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The Color of My Childhood
Growing up in the luscious green countryside of Bulgaria
There is a reason one of the colors on the Bulgarian flag is green. As a primarily agricultural country, green vistas are inescapable when traversing the small Balkan nation.
As someone who grew up in a small village, at the foothills of beautiful mountains, fields and forests of green dominated my childhood, especially my long summer vacations.
It’s the kind of green that makes you feel alive and oh so grateful to live on this one planet. I can smell the fresh air just by looking at these photos. Can you? :)
I had the kind of childhood that many don’t get today: no TV, no Internet, no smart phones or any other gadgets to hijack my time and attention. We barely even had toys.
What my friends and I had, though, was unlimited access to fields of green with views of mountains in the background and excess energy that had to be spent somehow, somewhere.
Why not, then, frolic in a green field full of wildflowers? All. Day. Long.
