nice picture…the first words that come to my mind are:
1. Emptiness 2. Gloomy 3. Cold
This is what I felft when I saw the picture…though my feelings have been known to be wrong from time to time 😉
anonymous
Desert Bloom
Would you like to trade for -5 f and 20 mph winds with half meter of snow on the way?? I call that empty/gloomy and cold!
Hesham
Desert Bloom
Actually I love the cold the weather… but my comments about how the picture felt to me as a viewer, I didn’t want to actually give a weather report based on Mahmoud’s snapshot
chrisamillion
Desert Bloom
It’s nice to see a picture taken in Bahrain with some clouds and some blue sky!…it doesnt happen very much except for brief periods at the beginning and end of the year!
It’s good to have some empty lots of land, like parks, where people can walks their dogs and kids can play football. It seems to me (correct me if i’m wrong) but in Bahrain gardens aren’t generally that big so larger comunal spaces are ideal. Sadly with all the development going on in Bahrain the easily accessible “parks” and becoming very scarce.
mahmood
Re: Desert Bloom
Same here actually, I love the snow and the cold weather generally. You can always put on more clothes to get warm, however for the heat, you can’t take off your skin to get cooler!
I agree with your assessment of the photograph, it does give you that sense of emptiness. Unfortunately, even this relatively small piece of land is on the way out. It has been bought by a property developer and they intend to build high class villas on it, so this photograph would be recording this lovely scene for posterity. Unfotunately the future generations won’t have time to just go out in the desert and enjoy a scene like this, not the solitude it offers.
mahmood
Absence of parks in Bahrain
True Chris. The only places available which might (with a huge truck of salt) resemble the parks you’re talking about are the Salmaniya Garden, Water Garden and Andalus Garden. i have no idea if any of them is still running. I’ve read in one paper a few days ago that the Manama muni is asking for budget to renovate the water garden, so I assume that it’s not usable. Andalus and Salmaniya I remember from childhood and haven’t gone back to since.
I would be nice – actually very necessary – to DRAG this country into the modern age where leasure places are required so that people can just walk and unwind. Once they do that they will be better productive people both at home and work.
We need proper parks – and no, not of the segregated variety. We need squares without having to suffer any harassment from roving pubescent males nor bearded folk. We need places we can just walk or trek. And we need some beaches! It is ludicrous that an island does not have any public beaches for people to enjoy themselves at.
Most of all we need common sense! We need to NOT throw our rubbish all over the place and destroy even the small disperate places that people can enjoy. We need to understand that we have to be courteous to other people using the facilities. And we need to understand that if we are using a facility, then we don’t automatically own it because we used it for a couple of times.
It was good that I noted that they opened a 1km walking path in Sanad the other day, we need more of those all over the island.
anonymous
Desert Bloom
🙂
Hesham
Desert Bloom
What a same…as you know most natural green area have been romeved in order to get artificial grass planted instead. I miss the way Dubai looked like when I was growing up..
Denver is where I went to school, the cold, snow, sking and the amazing natural scenes is what I loved about the city and state.
johndowne
Desert Bloom
Yes, i agree with you Mahmoud 100% re the lack of open spaces here but there are some if you look…I live very near Dilmun Avenue and within 5 minutes’ walk there are Andalus gardens 9the retored one), Andalus gardens (the unrestored one), another small park behind that german kitchen shop. But overall, they are pretty appalling.
I went for a very long walk in the desert yesterday and wherever i walked there was rubbish -in the UK, we had a campaign in the 60’s (and still going) called ‘keep britain beautiful’ or simiar and it was an encouragement to clear up your crap and nbot throw it out of the car window.
Why can’t the King/PM/CP back something like that — that WOULD e a useful initiative.
The Johnster
mahmood
Re: Desert Bloom
We have the same scheme, and even fines for anyone throwing/leaving rubbish improperly, but those fines as with hundreds of other laws are never applied. I have personally seen traffic cops for instance turn around when they see a “nice numbered” car break the law so that they don’t “get involve” or report it.
The public just don’t care it seems… “there is always someone who will come and clean up after us so why should we bother” syndrome is so entrenched here that it is difficult to dislodge without the government equally applying laws and fines across the board.
Just look closer at the photograph: you’ll see building waste, styroform fruit boxes and various other rubbish lying around… this is an area that is on a really busy area (by the Saar roundabout) and several street cleaners, municipality officials and people walk and drive by throughout the day.
