'A friend in need is a friend indeed.'
'Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.'
These are the two most well known sayings about friends, but there are many others and those of Dear Readers who wandered here constantly working on their English (I surely do), as well as those kind enough to help the first ones, are welcome to add other sayings about friends in the comments section.
I think I owe an explanation. Not that praising friends I am complaining about my own family. It just happens to be the case that we are all scattered around the Northern Hemisphere at present. Therefore I am so grateful to my friends for being there for me.
Anyway, on Thursday, the 30th of May 2013 one would expect me to write about The Feast of Corpus Christi and how it is celebrated in Poland, where it is a holy day of obligation (in other words a feast of precept). Well, this year for me it was a day of travelling from Krakow to Skarzysko. With my delicate leg, my friends kindly gave me a lift in the morning on the way to their relations further north. It meant we missed the colourful procession of The Blessed Sacrament performed at the end of a Holy Mass in every church of the country. The only 'trace' of the procession we could see driving through one of the villages was a little girl in a folk costume carrying a decorated with ribbons, little wicker basket which held petals of fresh flowers. Why? Well... Why don't you tell me for a change?
Hey, I just found a link for Corpus Christi processions at Skarzysko parishes 2013 AD:
http://skarzysko24.pl/wiadomosci/aktualnosci/10922-bozecialowskarzysku.html
:-)
Here are pictures taken on the way north of Krakow. No photo of the girl, we flashed by too quickly. However, you can see the travelling horses and some countryside:
And here is a very special plant:
Maybe one day I'll tell you why I call it special...
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