May 2021

The selection was not easy, but here are twenty photos from last May for my Calendar. Frankly, I could easily post nothing but twenty photos of poppies, twenty of other flowers, twenty of animals, or twenty from my two day trips.

Here is a bit of everything then. May is possibly the prettiest month around here, especially if it isn’t too hot and the quarantine ends just before your birthday. We went on a day trip with a nice lunch to celebrate it, and it was wet but I saw something new!

And on the night before we went to the theatre! And the weekend after I went on a three-garden open-door day tour. So much excitement all of a sudden!

But that was then and this is now. Tonight the Eurovision Song Contest starts with the first semi-final which includes Slovenia, and we will see if it really can’t make the top ten to qualify for Saturday’s finals as everybody says.

And then I’ll have a few hours of sleep before Luka and the Mavs are on at 4 am against the Suns, and we will see if the Mavs really can’t beat the Suns in their desert as less and less people say.

My tip: find your excitement where you can.

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  Simple and simply stylish.

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  Mushroom forest.

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  Goats happy among the poppies. Look at this content face!

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  Or this one. Happy bestia.

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  A new growth of the kind I’d never seen before.

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  Rainbow from our garden.

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  And then suddenly, ta-taaaam, theatre! An undemanding benefit comedy in Grosseto, while bestia waited in the car.

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  On my birthday it was the first cappuccino in half a year. Bestia wants some of that too.

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  Murky but splendid. We found a new vantage point in Pitigliano where we had lunch.

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  In the Janua Coeli Monastery near Sorano we surprised a Sister playing with her drone as one does.

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  Sorano was our first-time visit. A huge walk-in fortress completely for free.

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  Back home. Look at those ears!

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  A new walking path discovered nearby but bestia protested over spiky seeds.

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  The view of Lake Burano from the path.

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  Then it was the open-door day. Villa Cetinale in Sovicille was the stop number one.

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  From the road I could see Siena in the distance.

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  The last stop was Villa di Radi in a former castle. Fancy!

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  Home is not as fancy but always available.

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  Even though sometimes I wish to be that bird.

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  Because I feel a little like these flowers.

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Previous months of 2021:

• January
• February
• March
• April

May in previous years:

• 2016
• 2017
• 2018
• 2019
• 2020

This day in my blogging history

• 2014: Memory believes before knowing remembers. —William Faulkner

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  2014: Conversation as of just now:

  – Mom walked for 15 km today.
  – But why?
  – There was a walk around Ljubljana.
  – But why?
  – There was a holiday.
  – But why?
  – A holiday of liberation from under the Italians.
  – But isn’t there a bus?

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  2014: Luigi, the donkey neighbour

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  2015: Here you are, mom. Now you can make an ikebana. Lucky me who was born close to you.

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  2015: More pieces of Pisa. Pesky dusk-and-dawn setting turned everything bluish for days.

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  2017: Reflecthings. Two beasts in one.

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  2018: Thursday Doors from Bežigrad, my Ljubljana hood

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  2020: Today I’m feeling like an organic nothing. Nič=niente=nada=zilch.

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  2020: Friendly Friday bird and bush