Thursday Doors 7/3/24: Castelnuovo di Porto, again

We returned to the town of the LINA bistro one month ago and here are some fresh door photos. This town is 40 km north of Rome, if you’re ever in the neighbourhood. The castle above the square with LINA had a Serial Killer exhibition for some reason. I climbed the stairs – for the

Thursday Doors 8/2/24: Draguć 2.

Let’s stroll along main street in Draguć, a town in inland Istria, on a calm and cloudy Easter day. Whenever I see the name of this town, I’m reminded of the other Slovenian basketball player Goran Dragić (who played best for the Miami Heat), whose career will conclude with a star-studded event in Ljubljana this

Thursday Doors 2/11/23: Rovinj 2.

Ole, oleeeeee! How are you doing? If you’re in Texas, probably celebrating your sports. If not, let’s celebrate doors. But yes, Texas Rangers win the World Series (baseball, is it?), while in basketball Luka and the Dallas Mavericks are still undefeated with four victories, the first three more beautiful than the last. I mean, please,

Happy birthday to me

Here is an overview of past birthdays since today is one such. Yes, it happened: in the early hours of today I got the best present that no money could buy. In the first half Luka Dončić scored 27 points, the same as all of the Suns combined. It only got worse (for the latter).

Just flowers

My favourite kind of flowers are those that are still growing. All these were growing last May here in southern Tuscany. Okay, the Ukraine had to win the Eurovision Song Contest. And now I’m so extremely interested in seeing whether the league and the system will let Luka and the Mavs win tonight and eliminate

Friendly Friday leading cat lines

This post is really an excuse to show Sarah the cats around my home last May. Hopefully certain lines that lead to cats will be noticeable. Whatever you do, never learn photography from me. I promised Friendly Friday Sarah to do my best in finding leading lines in my photos, but then I got distracted

Bottlebrush progression

May is the month when bottlebrush (Callistemon) starts to bloom around here in Tuscany and one bush is conveniently placed in a garden just behind our home. This is how it went last May. And if you are impatiently waiting to flower, think about what Denise Riley wrote about it in the essay “Lyric Shame”

For Alenka and all Taurus people

Since I am a Taurus myself, with my birthday coming up in two weeks, I seem to get along with others like me the most. Today celebrates my first internet friend who I have met in person, and not just once. What are we like, if you didn’t know? Down to earth, outspoken, determined (some

Day 28 & Thursday Doors poem

Because it’s Thursday, because my friend asks me what doors mean to me, and because we are to shape up our poem today – the shape can be only one. Prompt 28: “Write a concrete poem. In brief, a concrete poem is one in which the lines are shaped in a way that mimics the

Day 22 & CFFC: Water

Seven rivers from here and there and some words as long as they still flow. Prompt 22: “In honor of today’s being the 22nd day of Na/GloPoWriMo 2022, I’d like to challenge you to write a poem that uses repetition. You can repeat a sound, a word, a phrase, or an image, or any combination of