Part 4 - „Living together“ in „Knyazhevska Forest” Park

It is already clear – this is one of the sunniest projects. Why? Because each one of the four main days when we have gathered the weather was sunny, sweet and warm. Normally, in this season one should also expect other states of the nature. We are thankful for this natural support!

We start at the usual time – 10.00 o’clock in the morning. We got all the necessary tools for the day. We divided us in the three different areas where we would work today,  – the compost zone, the children’s corner and the repose area.   

The outlines of the sand pool in the children’s corner are getting filled up. Bucket after bucket and wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow the sand is getting there.  

We knuckle down to work and started sewing a cover for the pool – to protect and keep the it clean when the children don’t play there.

Just next to the sand pool, small wooden poles are placed next to each other for the children to play on.   

The liveliest area is the repose area. Here the volunteers start shaping  the future “River of flowers”. First they set the outlines of the pathway that leads from two directions to the place where the bench will be installed. It is strategically located at the “spring” of the “flowers’ river”.

From there one will be able to see the blooming beauty of 400 tulips, 200 daffodils, twisted circles of daisies, aconite, flowering shrubs…a beautiful site. It is still not visible, because now the flowers are just bulbs and the shrubs are still small and have not burst into blossom. Nevertheless, even now the place looks as if caring hands touched it. Look at what it was before the start in the previous posts. 

 

While we are working a car stops and a man from the neighborhood tells us: “You need to appoint non-stop security guards here, to protect what you have done. People are vandals.” 

We strongly hope that he will not be right and we count on the humaneness in people, which alike the small flowers that will bloom, and start giving care and attention toward the already achieved development.    

Today is a special day for us. We have an inner reason to be joyful. We are in the end of the beginning, we have finalized the beginning of the new area. The base and structure for the repose area is finalized, in the Children´s Kingdom the sand pool is at place together with the first toy and the compost zone is ready to be used.

  
And the end of the beginning is good enough occasion to eat a piece of cake – all of us together!    

Read more about our development of the area in the next blog post!