Thursday Doors + CFFC: Door gifts + Lendava Castle

Every door is a gift, every gift is a door, and through its mouth we walk.

Today is a rare occasion that my door post most happily answers to two challenges: Dan is our usual Thursday Doors host, whereas Cee, having fun connecting to other challenges, has chosen Thursday Doors to play with this week.

This is such a great opportunity for bloggers to find a challenge just made for them, which is how I felt when I first saw that there were some people who wished to see my doors. The year was 2015 and I have been a regular ever since.

How I perceive doors as books and books as doors.
“The stories of our lives” by Tracy Lundgren.

Before I show you my doors and door gifts, a note on a technicality that clearly still hasn’t been fixed: If you experience annoying throwbacks into my gallery when you attempt to write a comment, DO NOT DESPAIR! The trick is to refresh the page just before you start to write your comment and the problem will be no more. Thank you for persevering.

There are two galleries in this post. The first is made of door gifts – photos of doors that my family and friends sometimes gift to me and make me happy.

• One door is by Crystal who recently braved the coldest cold in Boston (and went skiing!),
• five from Slovenia are by my father who sent them to me back in October but nothing is ever lost on my blog,
• the last balcony door and a barking bestia come from the Azores by way of Verne who posts wonderful photos and stories from his family travels on their blog Jules Verne Times Two (now three).

Thank you most kindly!

Zero Park Street, Boston. By Crystal Trulove.

Church of the Holy Spirit, Stara gora. By dad.

Abandoned school in Stara gora near Sv. Jurij ob Ščavnici. By dad.

The school is still looking good but also dad takes good pictures.

Church of the Ascension in Bogojina, designed by Jože Plečnik who was born 150 years ago.

Too bad for the notices but look at this door! Must be wood but it looks like leather! Both by dad.

Barking dog at Velas, São Jorge, Azores, Portugal (PPL3-Altered). By Verne at julesvernex2.com.

For the second gallery we stay in Slovenia, in Prekmurje, the Pannonian region of the “leather” door above. I was there in 2019 and have been posting art from in and around the Lendava Castle in my last three posts for Marsha’s Photographing Public Art Challenge (PPAC), including the Hundertwasser exhibition. As it often happens, I left out all the doors. Here they are now.

As you can see in the featured photo, Lendava was a candidate for the title European Capital of Culture 2025. This is bilingual territory, that’s why on the poster the first “a” in its name is blue. Hungary is just around the corner and in Hungarian it is called Lendva.

Just now I had a look to see if Lendava managed to win the title, and the answer is no. Interestingly, two other cities joined by the border – one of them in Slovenia – became European Capitals of Culture 2025, but they could not be further from Lendava. They are Gorizia in Italy and Nova Gorica in Slovenia, on the other side of our tiny but mighty cultural country.

No medieval castle doors here.

Let’s follow this man.

The interior keeps reminding you that this is a castle.

The real age of this door is a question.

Certainly pretty. (I mean, the door too.)

A saint I can’t help you with and another lovely frame.

Just a door and the painting K. liked on Friday.

The door is hiding another unknown fellow.

The light fixture is more medieval than the door.

He smiles and the door smiles with him.

For Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan at No Facilities

and for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Thursday Doors

This day in my blogging history

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  2016: Right in the cat? A rant on the ugliest object.

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  2016: I was upset at The Wolf from Wall Street.

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  2017: Who’s the real monster?

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  2019: Poesia:

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  If
  words are
  all
  we
  have,
  then
  everything
  is
  poetry.

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  Especially vertically.

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