Lens-Artists PC: Happy end for odds

Here are some photos with words whose time to shine has finally arrived.

I like to post whatever I feel like and have been known to smuggle all sorts of photos into all sorts of challenges, so that now when Tina asks us to post photos that have been itching on the bench to be let out to play the longest, I wasn’t quite sure what to do. And then I did just that.

Many of the photos that have been patiently waiting feature words so I searched out more like them, taken when a city spoke to me in other ways, not by writings on the wall (even though a couple of such examples are included as well). Most are first-timers, only a few of these have already been posted on my first blog but it’s been eight years since.

Today we start in Slovenia but soon pass into Tuscany and Rome. Additional info and translations are provided in the captions. No matter what the last photo says, always welcome back.

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  Veggie burger for 9.50 Eur. Jack & Joe, Maribor. Well, I laughed.

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  A hairdresser in Ljubljana. I laughed because I hate the chitchat. Didn’t enter though.

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  Province can also be a bad word, as in hillbilly. Seen in Koper on the coast of Slovenia.

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  Also in Koper. Well, I’m sure tulips in Holland are nice, but how about Slovenia since this is where we are?

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  The last from Koper. Your city has been ducked.

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  Metelkova city and one of its special gates. The sign has been nicked from an old parking lot (when we still had Slovenian Tolars as the currency).

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  On the road in Slovenia. We ate here years ago. Slap means waterfall in Slovenian. Off to Italy now.

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  I took this one upon moving here in 2013 and haven’t posted it yet. It reminded me of the old Ljubljana Radio Television logo, for which my dad used to work.

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  The nice view from a Capalbio shop.

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  Maremma maiala, the Maremma boar. Maremma is our historical region with no fixed borders where boar roam. On sale in Pitigliano.

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  Music is our life. The sign above says that in Pitigliano there are 300 musical instruments from all over the world. The sign below is inviting musicians to come and play together.

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  In 2014 these calendars sold in Rome: the Mussolini story, a saint, pretty ladies, pretty priests, Roman holidays.

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  A sad reminder of the recent Mexican soccer tragedy. For you a game, for us the life. Who touches FF Roma, dies. Taken in 2017 in Monteverde, Rome.

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  In Sovana you have to eat with your hands and take your time.

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  Taken in 2016 but only in the recent Get Back series I learned who Alan Parsons first was before he did his Eye in the Sky.

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  The cage of the dead parrot. Clearly a legend possibly worth digging into. Porto Ercole.

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  By now even this Talamone pier wall has forgotten that this sign forbids fishing.

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  This beach find was captured in 2017 since I liked the hearts but only for last Christmas we were gifted a bottle and I got to taste it. It’s really good.

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  My unicorn in Tuscania in 2013. It’s REALLY hard to get him anywhere now.

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  Congratulations, says Rome. Find something to celebrate today.

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  Spotted in Porto Ercole. Yes you. You are always welcome.

For Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, hosted by Tina at Travels and Trifles: Odds and Ends

This day in my blogging history

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  2015: Google DMT, she said

• 2015: “You’re fancy to me”, by Manouche. Now dance!

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  2017: Sunset cocktail

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  2019: Father’s friend – who looks exactly like Mel Brooks – is saying: “I had one just like this one.” Citroën 2CV.

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