A calmer hum — Where Romeo Went

I enjoy the afternoon when the sun starts moving towards the horizon. The heat is still there, but it has quietened people. The street carries on with a calmer hum.

Sunlight breaks through the leaves and falls across the pavement. I find that light and the quiet around it soothing. The heat makes this an unlikely hour to want to be outside, yet the silence it brings draws me out.

When the world is vacant, it is “liveable.”

Two men beneath a broad tree branch beside bicycles and a red tricycle. A cow crosses the sunlit street. — Under the tree.Full size

Three men in blue shirts walk beneath a broad tree branch. Scooters stand beside the pavement, with traffic in the sunlit street. — The afternoon street.Full size

A cow approaches along the pavement beneath a tree branch. A man stands behind it, and women walk farther along the street. — A cow on the pavement.Full size