Today, while driving around the inland area seventy-eighty kilometers from my hometown, I decided to stop and take a break in the small village of Vela Traba.

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I never visited this place before nor was I aware of its existence.

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The narrow country lane that leads to the village was bordered by fresh green grass and plenty of flowers. Yellow daffodils were the showiest ones.

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There isn't much to see in Vela Traba, but what is there is nice and photogenic. Here you can see the cluster of houses that form the center of the village. Behind the garden wall of one of those houses by the road, I noticed a pretty unique tree.

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Its sawed-off branches were covered with strange protuberances so the thing resembled more some alien, Lovecraftian creature than a terrestrial plant. 
Great Cthulhu still has a firm hold on Vela Traba.

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This weathercock also looked pretty cool against the partially cloudy backdrop of the sky. 

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The metal rooster was mounted on the top of the simple but elegant construction above the old well made of stone long ago.

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While watching the well through the bars of the locked gate ...

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... I noticed plenty of plants that grew in neat lines between large stone plates of the platform with the well on its top.

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These Geranium purpureum plants ...

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... were covered with many small flowers.

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Here you can see one of the big stone spheres mounted on the pillars of the gate.

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Another sphere of the same size was laying on the ground, near the damaged corner of the wall.

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I spent most of my half an hour in Vela Traba observing and photographing the old well.

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At one point a small truck loaded with orange gas bottles passed me by.

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Some minutes later I was waving goodbye to the flowers at the edge of the village before entering the car and driving away.

*AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END.*

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