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| "Suddenly I'm having a strange feeling of being watched..." |
Looking out of my kitchen window in the middle of the day, I saw the two hares "from the cemetery" out on adventures in among our human habitations again. (More often I see them in the cemetery, which is why I think of them as living there.)
"The grass is always greener on the other side" originates from the ancient Roman poet Ovid (43 BC – 17 AD), who wrote in Ars Amatoria (1 BC), "Fertilior seges est alienis semper in agris"—meaning "the harvest is always more fruitful in another man's fields". It highlights the human tendency to envy others' situations, believing them to be better than one's own.
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Apparently this does not apply only to humans, but to other creatures as well! ;)
What amazing pictures
ReplyDeleteAnd don’t those hares look incredibly healthy ?
In Sweden do you have the equivalent of our saying - mad as a March hare ?
Siobhan x
Siobhan, no, I can't think of an exact equivalent. In the Swedish translation of Alice in Wonderland, the March Hare is called "påskhare" = Easter hare/bunny. I guess that's as close as we get! But the tradition of Easter bunnies is not very strong here either...
DeleteI often see rabbits on my travels but not seen any yet this year.
ReplyDeleteCK, there used to be quite a few smaller rabbits living in the old cemetery as well, but in later years there have only been these two bigger hares. (Once I saw them with a third but recently only two again.)
DeleteWell I never knew the origin of that saying so thank you Monica.
ReplyDeleteYP, I didn't know either until googling it now. I always just thought it came from cows and sheep often seen sticking their heads out through fences to eat the grass on the other side.
DeleteYour photos look like artistic paintings. I was surprised to know that you snapped them! They kind of look like book illustrations,
ReplyDeleteGinny, I zoomed them in from my kitchen window, they were under the 1st floor balconies on the next building across the lawn.
DeleteA very cute rabbit against the scene
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy seeing them, Ro, as one doesn't really expect to see hares in town environment.
DeleteIt is always interesting to find out about the origin of a saying, so, thank you!
ReplyDeleteThose hares must be glad to have access to some grass again, not everything covered in snow.
Meike, see my reply to YP. Yes, I guess one reason they come here may be that there is more snow lingering in the cemetery still. I was surprised to see them here in the middle of the day, more usually they come to graze the lawns here at night, when proteced by dark and less people about.
DeleteI don't often see hares, but am thrilled when I do.
ReplyDeleteIt's part of the human condition to envy others - it's insidious and destructive.
Janice, now you had me looking up "insidious"... (Thanks. I like learning!) 😉
DeleteWhat a great series of hare portraits! I'm quite impressed.
ReplyDeleteThanks Barbara. Had I tried it with the phone camera they'd just have been blurry spots, but my separate camera has a better zoom...
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