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All in the way of photography...
I left home early this morning in order to see and maybe also capture the sunrise, even though it promised to be of the same kind that I had already captured yesterday morning (nicely, I might add) - a cloudless one.
All the same: I was on my way. Countryside, maybe a deer or a rare bird, those were my ideas. Lovely colours, hopefully, too. So first I went along narrow country roads but found it hard to really pull over to the side whenever I saw something nice. I pulled into a dirt track and it took me past a large farm yard and further into the fields. I managed to get some photos, that I then hoped would be nice, and carried on following that dirt track.
It lead me to the edge of the woods and at that point I thought, you better turn around here and go back. But something not normal (!) told me: try this path - it might as well lead you to a nearby road. So I went into the wood with nothing but my very normal smallest 3-series BMW ... with very bad :blushing: tyres :blushing:. The path, however, soon felt like I would have been MUCH better off with a 4-wheel drive off-roader. But there was NO way I could turn.
Well, I ended at this... what looked like a cross"roads" --- a "cross-muddy-paths" it was at the most. And then what had to happen happened. I got totally and completely and very deeply stuck. Any attempts on my own to free myself by digging out the tyres and by putting twigs underneath were to no avail - my tyres are so bad (please don't tell the police! I've got myself an appointment at the garage already!), they did not get any grip at all.
So I decided I would need help. To try and call someone was no use: I had NO IDEA where I was. What could I have said to whoever (no one would have occurred to me, anyway) I would have called where to find me?
I walked.
Towards that farm that I had seen on the way out.
And I was lucky. The farmer agreed to come all that way out and into the woods with me with his tractor to pull my BMW out of the mud. First time for me to ride on the side of a tractor, actually, and then he devised a scheme of how he could pull and move the car - and it required quite some logistics and tractor-manoevering knowledge on his side to place his vehicle so he could effectively pull and not do harm to my car.
I am home.
Typing this.
Which shows that we managed to get me out of there.
Now I have NO IDEA at all how to say Thank you to that farmer. I did say thank you in words of course, admitting that just saying so would never suffice to express my gratitude, but he wiped it all off with a movement of his hand. As if it were nothing. I took his name and address and said I might send him one of my photos. The bad thing is: none of them really came out as nicely as I had thought or hoped. There is not one there that I would deem printworthy, let alone enlarge-worthy... Hm... What can I do?
From now on I will always WALK into the woods and NEVER EVER assume any longer that a path as inconspicuous as the one I took today would take me to any larger country road, and I will turn round as soon as my inner voice tells me "You better turn round here"!!! :blushing: :blushing: :blushing:
I left home early this morning in order to see and maybe also capture the sunrise, even though it promised to be of the same kind that I had already captured yesterday morning (nicely, I might add) - a cloudless one.
All the same: I was on my way. Countryside, maybe a deer or a rare bird, those were my ideas. Lovely colours, hopefully, too. So first I went along narrow country roads but found it hard to really pull over to the side whenever I saw something nice. I pulled into a dirt track and it took me past a large farm yard and further into the fields. I managed to get some photos, that I then hoped would be nice, and carried on following that dirt track.
It lead me to the edge of the woods and at that point I thought, you better turn around here and go back. But something not normal (!) told me: try this path - it might as well lead you to a nearby road. So I went into the wood with nothing but my very normal smallest 3-series BMW ... with very bad :blushing: tyres :blushing:. The path, however, soon felt like I would have been MUCH better off with a 4-wheel drive off-roader. But there was NO way I could turn.
Well, I ended at this... what looked like a cross"roads" --- a "cross-muddy-paths" it was at the most. And then what had to happen happened. I got totally and completely and very deeply stuck. Any attempts on my own to free myself by digging out the tyres and by putting twigs underneath were to no avail - my tyres are so bad (please don't tell the police! I've got myself an appointment at the garage already!), they did not get any grip at all.
So I decided I would need help. To try and call someone was no use: I had NO IDEA where I was. What could I have said to whoever (no one would have occurred to me, anyway) I would have called where to find me?
I walked.
Towards that farm that I had seen on the way out.
And I was lucky. The farmer agreed to come all that way out and into the woods with me with his tractor to pull my BMW out of the mud. First time for me to ride on the side of a tractor, actually, and then he devised a scheme of how he could pull and move the car - and it required quite some logistics and tractor-manoevering knowledge on his side to place his vehicle so he could effectively pull and not do harm to my car.
I am home.
Typing this.
Which shows that we managed to get me out of there.
Now I have NO IDEA at all how to say Thank you to that farmer. I did say thank you in words of course, admitting that just saying so would never suffice to express my gratitude, but he wiped it all off with a movement of his hand. As if it were nothing. I took his name and address and said I might send him one of my photos. The bad thing is: none of them really came out as nicely as I had thought or hoped. There is not one there that I would deem printworthy, let alone enlarge-worthy... Hm... What can I do?
From now on I will always WALK into the woods and NEVER EVER assume any longer that a path as inconspicuous as the one I took today would take me to any larger country road, and I will turn round as soon as my inner voice tells me "You better turn round here"!!! :blushing: :blushing: :blushing: