Once entered and within the little thicket in the park opposite the parliament surprised. Toward the low-rise mall on one side numerous trees standing eight or more metres high had been planted close, their thin canopies up high. The simple stone monument by the path with its discontinued fountain had its signage worn away. Numerous peopled benches, also worn & weathered. During the sit voices behind led to a couple of turns round. A girl with her mother it sounded like. Nothing. On a third spurt of the same, close behind again, it was up, out of the seat and a couple paces... Oh! Oh! Within the branches of the large leafy tree white trainers perched three meters from the ground. Two prepubescents sitting close opposite each other on a branch. Beautiful light in the late afternoon; mornings were cold in the early Spring here. Smokers not visible; those restless ones sat along the riverbank. The birds, pigeons, sparrows & others, darted through the tree trunks and searched below, rather than around the benches. Fancier flowering gardens with lawn drew another class of person. Around the mall there stretched long concrete horizontals of shrubs, not as far as one could see any flowers. Even by the plaster ruin of columns what was mistaken as a rose bed were again young shrubs. The five-branched lamppost directly in front was a small price to pay. Half an hour later the young girls continued, perfectly comfortable on their perch. They could not be disturbed with questions.
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