Imaginary. Imaginativ

"But only if...

this emptiness of life will no longer be..." 

At sunset.  Felix - Bihor County

Imaginary tale. By Alexa T

If one day you'll see me,

right in the middle of the street,

then just keep the rhythm

of your subtle and stumbled walk.

And pretend that we're surrounded

by thousands of souls

speaking loud with

harsh voices.

Stunned and amazed,

by the strange view,

gently raise your pale hand,

waving slowly.

Like sitting in a busy station,

where the last bus,

passed along, filled with

emptiness in mind.

And If, one day,

I'll see you,

I'll surely pretend

that we're surrounded,

by an noisy crowd of souls,

in the middle of the freeze of fall.

Then, gently, to spread away,

I'll wave my livid hand,

and I'll catch the rumour buzz

of the agitated street

to liberate the sound

of inner calm...

But only if...

that emptiness of life will no longer be...

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Definitions of imaginary

adjective:
existing only in the imagination.
"He had imaginary conversations with her"
synonyms: 
unreal, nonexistent, fictional, fictitious, pretend, make-believe, 
mythical, mythological, fabulous, fanciful, storybook, fantastic, 
made-up, dreamed-up, invented, concocted, fancied, 
illusory, illusive, a figment of one's imagination, visionary;
(of a number or quantity) expressed in terms of the square root of a negative number 
(usually the square root of -1, represented by i or j ).
"What was most perplexing was that in using these subtle and imaginary numbers it was possible to solve cubic equations."
See also

imaginary part, imaginary number, imaginary line, imaginary enemy

Translations of imaginary
adjective
imaginar: imaginary, fancied, fanciful, visional, visionary, notional
închipuit: imaginary, fancied, fictitious, unreal, false, ideal
ireal: unreal, fabled, imaginary, fabulous, fanciful, aeriform
Sursa/ Source: internet

Stay positive, today, tomorrow and always! 

Rămâi pozitiv, astăzi, mâine și întotdeauna!

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"Walking away"... sau impresii de departe în brumar?

Fond memories from the summer vacation!

Yes... too many photos were made (guess who's to blame for it) and... some of them (I must say it) seems to be so interesting (just because of the details captured), some are so funny, (some of them quite) so sensitive, so finally.... what can I say?

It's november already and I'm still sorting through vacation photos from a while, creating chapters (to simplify for the moment when I'll look for a specific detail, like place or time or whatever) and...

Finally (concluding): I have fond memories of these... photo instants captured by camera lens!!

Amintiri plăcute din vacanța de vară!


Da ... au fost făcute prea multe fotografii (ghici cine e de vină pentru asta) și ... unele dintre ele (trebuie să o spun) par atât de interesante (din cauza detaliilor capturate), unele sunt atât de amuzante, (unele dintre ele ) atât de sensibile, deci .... ce pot să spun?

E noiembrie deja și eu sunt încă la capitolul sortare,  printre fotografiile de vacantă, de ceva timp, creând capitole (pentru a simplifica în cazul în care voi căuta un detaliu specific, cum ar fi ceva legat de loc sau de timp sau orice altceva) și ...

În cele din urmă (ca o concluzie): Am amintiri plăcute legate de aceste momente ... foto instanturi capturate de lentilele camerei!!

Roads.




Roads through memories.
Something about the travelling way:
Along the northwest part of the country on the railways, "a trip road" (like I called it...lol) into the "schlafwagen" for almost 13 hours ... how it sounds?! quite unbelievable... (but it's not yet the time to tell you more about this "too pricey" kind of traveling ... on "the iron wheels" with the pleasant melody sound as background, but ... a little too annoying or stressing the tiredness for the so long time spent on the way... 13 hours of train travel - just imagine this!!)
So... these are sensitive instants about I was talking above...

Places where I've been and what I saw, (from a blink of an eye), 
and about of what I'm hoping to have time (soon enough)  to create some pleasant posts.

Locuri unde am fost și ce am văzut, (intr-o clipire de ochi) 
și despre ceea ce am speranța de a găsi timp (destul de repede) pentru a realiza posturi plăcute...

• Oradea, județul Bihor (main city of Bihor county - below)

• Băile Felix (the balnear resort & the natural reserve of water lilies

                  
                  The natural reserve of water lilies in a mosaic. A pink water lily in macro (below).

• Satul Cordău - localitate în județul Bihor, Transilvania, România / Cordău village in Bihor County.

• Băile 1 Mai, județul Bihor (Balnear resort). Below : The old Casino (historic monument). 

