Pic and a Word #302: Progress

Today’s poem and three galleries are a direct result of a photo father posted on Facebook a few days ago. Everything changes, sometimes nightmarishly so.

But first, to start on a high note, the highlight of last night’s NBA All Stars game and it took place during a break. You give all your 22 years to stay cool, decide the first quarter (quietly) but let others take central stage (for now), let them overlook you, dismiss you, say you’re fat. And then this.

Michael Jordan & @luka7doncic 😱 #NBAAllStar #NBA75 pic.twitter.com/lroRmwN5BN

— NBA Spain (@NBAspain) February 21, 2022

Love someone like Jordan loves Luka. 77 & 23 =

And now, let’s have a look at what is happening to red buildings in Piran on the coast of Slovenia.

Chianti

Apparently 
chianti
is the colour non grata
in Piran.

I learn 
that authorities forbid it,
that it used to denote
an Italian living there.

If progress means 
to blame a colour
for all horrors caused by man,
I rather look through my glass
and say cin cin.

The first gallery is of the most famous case in point. At some point between January and August 2016, the oldest and most famous house in Piran, Benečanka or Casa Veneziana or The Venetian House on the Tartini Square turned from red to cream. Apparently they went for the “original” look.

I couldn’t remember if I had any photos of it when still red and was happy to see I do. Let’s have a look.

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  Just before New Year’s Eve 2015. It was cold but mom is the best model. Red house in centre.

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  Maritime Museum.

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  Even better: Both parents and bestia! July 2015.

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  The last photo I have of the red Venetian House. January 1st 2016.

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  What I saw upon return in August 2016.

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  It’s not that it’s not still pretty. But it isn’t red.

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  On a rainy summer day in 2017.

And now father shows us how another red house which I always admired, especially how its red combined with the greens, has gone through a makeover. Apparently the new owner was forbidden to use the original colour by authorities. Alert: Not for the faint-hearted.

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  So stylish, in 2015.

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  True, I see many similarly coloured buildings in Italy. Why is that bad?

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  And now this. Not only it’s orange…

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  They removed the pergola as well.

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  But who says all the greenery is gone? (Last three photos by dad B.M.)

While looking for the photos for this post, I found many other chianti coloured buildings in Piran. Are they all destined to change? All the photos below are from 2015, except the most vivid red is from 2017. Who knows if they are all still this colour, and for how long.

Note on colour: Chianti is my own descriptor (of course). Amore has just breezed by, took one look at the draft of this post and said: “Ah, yes, rosso pompeiano.” Pompeii red! 😮 Here is a googling subject for those who wish to know more. I did just a quick search and it says that this Pompeii red was indeed originally yellow…

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  They will have to fix this one too sooner or later.

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  This one by the main road was on sale. Father can take a photo how it looks now if it was bought.

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  Many red remains.

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  Another one I often pass and always admire.

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  A look up. The colour is clearly going. For how much longer?

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  This happens when they repaint a red house. Why was it allowed in this case? (Mom is the best model II.)

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  What will happen to this pretty corner?

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  The cat wants to know.

In response to Patrick Jennings’ Pic and a Word Challenge #302: Progress

This day in my blogging history

For the first time I managed to misfile two posts. The last two should be included on two earlier days this month. Ah well. Nobody needs to know.

• 2015: A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. — Maya Angelou

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  2015: Know your Pinocchio: Bilingual reading

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  2019: Thursday Doors from Orvieto with the special guest star: Indiana Joe and Banana Jones

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  2020: Thursday Doors from Ljubljana

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  February 11 2021: Thursday Doors from Viterbo 3.

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  February 18 2021: Thursday Doors from Viterbo 4.

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