Coffee and a train of thoughts
I had stopped for a quick coffee, on my way to the library where I spent the afternoon. However, I had a bit of a scare while roaming through the woods.
As I jumped over a fallen old tree, from my vantage point and lighting; In the distance, a gigantic wild boar was staring back at me.
I squinted my eyes to focus on the boar's ears for any movement, but I was struggling to see clearly. There wasn't anywhere for me to run, because the path that I had taken was remote, with no evidence of foot traffic. So, my only escape would have been to make a U-turn. However, I just stood there contemplating...
"Will the boar catch me?
"Could I swiftly hurdle over the fallen tree that I'd just railed a few minutes earlier?"
Then my blood pressure lowered, and I gasped with a sigh of relief.
The wild boar standing in the path was a mammoth-sized old tree stump.
I was laughing hysterically at myself and in the moment I gave the tree stump a good kick, but I forgot to snap a photo. I was keen to get out of the woods after that.
I'm not sure if it was a moment of fear or lack of caffeine that made my brain connect wild boar with roaming through the woods, but I certainly needed a coffee fast.
I gulped this latte and ate that chocolate like a hungry wolf, as I tried to restore a sense of calm before I crossed over to the library.
Once I was walking down the street and I looked up and saw a cloud formation of a beautiful woman with a veil. I was so mesmerised by the beauty above.
...You saw that big bear above, right?
Well, back in 2018, I was sitting in the passenger seat in Valencia, Dumaguete Philippines, when I spotted that "big bear" above. I didn't mention what I observed, but to my surprise, my girlfriend who was driving started to giggle, and in her Kiwi accent she said, "Hey, doesn't that look like a bear."
Haha! There was someone with the same brainwaves.
When I got to the library, the aftermath of my earlier scare had passed by the time I got there. The coffee combined with the comforting smell of books made me calm and settled... and it felt like a real treat being in the railway section with information on every aspect of British Railway Studies and railway societies across Britain.
I was just getting comfortable and was about to finish the post when the librarian came to announce that the library would be closing in 5 minutes.
I'll be back at the library next week because its conducive workspace makes it hard not to. There was a sign in the library that said they serve Fairtrade coffee, so I'll be sure to support them next time.
Whew! Coffee saved the day.
Have you ever experienced pareidolia? I would love to hear some of what you have seen, and I'd also like to know if you saw the bear:D
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Do you always cross the woods when going out to other places?
It seems like you had a quiet time in there since it is a library.
I'm looking for a library that also has a coffee shop. I hope I can find one with English books, not just Chinese..
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Yes, I have to take a 10-minute walk through the woods to get to the town. There's a clear footpath, but I went off the beaten track and halfway through, I thought maybe I should have turned back. I was having fun jumping hurdles till I saw "the wild boar". I get the feeling that someone recognised that it looked like one and decided to leave it there, cos when I got up to it, there was a hidden path there. 😂
This library is massive and I have not even explored it yet. I've only been to the quiet room twice.
I bet that's always a struggle for you.
I'll always take pizza.
Have a lovely day:)))
I would probably freak out if I saw wild boar haha..
Haha! I'm sure you would... even though they are only a danger if they feel threatened. I just think it's best to never be caught in such a situation unless you are culling and have the right gear, haha!
Good photos and of course good coffee. 😊☕
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Thank you! It was delicious, indeed:)))
You infected me with your pareidolia, I saw the bear. Spooky! Hahaha. I am one of those who see things that look like others and in truth I have also been scared a lot.
Luckily it wasn't a wild boar, you made me laugh at that part🤭. Thanks for sharing.
Happy weekend.
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Yeah, I definitely see it in the abstract, and I appreciate abstract art.
I guess I'm just great at connecting the dots and can see faces and other images from my imagination. 😂
It's interesting that you saw the bear too. I wonder how many people drive by and see the bear in the sky.
Have a happy weekend too, and I hope that you'll pop in on the Coffee Conversation.