• Nature reserve at Pârâul Pețea situated in 1 Mai Balnear Resort./ Aria naturală protejată Pârâul Pețea 

• Zona Betfia, județul Bihor; (Vedere dinspre Avenul Betfia sau Huda Bradii)

Betfia Area, Bihor county - Rural view. Countryside panorama (above) and view in b&w (below).

• Budapesta & Dunărea/ Budapest & Danube/ Hungary. View of Danube in Budapest with the Royal Palace on the left side and the Old Bridge over Danube waters. 
• At 250km far from Oradea.

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Definitions of road*

noun:

a wide way leading from one place to another, especially one with a specially prepared surface that vehicles can use.

"New roads were constructed ..."

synonyms: 

street, lane, avenue, boulevard, freeway, highway, parkway, thoroughfare, thruway, turnpike.

A series of events or a course of action that will lead to a particular outcome.

"he's well on the road to recovery"

*from Did you Know Category. Source: internet

**Sursa/Source: lessonslernedinlife.com

Walking away is the best way.

Stay positive, today, tomorrow and always! 
Rămâi pozitiv, astăzi, mâine și întotdeauna!

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Ilustrate din vacanță/ Postcards from summer holiday. Greetings (II)

                 
    

  

     A mix of thoughts...

           Let me ask you a question: How can we bring back a part from our jolly past?!...

... with the aid of a sensitive and dear memory that it will always be well kept in a corner of our soul? right?...


  ... It can be possible to bring back that time?... for instance: the remembrance of those funny times that we've spent in childhood?

      Can we hold still alive one part or more from our past even with all those aspects, good or bad, happy or sad, beautiful or ugly?!... or it is useless?...

       In some moments I have to say that when I'm seeing some people, places or things, I really can't stop to ask myself about time... about what  we always called it: as life/existence and that, unfortunately,  it goes so quickly ...

In order to find out answers:

I discover that it takes so much energy to have the strength to manage all the effects brought at surface by this process of looking back to passing years after years ...

So...one more question: can we keep only the good... from what we've lived? Of course, you'll say... there will be a nonsense... good without bad?!...

For every aspect in life there is an opposite: beauty-ugliness, well-bad, new-old...so on and on... categories of philosophical questions about existence and self knowledge...

But still... for instance: let's say that we're in the middle of a holiday trip...

  ...Can It be considered useful to us to have a look back in time and to find ourselves as a sort of travellers...
      ...in challenge of trying to rebuild a lost moment? as a matter of saying...

... It can be considered useful to try to find out again the lost glory of a dear place recalling somehow, from a glance of eye, some old memories...

            From the years of childhood, for instance, when we had spent the most happy days...

         Maybe it's possible... but still how much sadness it is involved... so much melancholy is involved in this process... and so much despair that it is only a recalled special moment from time...
....and so much truth...
....that the time it really cannot be brought back ... nor the far past, neither those happy moments when we enjoyed them so happy as children...
As adults, we only see that the time is passing, irreversible... and in the reality around us, only in stories it's correct to say:... "they lived happily ever after"...

              All we can say, with no doubt, it is that: " once upon a time"... I lived, I went, I was... so happy at...

nb. Hope that you'll understand that I'm not such a good thinker, philosopher, just a persona in search of simple ideas already announced by others... like Proust and his "madeleine"*...

 From Did You Know category:
* "madeleine"
 Excerpts from wikipedia: "In In Search of Lost Time (also known as Remembrance of Things Past), author Marcel Proust uses madeleines to contrast involuntary memory with voluntary memory. The latter designates memories retrieved by "intelligence," that is, memories produced by putting conscious effort into remembering events, people, and places. Proust's narrator laments that such memories are inevitably partial, and do not bear the "essence" of the past. The most famous instance of involuntary memory by Proust is known as the "episode of the madeleine," yet there are at least half a dozen other examples in In Search of Lost Time." (...))

   For me: Băile Felix is that kind of "madeleine" ; 

      it is that aspect that it makes me, all the time, to be like in a quest of lost time...

                                .... and for sure some of the most happy times (that I had like in the saying  "once upon a time"... LOL...) have been "experienced" in the most happy place... at Felix!

     





                      As I already said, In the previous post,  I'll start a serie of "postcards" in images that will permit you to have a short look at the special beauty of an amazing place for my heart (since my childhood)...
 

Now let's have a look at some aspects from the nowadays at Felix...

Pictures from present. 

        At Felix - old buildings on the green alleys in the centre of the park ...

           These buildings (with "such silent look") are so important for me.  Back in time... Years ago it was such a pleasure for us to be accommodated for around 18 days/session and to spend hours with my mom at water termal treatment in this balnear resort. Lots of people, in those years of '70-'90, were so enjoyed about so many medical and balnear procedures in those locations that include: accommodation, balneo treatment (indoor pools for thermal baths and kinesiotherapy) and facilities for leisure  (outdoor).

