A beautiful winter on Tara Mountain

In a white fur coat and white lace dress, Mrs. Winter knocked on my door. She hugged me tightly with her icy hands and greeted me with cold breath.
Winter did not come alone this time. She brought her faithful friends, wind and snow clouds with her. Clouds like white ships sail through the sky and spill snow dust on us. Everything is white and glittery. Gentle white flakes flickering in the air like dazzling stars. They fall on rooftops, cover the streets and knit silver lace on the windows of children's rooms. The tired and frosted tree branches are no longer bare. Winter dressed them in white dresses with long lace sleeves and embellished with glittering pearls. The roofs of the houses, dotted with snow and ice, proudly display their white hats. Frost painted crystal paintings on the windows and hung glass panes under the eaves. Frozen sparrows sit in their tiny nests of folded wings and tremble in the cool air. No cheerful tweet is heard. Only the whine of the wind can be heard performing its winter concert playing with snowflakes, and they, like ballerinas, dance until they gently fall on the yellow children's faces. Boys and girls, dressed in warm clothes, with a smile on their faces run across the snow, and he bursts at their feet.
I love it when winter arrives, even though it is cold and sharp frost is tapping my cheeks. When she arrives, the gray and gloomy image of late autumn disappears before my eyes. Everything around me becomes beautiful and clean and there is a strange peace everywhere.
Boske

Tara stories and legends:

About the girl and the knight

• One legend about Tara is related to a shepherd who guarded a herd of deer, and a knight on a winged horse that sprang from this river. Every spring, the cobancka sang a song on the shore calling for all the deer. From the beauty of her poem the river Tara would stand, and an unusual knight would emerge from it. With him, besides a winged horse, he always had a tavern with the magic drink he gave to the girl. From that drink, she was in love with him and blissfully calm.

• However, as soon as the shepherdess drank this potion, the knight would return back to the depths of Tara, and she would be sad and more singing. For many a spring the shepherdess stood on the banks of the Tara and sang, but one year, she could not stand it anymore, and decided to look for a knight by jumping into the river.

• The story goes that after the shepherdess jumped into the water to find a knight, he emerged and wandered freely into the clouds, from where he looked out at the river and sometimes flew over it. So, he remained elusive and elusive to the poor girl who sacrificed his life to find him. It is said that every spring the song of a girl and a knight are heard, which are called out separately, as abandoned deer stroll around Tara.

• If you go rafting on Tara in the spring, pay attention - maybe you will hear the legendary song. But beware, legend also says that anyone who hears mysterious, stunning, but also dangerous sounds in the canyon can be lost forever or suddenly smelled somewhere.

About Jerina

• Even the famous evil Jerina found herself in the legends that were told about Tara. Jerina built towers, buildings and bridges around Tara. But it did not succeed for her to finish the masonry successfully. The Tara River fell in love with the masons and carried them to their depths. Jerina had to give up any construction around the mighty and mysterious Tara she was not up to, and with whom she could not measure her strength.

• Tara also found her place in literature. In the novel "Lelejska gora" Mihailo Lalić writes extensively about Tara and its surroundings. Enchanted by it were Milan Dedinac and Aleksa Santic, as well as many other artists and tourists coming to our country.

About the twins on the coast of Tara

• On the Tara coast lived twins of incredible beauty. Tara would stop from their song as well as from the chubanka song. However, a new sound was heard from the other side of the coast - the trumpet. Radovan guarding the flock played from his trumpet, that is, the boria. The girls' voices and the playing of Radovan merged, and they gladly sang along to his mysterious melody.

• But one twin strict father married his neighbor. Radovan played in vain for several days. No one sang. Soon, however, the voices of twins could be heard that could not prevent them from joining Radovan in making music. Both fell in love with Radovan. Their music didn't last long. All three jumped into Tara. In her depths they could be together seamlessly.