Anyone from the UK?

Good morning everyone,

It's one of those mornings when you're heading in exactly the wrong direction, or rather, riding your bicycle in exactly the wrong direction.
It's about -5°C and there's frozen fog. Everything is white and frozen ice particles float in the beam of light from my bike. The trees, the road, the bushes, everything is white. Not like snow, which covers everything in a thick layer, but very delicate, you can see every shape, every structure.
I should ride out into the fields, towards the mountains, and then continue through the silence until the dawn breathes colour into the white. The only sound is my breath and the frost crystals bursting under the tyres of my bicycle. Occasionally, a small animal rustles silently in the bushes.
But I didn't do it. I rode in the other direction through the city. First along the river, then along the main road and over the bridge. Everything was full of noise, the road was just asphalt, the ice crystals destroyed by the heat of the vehicles, stressed people in the vehicles who like to overlook little cyclists at intersections (even though I'm wearing my red jacket).

Now I'm sitting in the office, looking melancholically into my teacup. There's so much beauty out there, and I have to sit here and work.
Well, mathematics is quite appealing too. But still...
 
Good morning everyone,

It's one of those mornings when you're heading in exactly the wrong direction, or rather, riding your bicycle in exactly the wrong direction.
It's about -5°C and there's frozen fog. Everything is white and frozen ice particles float in the beam of light from my bike. The trees, the road, the bushes, everything is white. Not like snow, which covers everything in a thick layer, but very delicate, you can see every shape, every structure.
I should ride out into the fields, towards the mountains, and then continue through the silence until the dawn breathes colour into the white. The only sound is my breath and the frost crystals bursting under the tyres of my bicycle. Occasionally, a small animal rustles silently in the bushes.
But I didn't do it. I rode in the other direction through the city. First along the river, then along the main road and over the bridge. Everything was full of noise, the road was just asphalt, the ice crystals destroyed by the heat of the vehicles, stressed people in the vehicles who like to overlook little cyclists at intersections (even though I'm wearing my red jacket).

Now I'm sitting in the office, looking melancholically into my teacup. There's so much beauty out there, and I have to sit here and work.
Well, mathematics is quite appealing too. But still...
Very poetic Anna. I wish my morning was this! It was fake birdsong on the phone for an alarm followed by the sounds of foxes having far more fun than I am at the minute 😄
 
Before the melancholy was the world enveloping you in a living white landscape, which, even if for too brief a time, you were able not merely to see, but also share with us here, thank you.
 
You are welcome.
I'm just glad that I don't live in the city center. A few sweet moments of solitude before I'm in the madness of the city.
I'm from a village and at mornings like this one I miss it.
The only sound in the morning is that stupid cock from the neighbour. And maybe a tractor. And the the dog in the other street trying to kill the postman. And the whining of the dog after the postman finally blasted it with pepper spray. And then the shouting of the dog owner. And the whining of the dog owner after the postman...
🤭
No, I made the last one up.

But honestly @StrentWriter why are you listening to the sound of fucking foxes to wake up?
😄
 
We have foxes here too. They live just 50 metres from my house in the park. The pups are so cute in spring! When they do the first trips with mommy...
They are totally fearless when they see me. Then mommy barks and they all run away.
My neighbour a few houses apart of a village girl too. She has hens and is less thrilled than I am.
😆
 
Good morning everyone,

It's one of those mornings when you're heading in exactly the wrong direction, or rather, riding your bicycle in exactly the wrong direction.
It's about -5°C and there's frozen fog. Everything is white and frozen ice particles float in the beam of light from my bike. The trees, the road, the bushes, everything is white. Not like snow, which covers everything in a thick layer, but very delicate, you can see every shape, every structure.
I should ride out into the fields, towards the mountains, and then continue through the silence until the dawn breathes colour into the white. The only sound is my breath and the frost crystals bursting under the tyres of my bicycle. Occasionally, a small animal rustles silently in the bushes.
But I didn't do it. I rode in the other direction through the city. First along the river, then along the main road and over the bridge. Everything was full of noise, the road was just asphalt, the ice crystals destroyed by the heat of the vehicles, stressed people in the vehicles who like to overlook little cyclists at intersections (even though I'm wearing my red jacket).

Now I'm sitting in the office, looking melancholically into my teacup. There's so much beauty out there, and I have to sit here and work.
Well, mathematics is quite appealing too. But still...
You should write more 😀
 
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