N.b. " Băile Felix is still one of the biggest permanent spa resorts in Romania. It is located in Bihor county, 8 km away from Oradea and 22 km away from Bors customs (Hungarian border).
Geothermal hot springs (with temperatures between 20-49 degrees Celsius), modern treatment facilities and many possibilities for recreational activities can be found in Băile Felix in a Continental moderate climate with mild winters and temperate summers with mediterranean influence."

The natural reservation of water lilies at Felix near the park's centre:
 Ideal for short walks and where, also,  it can be spent a quality and pleasant time in a place with fresh air surrounded by water lilies in thermal waters and where it is possible to observe exotic fishes, turtles and frogs.

This nota is so important.
Nowadays is so trendy to travel in exotics places worldwide. And it is not wrong, but: it is also important to rediscover the old places where balnear spas and treatment cures where and still, can be, available to anyone (especially to those in search for medical cures for rheumatic affections, respiratory illness, endocrinology or for relaxation of the nervous system, etc.)

From this point of view, I'm so grateful that I have the chance to show you in pictures, just a small part, from what I always considered to be a magical place as a figure of speech.

The balnear tourism must be protected to have the chance to evolve and do not become only a memory for those who already  have an idea about it. Even despite the new attractions in tourism, the young people, I think, I presume that in time they can be interested in much more than spending their free time in such places where it can be mixed so well the leisure with balneo cure.

          So what can be found in here: on short and first of all as far as I know as a tourist: Băile Felix, as a spa resort, has a lot of facilities and balneary treatment resources for:

   -  warm baths in thermal water pools and bath tubs, indoor and outdoor swimming pools
   -  medical gymnastics

   - Balneo treatment procedures:
  - kinesiotherapy (warm thermal water baths in bathtubs and pools);
  - electrotherapy
  - hydrotherapy
  - aero-helio therapy in outdoor pools with thermal waters
    aerosols
  - warm mud and paraffin packs
  - electrotherapy and hydrotherapy
  - medical-gymnastics
  - light baths
  - sauna
  - and even cosmetics, etc.

For all of these details shown above you can find qualified info on the special sites.

Images from park. The orthodox wooden church from Felix. Biserica de lemn Sfinții Arhangheli Mihail și Gavriil

Arhiva foto privată/ Private photos archive.
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Postcards from holiday at Felix/ Ilustrate din vacanță la Felix 
(Pictures from summer holiday spent at Felix near Oradea in Bihor County:  June 25 - july 11, 2014)

 Related post: Ilustrate din vacanță. Summer holiday. Greetings (I)

Positivity

http://lessonslearnedinlife.com/allow-yourself-to-hope-to-believe-to-trust-again/ 


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Ilustrate din vacanță. Summer holiday. Greetings (I)

                Summer holiday... "love" ... "but not at first sight"...
                 Greetings from Bihor County*...

                  First of all... some infos about the Bihor county* (where I've spent my recent summer holiday and where I went for a balnear cure, for the almost 25 times till now, actually since 1978...). 

SOME INFOS ABOUT:

* "Bihor (Romanian pronunciation: [biˈhor]  is a county (județ) of Romania, in Crișana , with capital city at Oradea."
"The main tourist attractions in the county are:

• The city of Oradea.
• The Apuseni Mountains
  • The Bear's Cave.
• Băile Felix Resort and
  • The natural Water Lily Reserve of Băile Felix.
    • The Stâna de Vale Resort and the Iada valley.
    • The Caves around Padiș and on the Sighiștel River Valley.

"Romanian Crișana is bounded in Romania by Maramureș to the north, Transylvania** proper to the east, the Banat to the south, and the Hungarian Pannonian Plain to the west. The region consists of the current Romanian counties of Arad (most of it), Bihor and some parts of Sălaj, Satu Mare, and Hunedoara counties. Nowadays it is sometimes considered part of the historical region Transylvania, although it did not fall fully within the boundaries of the historical principality."

**"Transylvania is a historical region in the central part of Romania. Bounded on the east and south by the Carpathian mountain range, historical Transylvania extended in the west to the Apuseni Mountains; however, the term sometimes encompasses not only Transylvania proper, but also the historical regions of Crișana, Maramureș, and Romanian part of Banat. The region of Transylvania is known for the scenic beauty of its Carpathian landscape and its rich history."  NB. source Wikipedia

I love it... I really love Felix....

             That's why, I consider this summer holiday as a special love...

      and
 I'm so highly thankful to my mom who builded this emotion, decades after decades, while we used our energy to make long travels till to the heart of the astonishing region of Bihor County...in search of a good cure for health, cheerful time and positivity for soul and heart to the Băile Felix ...

