WEATHERGODS WHERE ARE YOU?

Although I am awfully thankful for yesterday's weather, it was a big surprise to have low temperature and an overcast sky today.
Of course it did not stop me to go for a walk in the park. It is not really a park but it has a large pond. There I found the many coots that every minute started to fight and chase each other. They have large feet and I felt distraught seeing them putting their legs on the breast of their opponents. Or trying to hold them under the surface for what exactly? After the skirmish they swam friendly again till one of them started again. I took pictures! Not an healthy view.
Then I walked to another pond where I found the swan couple. They ate from the undeep bottom and some grass. On the first monday of the month the sirens have a try out and when that started today I noticed that the swans stopped eating and moved to the middle of the water. Their interpretation of that siren sound made them cautious.
I can easily imagine their fright. I was born in January 1945 and the fights above the provinces of Utrecht and Gelderland (I was born in Nijkerk) were vehement, oh the sound of sirens, that terrible sound of sirens.

My haiku:

Is it a mad play
Or a wonderful ballet
I do not applaud

And the proverb:

When war begins, the devil makes hell bigger.

Latin writer Vegetius' words: Si vis pacem, para bellum (If you want peace prepare for war) were changed in the 19th and beginnings of 20th century by pacifists like early french socialist Enfantin to: Si vis pacem para pacem (If you want peace prepare for peace).