This is the #walnut #tree in the #orchard at my grandparents’ home. Everything is closed today on January 1st in #Moinesti, so I took a walk to the edge of town to visit the place I called home until I was seven. When I was a child, we had fruits and nuts from the orchard, and vegetables from the garden. There were raspberry bushes and grape vines, and chickens, a rooster and a pig. Some of my favorite memories are in the garden or the orchard or helping my grandparents to make wine, cure meats, pickle vegetables, or crush the shells of the walnuts that fell from this tree. After my grandfather passed away 22 years ago, there was too much work for my grandmother to carry on by herself. She soon moved to a small apartment in the town’s center. This walnut tree still makes walnuts every fall, but a lot of the other trees no longer fruit. The rest of the garden and the cellar has been empty for years. In the winter it looked especially barren. The place was still full of my beautiful childhood #memories though. @dianazeynebalhindawi for @burndiary #romania