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Between the hospital and the parking area there is trees. Actually it is a
little woods. Mostly pine, spruce, deciduous trees. An evening in late
summer. The sun is already low. The sunlight glares from the surface of a
directions sign. The sign is located after the parking area. First aid to
the left, main entrance to the right. There are three lamps affixed to the
top of the sign. A woman is walking down the pedestrian passage from the
main entrance. She is wearing a jogging outfit. A wide-brimmed hat
conceals her face. The hospital has been built on a hill. On the side of
the hill. The parking area lies at the foot of the hill. The construction
work of the facilities for parking has almost been finished on the hill's
other side. On the lawn there is a landing ground for helicopters. A
weathervane on top of a pole and some kind of an abstract metal sculpture
that is hard to comprehend. The entrance to the delivery ward is on the
left hand. Taxi drivers never wait in front of the hospital. Their grounds
is farther away. It is even more quiet there. This approximately is where
the river branches. I have checked it from a map. The river in reality is
just a broad stream. The water is always brown because the bed of the
stream is rather shallow. The other branch of the stream disappears
somewhere. The ornithologist people most certainly know about the place,
what it is like. Usually the people who step down from the bus here are
going to elsewhere. They just stood at the stop, waiting for some other
bus to arrive. Maybe a few of them were going to take some tests. One
couldn't tell. Rarely anyone spoke anyway. There was fairly good
visibility into both directions from the bus stop. The women were of many
ages. Some of them are still girls. The land use plan for the area is
unclear. There is a lot of landscaped field, very picturesque, most of it
cultivated at least to some degree. A portion of the field has been built
over just recently, for the most part yet uninhabited two-storey homes on
wet clay soil. There was some other stream over which some boards were
placed to facilitate a passage over.
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