Thursday Doors, 29/3/18: Women’s Doors 3

Today is the last door-dedicating Thursday. Twenty more women will be honoured for making my days that much better.

A reminder: so far we had two Thursdays of Women’s Doors and one all-male Thursday. With today this silly division is over and we can all rejoice together again.

In any case, it has given me great pleasure to call out some of the people who deserve it. There are many more of you who I follow and who follow my blog and I wish to thank you all.

It also warms my heart to see that some of you click on the links provided under the gallery and check out some of the names that you might not know yet. This is another reason why I do this.

If your blog is listed below, it means that one of the following doors is just for you. See if you can find it. You’ll need to read too though.

This Prague church with three doors, designed by Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik, is for one of the first bloggers who visited my first blog four years ago when I started it. We share Mittel-European origins and in her photos I often find all that is missing in Italy. Such as order.

She hops between California and Greece, which is not a bad way to live at all. And we all profit. This shop “The tastes of the Mediterranean” from my hometown reminded me of Greece immediately. And Ljubljana is not even by the sea but in the center of Slovenia.

This is another scene from Ljubljana in the golden hour. If we plan well, we can be there together one day, if you ever return to Slovenia after doing Portugal, Barcelona and more. Besides your doors I also like happy smiling photos of you on Facebook.

This is Ljubljana too, by the river, and I wish to show this door to a woman who also shows us the lives and smiles of her family and the beautiful landscapes around her. She says that her favourite place is as hard to single out as her favourite child.

I have a feeling that she would also appreciate a maritime scene on a door in the middle of nowhere, but it would be even better if there were shells on it since she collects them. She brings us gorgeous doors from places with no other Thursday Doors contributor. Extra special thanks for that! (Piran, Slovenia)

Oh, she loves the sea too. So much so that for her the land must be what for the rest is the sea: a rarity. I wonder if she’ll ever find herself in the corner of the Adriatic where Piran awaits and this door with the view.

This is the home of a Slovenian painter in Piran, and it shows. It is for another sea- and bike-loving artist who has her own Tarot garden photo series. Find it among the links below the gallery.

The pyramid door! It is for a lovely hiker and traveller who has just returned from Asia but had to hop to New Orleans for a bit where she found a pyramid at a cemetery. In Rome there is a bigger one. 🙂 (Non-Catholic Cemetery)

This extraordinary find at the Talamone cemetery is for a woman who lives in New Orleans and gives good poems, book suggestions and viewing recommendations. (Thank your for The Fall!) With some imagination this could be NOLA too…

This bearded iris (I hope!) below the door is for a woman who has endured plenty in her life and now lives in peace and love and is busy running several challenges on her blog. It seems that taking flower photos is what she enjoys the most. Especially of bearded iris. 😉 (Vignoni Alto)

This scene from the Torri Abbey is for our woman in (almost) Hollywood since these are director’s chairs! I hope her architectural eye approves of the arch too.

Let’s stroll along a street in Rome now. Look at this light! And I think this blogger wouldn’t mind polenta and baccalà either. Her blog’s name says that she loves everything Italian and she often gives good ideas for where to go.

Another Rome street scene is for a woman who I thought was a bartender (thanks, Dan!) but apparently isn’t. She likes to take cheerful photos and takes us to cheerful places but when I saw this photo I thought of her. I bet she could write a poem around it.

This is a door from right here, Capalbio on the hill, in the special light. It is for another Taurus who knows all about light and cameras. She also knows birds, that’s why she would love the flamingos and ibises around here.

I got this door with the heart and wood ready for her before she told me today that she was not in her Australia but rather in Finland. Not much of a difference: when winter arrives in the first, in the second it will continue to linger. 😀 (Caldana)

Wood is good but wi-fi is better. She knows exactly how bad internet access can be in Italy. After all, she is almost Italian. Indeed it seems as if the Etruscans were still running it. I know what I’m saying: this was taken right here.

But the best is when there is no wi-fi and one needs to talk, as this sign is Siena says. This reminded me of a recent post by this versatile and handy blogger saying that one is not the loneliest number. You, me and the cell is lonelier.

I know she loves doors and pups, so here they are all in one. Once she wrote a lovely post for her ageing dog. (Orbetello)

Her poetic miniatures bring serenity into my life, that’s why I wish to share my serene moment with her. It says “tobacco” but I wasn’t smoking neither sipping coffee, just the pup was there with me.

And finally, the 20th door, from Rome, goes to a writer who recently told me that she would prefer not be one if she could choose. And that she loved this door. Here’s to all we cannot choose but be.

Here are links to a favourite post on all these twenty women’s blogs and websites:

• Ada at my world of melancholly
• Angela at Shoot ‘N Go
• Cee at Cee’s Photography
• Charlotte at Zouxzoux
• Cheryl at Dreaming Reality
• Crystal at Conscious Engagement
• Deborah at Circadianreflections Blog
• Denny at Thoughts Of An E’ville Woman
• Donna at Note to Traveler
• Francesca at ALMOST ITALIAN
• Helen Bushe at PHOTOPHILE
• Ishita at Italophilia
• Jan at JT Twissel
• Jolene at SoMuchToTellYou
• Karen Merritt
• Lisa Dorenfest at One Ocean At A Time
• Maggie at What Rhymes with Stanza?
• Priscilla at scillagrace
• spanishwoods
• Vicky at Travels in the Middle East and beyond

For Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors challenge.