"Happy anniversary, village!" / Novopodikovo /

___ The 250th anniversary will be celebrated this year by the #Novopodikovo village, which hid from the benefits of civilization in the wilderness 8 km behind #Ust-Khmelevka, about which I wrote my previous post https://clck.ru/UH2C9
___ I have not met local residents, of whom there are hardly more than a hundred. I was not able to talk about the preparation for the celebration of the round date of the village, about how many administrative buildings and places of cultural recreation have been renovated and erected, what production facilities are open, how many people who want to live in an ecologically clean environment of the townspeople have recently moved to permanent residence.
___ Yes, and I doubt that they will celebrate the village's birthday here. The owners of modern summer cottages, hidden behind two-meter high-quality fences, most likely have not even heard of the anniversary. And old-timers are not used to celebrating round dates. Unless they will drink moonshine, but they will sing songs.
Is this village dying? I don’t know ... As for me, she didn’t live.
___ Maybe that's why the blurred clay road of some blood-red color looks so symbolic here ?! It reminded me of a bloodlet slowly leaving a mortal body ...