Got my first taste of early winter frost last Wednesday while going to work beyond the Młociny distrct in north Warsaw. The silver birch trees look particulary beautiful covered in the early morning frost:
As can be seen in the picture below, the small pond in front of a small Catholic shrine is lightly frozen over:
These small Catholic shrine buildings are a common thread all over Poland, and, as external symbols, help to give the country some kind of Catholic identity, although the latter will inevitably become weaker with EU secularisation and de-christianisation process:
Thus, long since gone are the yellow flowers of October, for me, the last remnant of summer in a Polish autumn:
Still, at least we haven't had any snow yet, as, last year, the snow came really early in mid-October and didn't go until mid-April.
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