July 2022

It’s time to look at the same month last year in twenty images for my Calendar series. It was spent mostly in Piran in Slovenia by the sea with a hop to Ljubljana for a couple of birthdays. Not only my father celebrated his, but also one of my mother’s cousins turned 70 and the

May 2022

Last May was an easy-to-file-away month. It started with one-day visitors on Day 1 but then it got really empty really quick, until Day 31 when I met Flavia for the last time, so far. So I had all the time in the world to observe poppies in the greens turn to browns and reds.

Thursday Doors 16/2/23: Early spring in Rome

This week I give you spring sights and not as many but at least fresh doors from this weekend in Monteverde, a residential district in western Rome. This Sunday we went to Rome for lunch to celebrate a couple of family birthdays. As soon as we arrived and bestia greeted everybody (so happy to finally

Thursday Doors 26/1/23: More Piran doors

I had a hunch that there must be heaps of doors left from Piran on the Slovenian coast, where my parents are and where I spent last summer. This is correct. These are all from June. I had several Thursday Doors posts from Piran this summer and yet failed to show all the doors. If

July 2021

Before July runs away from us, here is how this month went by last year in twenty images. I’m not pleased with my levels of creativity here in Slovenia at all. I’ve needed three weeks to come up with this post, July for my Calendar 2021. Mostly it’s because my body is using all the

Last photo of May

I took my camera on the dog walk specifically with the purpose of taking photos of this rose bush, and as I approached it I realised it was the late afternoon on the last of May. And two days later I was already in Piran, Slovenia, where I will stay for a while. I hope

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

Pic and a Word #300: Studio City

Here is a poem with more than one pic from my city of origin where ugly things are happening. But it looks really lovely. Studio City After 30 years my favourite program on national TV Slovenia, a rare one that still gives a damn and is still worth a damn, is losing funds, collaborators, hope

Friendly Friday rule of thirds

My first reaction was to rebel. Then I wished to obey and make my photos really nail the rule of thirds. And then I thought: But why? These are the first three photos that I chose for this post. Then the obedience phase set it. Here is a rose as taken + cropped horizontally +

Quotation day

Today is a good day to look through the drafts saved in my six blogs (five of them closed) and rescue this family of quotations that have gathered there especially with a post like this in mind. Many of these sayings were posted by you first. And since one mentions a rose, I include several