the same time. Therefore everyone was immersed into that other world very quickly and nothing could make us leave it. Of course, the rain has interrupted the game a few times - we had to patch a roof of a tent, then to relocate all the stuff to the terrace (as the tent couldn't hold the water anymore), then to go back to tent (as the rain stopped). Armed with laughter, raspberry and mint teas, or beer, we continued our journey in our fantasy world which turned out to be a good mass "hallucination". Oh, and in the end every character died - a mass hallucination turned into a mass grave.
But  what I liked most out of this weekend, was the fantastic sky. Whether it was clear, or cloudy, menacing us with heavy rain or beautifully fading into the night - I was a little bit hypnotized by it's beauty - all I could do is hold my camera and keep taking pictures.



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