Lens-Artists PC: Inspirational post

What inspires me most often? There are other things too, such as doors, but these photos wished to be together like this in this gallery. Who am I to say no?

Except our first dog – his photo is from 2007 when he was eight like bestia is now – all these are from the last two years, from Italy and Slovenia, as is my habit.

I’m still in Slovenia for a few days and it’s getting hotter and hotter. I fear to think of the heat that awaits me in Tuscany which is considerably more to the south than Slovenia. Heat is one thing that inspires me the least.

So let’s see: what has inspired me the most lately?

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  When a place off my destination list proves even grander than expected. Villa Lante, Bagnaia near Viterbo.

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  When a magnificent place is on my list and I only realise it after my visit. The church of San Bonaventura, Canale Monterano.

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  When I find something that is not on any list or map (it may be but I couldn’t find its name). Near Lake Bracciano.

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  When light is especially giving. Capalbio.

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  When wilderness is domesticated.

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  Even if opposing forces sometimes clash. Rome.

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  When walls speak louder than words. Pasolini in Monteverde, Rome.

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  When all kinds of art face the street. “Ljubljana” by Marija Strnad, 2021, displayed in Piran Library.

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  When an intervention is especially sweet. A modified (real) postbox in Piran.

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  When a walk is followed by a cake. Zvezda means star. Ljubljana.

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  When a certain dichotomy is sensed and a story demands to be written. Ljubljana.

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  When you know that there is a friend who has the same photo and had the same gelato. Anguillara Sabazia, Lake Bracciano. Flavia is posting again on her blog!

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  When the Presidents of Finland and Slovenia meet in Nordic Centre Planica and the Bench of Friendship is put up and I take this photo for my earliest blogging buddy Snow Melts Somewhere because only she can read this.

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  Even if the bench is not all that. It’s the thought that counts.

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  What else inspires me? My family, often. Sis’ birthday in July.

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  Amore, especially out of his comfort zone. On the chairlift in Planica, Slovenia.

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  Memories. Our first dog Žak in Ljubljana woods.

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  The present that is bestia on our terrace in Tuscany.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Patti at P. A. Moed: Your Inspiration

This day in my blogging history

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  2015: Mengeš Thursday Doors

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  2017: When I found Ljubljana a bit sick

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  2019: Old, new, borrowed, blue (compilation)

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  2019: August 2018 in 20 photos