I'll drop by later ☕️
I'm already preparing for the conversation, hehehe. I'll read you over there.
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Ok, That's awesome... I'll catch up with you there:)
Pareidolia, yes. Though due to me being ridiculously phobic, I often see bugs where there are none, lol. Especially in my peripheral vision; I see some dark spot and my brain goes "BUG!!!!" but no. 😂
And I did see the bear! :)
Oh, seeing things that were must be horrible. I'm happy that doesn't happen to me because I would see everything slender and think it's a snake.
However, if I'm in a room and the tiniest of worms or any insect moves, I will not miss it.
I do like seeing faces in objects though, cos it's strange that we identify the shape of the face, but do not necessarily see any resemblance to any particular person.
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Oh for sure. I see faces in things too!
Hehe! I do find it funny and smile when I do 😆
Ahhh~ library! I’ve been meaning to go but a little bit of fear holds me back. So cool that the library serves coffee. It’s like a great hangout place. I’ve been wanting to have that too.
And I saw the bear! 😅
I do hope that you'll get to visit some libraries there, with English books, of course.
I was pleased to see the coffee sign, and I can't wait to try it.
Haha! Can you imagine how the bear continues to grow 😂
I sure hope I can find English books in libraries here! 😅
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Hello, @millycf1976
I saw big bear there!
Indeed for coffee person, needed quick coffee to make brain works well.
You seems enjoy time at library. That's makes me want to go the library in my city too.
Greetings, Milly.
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Yes, if there's a library in your area, you should definitely visit. There's always something of interest to be found in a library.
Thanks for stopping by.
Have a great weekend:)))
Have a great weekend too
Thank you 🤗
Hahahaha, this happened to me a lot of time, i call it namalikmata. As for me, the latest one was when I saw this string made of old clothes in our door. It suddenly move that I thought it is the "Tuko" that current staying in our comfort room, I really jump out in the cr fast after seeing it. When I check, I was like "the heck, this is not the size of that damn tuko" haha, but they have the same color kasi, lol.
Anyways, the Library, it's been so long since I last visited on it. I'm not sure if the little library we have here in our place is still operating though.
Haha! I was fascinated by the Tuko. I had one that lived on my terrace.
We have many lizards in Jamaica. They are smaller than the tuko, but women are extremely terrified of them. So, it's normal to see women in the streets screaming out for men to go inside their houses to remove tiny little lizards.
When I was living in the Philippines, a snake came into my apartment. I ran out so fast 🤣 A group of locals went inside trying to locate the snake and they could not find it. A lady took up my clothes iron and asked if the cord was what I saw and thought it was a snake. Eventually, they found the snake under a low TV stand. They were frightened by how aggressive the snake was, and it was a lot longer than I had told them it was 🤣
Oh a library that serves coffee 👍 Finding such a place with lots of books and coffee is a gem around here. There use to be big book store in malls with a coffee shop. I think one of them was Barnes and Nobles and there use to be a lots of them but a lot are gone. Sad but book stores are becoming a thing of the past. Now just public libraries remain hoping they don't disappear. I can bring coffee in there they just don't offer it. One cup is not enough though and I don't think they would like it much if I brought a coffee machine in there with me !LOLZ
Seen many bears fornately not toe to toe in the wild. Closest was on a road but in car moving. Bear was in woods about 15 feet away. As far as scary stories, I once was walking in a wooded forest and heard some loud crunching of branches. It was something that had some weight to it. I wasn't in bear country so my mind was telling me it could have been a bigfoot, hehe. I high tailed it out of there. I was fornate it was ahead of me and not my only way out.
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I had a Barnes and Noble card when I lived in Jamaica, and they'd ship books from the States to me. I remembered it when I saw the card at my mum's house last year.
I bet you do see wild species where you are, I guess it's the shock more than anything else. There's not much to see here in the UK but foxes and wild boars. I've never seen a boar, and it's not even an animal that I thought of before, yet the object was the canning image of a boar.
🤣 That's never nice, you know!
It's good that you had a path to run through 🤣
If I was attacked by any wild animal, I'm sure the first question anyone would have asked was what the heck was I doing on that section.😆
These stories and experiences do cause an adrenaline rush.
Have a great weekend:)))
That's funny about the boar. I think we have all been there at some point, thinking we saw something that turns out to be something else. Actually I think the opposite scenario would be worse.
Person walking through the woods all
"La la la, hmmm... cool stump! la la la"
Person gets mauled to death by a bear.
R.I.P. 💀
Haha! Yeah, when you think about it that way, it makes sense. I guess that happens too, you know.
I just read about a 66-yr man who who was mauled to death by a black bear, while he was sipping his coffee outside.
This shit happens.
There's not much to be afraid of here in the UK though. I like foxes but people say I should be careful with them... and apparently, the reports are that wild boars here often get intimidated by females with dogs. Haha! I'm a cat person 😆 #justsayin'
Hopefully he died doing something he loved...
Yeah animals are losing their habitats so I'm sure that makes some more aggressive
That's a nice way to look at it.
Spot on 🙌
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Haha Just some days ago I saw a big stone mouse in a post from @coquicoin 🙂
I didnt know there is a word for it #pareidolia but I see them everywhere.
Railways studies? My great grandpa was one of the first lokomotive drivers here, you know those great old black widely smoking Machines. Tschuuuuu tschuuuuuuuu tschuuuu.
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Oh, wow! I must flick through Coquicoin's post, cos I'm sure I'd see that too.
That's amazing about your great-grandpa.🤗 I'm a Steamtrain fanatic... I could spend the day hopping on and off them, and I'd be over the moon. 😍😁
Happy weekend:)))
Hehe, the head of the giant mouse. But in that sense, I must say that you have a lot of imagination, dear beeber ;)
But I can see @millycf1976 's bear :)
Ps: By the way I also learned the word pareidolia with this post. Thank you, Milly
Happy Saturday evening to you both 🤗😘
Oh, I'm just seeing this comment 😁
I would love to see that giant mouse. I just think that these things are so fascinating.
Hope you're having a lovely Sunday:)))
Hello dear friend @millycf1976 good day
It's a good thing it was just a scare, and the lack of caffeine didn't let you see clearly.
I loved your order that cafe con leche and those sandwiches look delicious.
I am like you, I love to see the sky and discover the shapes that form the clouds
I hope you didn't see anything strange on the way back home.
Have a lovely weekend
No, I was dreading the walk back because it was raining and I didn't have a jacket or an umbrella.
It's a different feeling walking through it in the rain, and to say I was alert is an understatement...
As tempting as it was to go back and take a photo of the tree stump, I decided to walk the main footpath through the woods. I was alone for the entire 10 minutes, and I felt a sense of relief when I got home:)))
I'm glad you chose a safer path. Also, what could I do without your rain gear?
Have a splendid afternoon
I was gonna purchase a cheap disposable poncho, but I changed my mind.
Have a lovely day:)
Oh hell, you had me for a second there. Was about to ask if giant boars are a common occurrence in your area. Glad it turned out not to be the case. <3 That first photo is gorgeous, I love everything about it, the shadows, the light. Gorgeous. The library seems hella peaceful too. Glad you found this space!!
Hehe!
I'm glad that it was just a scare.
I think I'll stick to the main path from now on, or else it could be a "cry wolf" situation 🤣
Thanks,😊 I was inspired to make all photos black and white from the... btw, did you see the bear, and have you ever experienced anything like that?
I did not, though I do frequently see images in the clouds 😊
Ok, I think the clouds is the most common place to experience such :D
There was just the most stunning sky here today, and I guess talking moved me to take out the camera for some cloud-gazing. Thank you for that! I had a whale of a time and prolly wouldn't have, were it not for this conversation :)
Oh, I'm so happy to hear that. Doing these little things can uplift our moods. I had a fairly decent day too, just soring some personal belongings at home and my mind feels clearer:)
Unexpected value in something so small, right? I'm glad you have a good day, my dear!