                   My mom is my inspiration... she can be considered as a model of a strong personality in quest of being yourself, despite or, no matter how many difficulties or how many issues can come in our way...

So...always faithful... or
"Semper Fidelis"***...it can be said...

...this post is dedicated to my mom and to Felix ... 
the place where we always went in quest of happiness... 

 ***"Semper fidelis" is a Latin phrase that means "always faithful" or "always loyal".
 source  wikipedia

"Postcards" with special views at Băile Felix/ Felix Spa resort in Bihor County.
"Băile Felix is a thermal spa resort near the commune of Sânmartin in Bihor County, Transylvania, Romania. They are among the best known and most quality thermal spas in the country. 
Băile Felix is also at a close distance to Oradea, a major city in western Romania."

Collage with: 

Blue sky in the park &  Sunset over the Băile Felix forest; 
Also, various aspects from the natural Water Lily Reserve of Băile Felix
& some creatures (critters): like frogs and turtles.

   "Nelumbo nucifera - the pink lotus known by numerous common names including Indian lotus, sacred lotus, bean of India, or simply lotus, is one of two species of aquatic plant in the family Nelumbonaceae" 
and 
"Nymphaea alba, also known as the European White Waterlily, White Lotus, White Water Rose or Nenuphar, is an aquatic flowering plant of the family Nymphaeaceae." 
here: "Nymphaea lotus var. thermalis is a plant variety endemic to the thermal water of the Peţa River (Bihor County, Transylvania, Romania). The rivulet and lake have a constant temperature of 30–31°C and the subtropical water lily species is a tertiary relict. It was declared a natural monument in 1931." Source of infos: Wikipedia

                 And scenes from the train travel to the what I called a "happy place": Felix.... But because I already wrote a post about it... From now on I'll start a serie of "postcards" in images to permit you to have a short look at the special beauty of an amazing place for my heart (since my childhood)... Băile Felix & Oradea in Bihor County! 

Arhiva foto privată/ Private photos archive.

Postcards from holiday / Ilustrate din vacanță 

(Summer holiday to Felix/Oradea/Bihor 25 iunie-11 iulie 2014)

From "Did you know" Category:

Definitions of:

• Happy

adjective:

feeling or showing pleasure or contentment.

ex. "she came in looking happy and excited"

synonyms:  
cheerful, cheery, merry, joyful, jovial, jolly, jocular, gleeful, carefree, untroubled, delighted, smiling, beaming, grinning, in good spirits, in a good mood, lighthearted, pleased, contented, content, satisfied, gratified, buoyant, radiant, sunny, blithe, joyous, beatific, thrilled, elated, exhilarated, ecstatic, blissful, euphoric, overjoyed, exultant, rapturous, in seventh heaven, on cloud nine, walking on air, jumping for joy, jubilant, chirpy, over the moon, on top of the world, tickled pink, on a high, as happy as a clam, jocund

Translations of happy

adjective
	Felix		Happy, lucky, fortunate, successful, propitious, fruit-bearing
	beatus		blessed, fortunate, Happy, blissful, blithe, Saturnian
	laetus		joyful, colorful, glad, gorgeous, luxuriant, pleasing
	fortunatus		fortunate, enviable, lucky, Happy, successful, blessed

• Felix

 Felix (Latin for "happy" or "lucky")

• Postcard

Noun:
a card for sending a message by mail without an envelope, typically having a photograph or other illustration on one side.

ex: "His pictures have featured on a set of postcards and greetings cards sold in aid of the Asperger Society."

Synonyms:

noun: post card, postal card

Sursa/Source of quotes: Lessonslerarnedinlife.com

Lyrics:
"She is like the lady down the road
Or just the woman up the street,
Like any mother you may know.
To me, she is the one who had it planned
To lead us all to Wonderland,
She always wanted us to go,
And she said:
Don't ever be lonely,
Remember, I'll always care.
Wherever you may be
Remember I will be there.
And like another lady that we know
She has a smile so bright and sweet,
And hair as white as driven snow;
Though life is never easy day to day,
She has a very special way
To make us smile when we are low.
And she says:
Don't ever be lonely
Remember, I'll always care.
Wherever you may be
Remember I will be there.
Don't ever be lonely
Remember, I will be there.
I will be there.
I will be there."

 Source video internet/ excerpt www.katiemelua.com

"I Will Be There" was premiered at the Coronation Gala, at Buckingham Palace on July 11th. 
A beautiful tribute to a protective matriarchal figure, the song was written by Katie's longtime collaborator Mike Batt".


Sursa/Source of quotes: Lessonslerarnedinlife.com

Have a great summer!

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