February 2022

This post has three parts: a funny re-enactment attempt, a song, and twenty photos from last February for my Calendar series.

First, you saw it last year already but I just have to repost this experiment. We had an online carnival last year and bestia had to be the seal.

Found online.

Done from memory (only found the above photo later). I released him soon after.

It’s been a while since I last gave you a song. This one is in Slovenian. She is singing “it’s-all -the-same-all-the-time.” (If the song refuses to play here, watch it on YouTube.)

As you will see in the photos, it really is, all the same. The question is: if beauty is all there is, is it still beautiful?

Even you know it by now, what I see around me daily: bestia, donkey, one field, another field, the town on the hill, blue sky. If the time is right, rosemary and almond trees in bloom. Last year the blossoming was extra rich.

This year spring is a week behind compared to last year (no matter that the first poppy was spotted three months earlier than usually). Only the top branches of this tree have some blossoms, for now. It’s been raining today. I haven’t seen such blue sky in days.

But there is also an airplane going to the moon (no, just missed it). And four photos from another daytrip to Rome. And some faraway piglets. And a personal cloud.

I will always aspire to find something new in the familiar, no matter how hard it is getting. Ten years will do that to you.

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  Why such a long tail?

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  Captain, you missed the moon.

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  Rome’s colours in a photo.

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  More spring in Rome. If the devil is six…

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  Cross and olive.

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  Rome’s trash collectors.

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  Back home. Field one.

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  Field two.

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  A favourite view. It is pretty but I have so many such photos. Similar but not the same.

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  Rose, Mary.

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  Donkey neighbour had new piglets. They didn’t last long.

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  This is how it began, on February 16th. This year it has even less blossoms today, a week later.

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  And this is how it was on February 23rd.

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  Rome bound.

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  Not in the photo but the tree was buzzing with bees.

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  So cheerful.

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  Personal cloud.

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  Community supermarket, for when we don’t go to the lagoon.

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  Capalbio on the hill.

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  Another blooming tree.

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Previous months of 2022:

• January

February in previous years:

• 2016
• 2017
• 2018
• 2019
• 2020
• 2021

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