CFFC: Future nostalgic

Isn’t this a brilliant theme? I had one photo in mind immediately and was sure to gather many others. And then…

Cee’s post is so cute and I was in such good spirits when I started to look. The first photo I searched out deliberately. It was of a poster we spotted in Padua this September. “Future Vintage Festival”, it said. Just brilliant, thought I then and think it still, isn’t this what we all are? Future vintage.

The next photo that I found almost teared me up. It was taken only 12 years ago and I look like another person. Alas, the other person in the photo forbade me to post it.

I thought some more and quickly realised: Why look back at all? It’s the present when we are the youngest and the thinnest (well… I speak for myself) that we will ever be. The world is at its serenest, the seas are at their lowest, the weather is at its calmest. Let’s be nostalgic for our present.

With this in mind I had a look at the last batch of photos taken one week ago and knew these were the ones I wished to post. The ground here is practically level with the sea if not below it. This means it will be the first to go.

Before I left home one day, I saw a feather in front of our garden gate, as if it were a present. I returned for my camera and when I opened the gate to take a photo, the gust of my action blew it away. I caught it but the symbolism lingered.

On Thursday the final sad addition to this post arrived. My friend Vera with whom I had pizza this summer as pictured, passed away due to lung cancer. Keep an eye on us, Vera.

The future is now, present is past, and nostalgia is a happy memory.

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  September in Padua. Smile is back.

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  Thank you, bird.

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  One duck and one nutria.

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  I love these natural ornaments.

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  Or these. Such fun.

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  Eucalyptus drying the soil.

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  The canal, southern view.

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  The canal flowing into Lake Burano. The sea is waiting just behind the green horizon.

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  I created a bit of exodus.

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  Zero zoom since I don’t have any. These two flamingos were not feeling threatened.

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  Vera, happy with my selection of Tia’s Pizza in Ljubljana and full of energy. I thought she was winning.

For Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Future nostalgic

This day in my blogging history

• 2014: Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research. —Carl Gustav Jung

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  2015: Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. —H. L. Mencken

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  2016: Ljubljana of my life

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  2017: One of those monster posts with destinations in every direction

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  2019: A collection of creepies, such as these two from Sacro Bosco in Bomarzo

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  2020: More Thursday Doors and cats from Farnese

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