Yes, you're absolutely right about that 😁🤗
I thought this was fiction at first, it seemed like a cool intro for a novel. I can't see the bear but I frequently see stuff in the clouds.
Haha! No, I wish it was 🤣
I can't believe that you cannot see the humongous bear 👀😂
Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend:)))
Gosh, I can imagine the scare you got with that supposed boar. I've had this happen to me a couple of times when I go up in the mountains. But my biggest fear is the tree branches on the ground, I can see 'snakes' sometimes, especially when is getting dark.
Great that library, and even cooler that you were studying about trains and railways.
Have a lovely weekend:)
Ah! Do you have a great fear of snakes too? Snakes are my biggest phobias, and I would prefer to encounter two lions than a small snake 🤣
Strangely, I'm not familiar with boars at all, and a boar is the last animal I would have thought of being attacked by in the woods. Yet, the tree stump was the spitting image of one.
Have a great weekend too, and I hope that you can pop over to the Coffee Conversation. I will do so tomorrow 🤗
I think few things scare me as much as snakes, they paralyze me. And I don't know if I'd rather meet two lions 🤣 but when I've come across small snakes in the mountains that aren't tree branches lol, I feel short of breath hehe.
I remember seeing a wild boar once many many years ago in a small contact zoo that my son loved to go to and I really wouldn't want to come across a wild one in a forest.
I'm sure I'll stop by for the coffee conversation, maybe a little later today and probably tomorrow afternoon too :) 🤗
Yeah, my phobia of snakes is horrible. I can't look at them on TV, books or even the computer without them feaking me out. I would hate to encounter them in the mountains and I understand just how you feel when you see tree branches and believe that it's a snake 🤗
Your post reminded me of a very beautiful time in my childhood, when I played with my sisters during the day to look for an image in the middle of the clouds high in the sky and at night you are my favorite when we repeated this same routine with the stars.
Answering your question regarding pareidolia, I have never been good with perception, so I am sorry to say that I can't visualize the bear.
Regarding the fright you experienced, let me tell you that fear makes us visualize things where there are none and today it played a bad trick on you.
In the same way in coffee I allow you to obtain tranquility in your agitated afternoon.
By the way, I loved the pictures
Greetings @millycf1976
Thanks for your lovely reply. I'm surprised that you can't see the enormous bear 🤣
Yeah, you're right. Fear does make us believe things sometimes. I spend so much time alone in the woods and I never realised it.
I'm glad you liked the photos 🤗
Haha 😅, coffee has finally saved the day. Wow, your photographs are really awesome. I really need to learn how to take better photographs......
I once saw a cloud shaped perfectly like a pig 😀. It had four hooves, curly tail, ears and everything. It was a perfect representation of a pig, but unfortunately during that time I didn't have a good phone to snap photo. I sit outside watching the clouds hoping I would be fortunate enough to witness it reoccur or I will see another highly detailed cloud formation but it never does.
😂 That's hilarious, but it happens. It's a fun exercise to try to observe these little things.
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Absolutely true.....I will try the YouTube tutorials. Thanks for sharing 😊.
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Let us not he fooled by the stump !LOL
Im quite a train of thoughts recently too, trying to get myself in better order. Lets keep sippin, and less trippin!
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Very nice pictures. I like to see the photos of people's everyday life, so I can join them for a coffee.
Thank you 😊
I do like to see this kind of photos from other authors too:)))
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Yikes mind does play tricks when out there unsure of surroundings, wild board doubt you could outrun it, would have to climb a tree. !LOLZ
Coffee and chocolate to the rescue, library always calming effect, smell of books.
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Possibility is always there, out in the woods walking one day !LOLZ
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