Catch if you can

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A lot of melting snow inspired me to write this blog. It is about “importance of being earnest”, as were generations before our generation. This wisdom says, that if the snow melts rapidly and there are no trees or there is rocky subsoil, as it is in mountains, then another catastrophe is just behind the corner.
We have quite often mini floods in eastern Europe.
Not in Western Slovakia, where in the Carpathian mountains have existed special stone canals collecting waters from slopes in order to spit them in to reservoirs/pools.
This is one of them.

Its waters have high tide in spring and low tide in summer, when the level of the water is about 2 meters lower.

Some enterprising fellows got idea, that it would be a good
carp pond – and started with the farming of carps. Others, who are poor on ideas, are not allowed to fish here.

So I went closer to a group of fishermen, just to have a polite chat and make some more photos. It showed, that they are all poachers and my camera made them nervous.
So I said “No photo boys, no control”,
As they stared on me, I did not feel bad, I must say :), but my reasonable ego told me it would be safer to leave them asap. I am sure they would like to be ashamed, but I left earlier, so there wasn´t from whom.

And this is another way – I think 300 hundred year old – how to control waters from the heaven. Under the pipe from gargoyl, there is a deep ditch. It is said, it must be raining two months in order to fill it up :) But nobody remembers it filled with waters…

• 18 Feb, 2012
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