During the same trip to the Banffy Residence in Nusfalau, we found out that one of the old buildings of the residence served as an orphanage during the communism period. Nowadays it seemed more or less abandoned, with no signs of life - but still bearing the marks of its old inhabitants.

I really wanted to take a few shots that "would bring a bit of life", or at least remind about the past. While there's nothing that suggest an old, abandoned building nearby in this scene - please try to picture it right in front of you. As time permits, I'll try to post one more shot of the entire building.

"Now everything changed. My childhood world was breaking apart around me. My parents eyed me with a certain embarrassment. My sisters had become strangers to me. A disenchantment falsified and blunted my usual feelings and joys: the garden lacked fragrance, the woods held no attraction for me, the world stood around me like a clearance sale of last year's secondhand goods, insipid, all its charm gone. Books were so much paper, music a grating noise. That is the way leaves fall around a tree in autumn, a tree unaware of the rain running down its sides, of the sun or the frost, and of life gradually retreating inward. The tree does not die. It waits."

~ Hermann Hesse