Thursday Doors 1/12/22: Remains of 2021

“What technology would you be better off without, why?” Did WordPress just ask you the same question? 😮 As I opened a new post, there it was, this question to start things off. What next, WP? Will you write the ending for me too?

I will not think of technology, nor indeed about the Dallas Masochists because they are making them, us and all who watch them suffer so very much, and I’m sorry if I’ve made you watch them for Luka. Their game as a team is lost in translation. They lose unless he scores 32 points (and sometimes even if he scores more). Let’s hope it’s only early days (even though one quarter of the season is gone).

What I will do, in the time when photographers are coming up with their 2023 Calendars, is show you some doors from 2021 that didn’t make it into my monthly calendar posts. Each contains only twenty images but I always gather more than that. Here are some remains then.

And in two weeks I will show you some door favourites from this year, just as our hosts Dan Antion instructs. I better do what he says. He has just published the third book in his Dreamer’s Alliance trilogy.

Some of these doors you have seen before but all together like this they reflect my year 2021 pretty well.

The first photo below, none too noteworthy, is especially meaningful. It was March, I was starting to lose my mind after a long, uneventful and pandemic winter, when I noticed this door walking home for the shop, as if I’d never seen it before. I took it as a symbol of good things coming, and in time they did.

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  Notice that open little door below?

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  I like it how they concealed the door and made this whole beach shack part of nature.

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  A gate that I pass daily. Even pretty things lose meaning if repeated.

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  Another gate on our daily walk. Bestia knows the way.

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  In non-eventful times, every door is a winner.

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  This one is ours. A new growth spotted.

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  I returned with the camera when I spotted this scene. And wrote a poem. No door can go to waste.

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  This one is funny. See? There is nothing between the door and the shrubs. I could simply step in and help myself to more apricots.

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  Then one day in May I made the three-garden open door tour. Somewhere near Siena.

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  My birthday spurred on a nice daytrip with lunch in Pitigliano.

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  On the way we discovered this magnificent door near Sorano. Janua Coeli Monastery.

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  In June I visited this special artistic garden for the first time, Giardino Viaggio di Ritorno, with scrap art by Rodolfo Lacquaniti. Photo: Donna

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  Then it was time to hop to Slovenia again. One of Piran magic doors.

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  But nothing is as magical as having amore there with us. This year it was not to be.

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  The visit of my two friends from Oregon was well documented on my blog. This was in Santa Fiora.

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  When I went to Punta Ala and all I could find was a nearly dead marina.

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  A nearby wooden church.

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  Our train station in nice light for October.

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  When I went to do my Christmas shopping in Orbetello.

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  When amore gifted me a new fish-eye lens. The postbox on the left is the only community postbox for all 90+ units. That’s why I don’t like receiving post here. It gets crowded and soaked and things go missing.

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For Thursday Doors challenge hosted by Dan at No Facilities

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