© Jürgen Sauer

"On the way back, a prior century seems to materialize out of the mists in the form of two men wearing flat caps and knee-high rubber boots who are harnessing two lean, sway-backed horses to warped log traces; the unenthusiastic beasts are about to pull some kind of ancient mower under the guidance of two enthusiastic dogs, but are delaying with grazing their eternal task."

— page 211, Into the Carpathians, Part 1
© Alan E. Sparks