Comments
Desert Bloom
nice picture…the first words that come to my mind are:
1. Emptiness
2. Gloomy
3. Cold
This is what I felft when I saw the picture…though my feelings have been known to be wrong from time to time 😉
Desert Bloom
Would you like to trade for -5 f and 20 mph winds with half meter of snow on the way?? I call that empty/gloomy and cold!
Desert Bloom
Actually I love the cold the weather… but my comments about how the picture felt to me as a viewer, I didn’t want to actually give a weather report based on Mahmoud’s snapshot
Desert Bloom
It’s nice to see a picture taken in Bahrain with some clouds and some blue sky!…it doesnt happen very much except for brief periods at the beginning and end of the year!
It’s good to have some empty lots of land, like parks, where people can walks their dogs and kids can play football. It seems to me (correct me if i’m wrong) but in Bahrain gardens aren’t generally that big so larger comunal spaces are ideal. Sadly with all the development going on in Bahrain the easily accessible “parks” and becoming very scarce.
Re: Desert Bloom
Same here actually, I love the snow and the cold weather generally. You can always put on more clothes to get warm, however for the heat, you can’t take off your skin to get cooler!
I agree with your assessment of the photograph, it does give you that sense of emptiness. Unfortunately, even this relatively small piece of land is on the way out. It has been bought by a property developer and they intend to build high class villas on it, so this photograph would be recording this lovely scene for posterity. Unfotunately the future generations won’t have time to just go out in the desert and enjoy a scene like this, not the solitude it offers.
Absence of parks in Bahrain
True Chris. The only places available which might (with a huge truck of salt) resemble the parks you’re talking about are the Salmaniya Garden, Water Garden and Andalus Garden. i have no idea if any of them is still running. I’ve read in one paper a few days ago that the Manama muni is asking for budget to renovate the water garden, so I assume that it’s not usable. Andalus and Salmaniya I remember from childhood and haven’t gone back to since.
I would be nice – actually very necessary – to DRAG this country into the modern age where leasure places are required so that people can just walk and unwind. Once they do that they will be better productive people both at home and work.
We need proper parks – and no, not of the segregated variety. We need squares without having to suffer any harassment from roving pubescent males nor bearded folk. We need places we can just walk or trek. And we need some beaches! It is ludicrous that an island does not have any public beaches for people to enjoy themselves at.
Most of all we need common sense! We need to NOT throw our rubbish all over the place and destroy even the small disperate places that people can enjoy. We need to understand that we have to be courteous to other people using the facilities. And we need to understand that if we are using a facility, then we don’t automatically own it because we used it for a couple of times.
It was good that I noted that they opened a 1km walking path in Sanad the other day, we need more of those all over the island.
Desert Bloom
🙂
Desert Bloom
What a same…as you know most natural green area have been romeved in order to get artificial grass planted instead. I miss the way Dubai looked like when I was growing up..
Denver is where I went to school, the cold, snow, sking and the amazing natural scenes is what I loved about the city and state.
Desert Bloom
Yes, i agree with you Mahmoud 100% re the lack of open spaces here but there are some if you look…I live very near Dilmun Avenue and within 5 minutes’ walk there are Andalus gardens 9the retored one), Andalus gardens (the unrestored one), another small park behind that german kitchen shop. But overall, they are pretty appalling.
I went for a very long walk in the desert yesterday and wherever i walked there was rubbish -in the UK, we had a campaign in the 60’s (and still going) called ‘keep britain beautiful’ or simiar and it was an encouragement to clear up your crap and nbot throw it out of the car window.
Why can’t the King/PM/CP back something like that — that WOULD e a useful initiative.
The Johnster
Re: Desert Bloom
We have the same scheme, and even fines for anyone throwing/leaving rubbish improperly, but those fines as with hundreds of other laws are never applied. I have personally seen traffic cops for instance turn around when they see a “nice numbered” car break the law so that they don’t “get involve” or report it.
The public just don’t care it seems… “there is always someone who will come and clean up after us so why should we bother” syndrome is so entrenched here that it is difficult to dislodge without the government equally applying laws and fines across the board.
Just look closer at the photograph: you’ll see building waste, styroform fruit boxes and various other rubbish lying around… this is an area that is on a really busy area (by the Saar roundabout) and several street cleaners, municipality officials and people walk and drive by throughout the day.