bananas

 Stride up the path, it is late, but as it has been raining there are few people about. Meet the collector of Leica cameras and his wife, both young, sprightly, above, eighty years old. Chat for a few minutes and then go on up to the birds. 

The intention today is to make a short video of the birds as a greeting to the sister in law. For her birthday, as a greeting, the video would show her brother in law with the birds looking over his shoulder. That was the idea, and as a special treat a banana.

Two things go wrong. As it is late, the birds have already received their official food and are not hungry. And they appear to hate bananas. The one sniffs at a piece of banana and shakes, as if nauseated. They do not know bananas. They were happy to eat apples, but bananas do not appear to be a good idea. The whole plan was a failure, try again tomorrow.

Walk back down to the town, walk along the river. Make a long telephone call to a dear friend.

And then go back home, it is good to hear that the son is practising his piano prior to the piano lesson.