That winter Wednesday I visited my son's family in Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, and they took me for a walk in Kadriorg - a historical place with a beautiful park.
I took a picture of Kadriorg Palace from the distance. The building was projected for Peter the Great in the Baroque style is beautiful and worth a cpecial post, and will probably write more about it later, when I take pictures of it in the warmer time. Now we are here just for a not very long walk in the cold winter weather.
The group of trees in the picture above reminded me a bouquet or a bunch of dried herb stems that could be placed in a vase in the entryway of a cozy house. Maybe my imagination was running wild, but I really liked them.
The cut of the trees on this alley is amazing, isn't it? And find it look more visual in the picture with ny daughter-in-law (the first of the two below). As my son said, his wife violates the law of gravity in this photo, so I had to rotate the picture (the second one) but still love the first one most.
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The Swan Pond must be beautiful in the spring or summer when black and white swans floating on the water. Now, in winter, it is like that - white, covered with ice and snow.
Walking near the swan pond in Kadriorg Park, we met a metal figure of a man "walking along the alley". That was a bronze monument to Jaan Poska, an Estonian politician, who was the mayor of Tallinn before the revolution and the collapse of the Russian Empire, from 1913 to 1917, (Estonia was a part of it at the time). Then, when Estonia was declared a Republic, he was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the new country and later he was the Prime Minister and Minister of Justice. I had never been there before and had known nothing about that person, so and had to make some investigation on the Internet.
The sculpture is not put on a pedestal, but on a pedestrian path, which makes it look like a real Mr Poska is taking a peaceful walk around the park. Very impressive!
We continued our walk through the park.
The Kadriorg Park Orangery is another target for my next visit to Tallinn, in warmer times of the year, of course. Now we are just passing by.
The Children's Museum with a playground in front of it. I do not know what is inside. I will probably go in there to see one day, not now, not now...
The giant stone near the entrance has it own name - it is "The Stone of the Children's Park".
I think, families like to take children there in any weather.
What is hidden under these cones? My guess is for roses. Will know in the summer if my guess is right.
It was getting dark fast when we were driving back home.
This is my entry for the #WednesdayWalk challenge by @tattoodjay.
My previous posts about Kadriorg:
