Summer trumpet
I have been a little quieter on the day when the night has become longer than the clear day and I am glad that we are six months like this. I cannot deny that summer has been beautiful, but it smells better to fall. Plants are made “tizas” with the arrival of autumn. The dark hours are more than the lights, and the winter will come slowly. Before the colds arrive, the seeds will harden so that they can spread through the air, either fed or glued on the skin. To do so, the fruits will be prepared; the harvest is the main season. These are the plants that live from the summer season and form their cycle. Others take advantage of the cold and short days to complete the cycle. Because they like it or by obligation, the other plants above have a single option a year to lose the accommodation and take light. These plants that take advantage of winter are opening new outbreaks; it is the second spring. Read me several times: You will have heard me say that Euskal Herria has two spring.
The summer between the two springs is passionate about trumpets. The trumpet always seemed to me to be a somewhat scandalous instrument. As in the patron festivities or in the carnivals of Tolosa, when we walked and went back with the charanga, when the trumpet sounds evident in the largest orchestra. A little scandalous. Summer is more trumpet than Joseph Haydn or Anthony Plog. Maybe that's why I'm not a talking shop.
On the day of the welcome to the fall, we have made a tour of the landscapes of the chamomile, listening to the performances of the poets Oihana Iguaran and Andoni Egaña. In the shade of trees and laurels, music was sweet and delicate. The scandal surrounding it reigned: the trumpet. Eye-catching trumpet flowers here and there. Without being able to clear the summer, trumpet flowers displayed ostensibly nocturnal flowers (Mirabilis jalapa), white perfumes or tomatoes (Calystegia sepium), oeneteras (Oenothera biennis), mortal (Nerium oleander), petunias (Petunbita x Hybrida), roses from Syria. It was a tremendous scandal and I'm sure there would be more...
But now comes another music. They'll shut up and hide the trumpets.
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