The summer hasn’t been great for the weather this year. It’s been raining a lot in the afternoons but heat can combine with humidity, hence, sometimes it stays hot well into the night.
There is talk that fewer Romans are leaving the city for holidays in summer. I can attest this by listening to the traffic. In the summer, I keep the windows open because the apartment doesn’t have air-conditioning which allows the roaring noise from the nearby street to invade my usually quiet abode. Fewer Romans out of the city in the summer means more Romans crawling pubs at night and the traffic subsists until 3 or 4 o’clock AM.
So painting has become a way for me to escape the ringing-ears that come from lack of sleep and constant vehicular rumble in addition to the drilling from the remodeling project in the apartment downstairs.
When I saw this sight, I was standing mid-way across a walking-bridge over the Tibur. It not only seemed to tranquilize my mind, but proved to be a quiet place to stay in this noisy city.
