Pic and a Word #150: Gr-attitude

After two months in my Slovenia I have only two words: thank you.

I know that this challenge is called Pic and a Word but as usually I’m exaggerating: many more words and pictures than one on how my gratitude feels and looks like. Words first.

Attitude = gratitude

My summer has been a fusion
like when my sister cooks:
just the right ingredients
added just in time.

It’s good to live this way:
with homes in many climates,
languages and landscapes,
every last one beautiful.

For all this I’m grateful:
for the beauty, the smiles,
the meals, the time,
the gifts and the love.

Not only is mobility
one of the meanings of life,
another truth is lurking
not entirely out of sight:

If you leave for a while
and then return on occasion,
it makes them happier to see you
on both sides of the equation.

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There were too many occasions and people to mention them all, here is just a selection of twenty phases and faces of my summer.

Just as I finally decide which photos to post, my other uncle comes on a visit and I have a good night at the cards. This summer is never-ending!

Yet, tomorrow I return. Thank you, all, for a marvellous summer! And now, if you don’t mind, I’ll move back home where the summer goes to last a bit longer.

Please find specific thanks in the captions.

ADD-IT: As I was about to click “Publish”, mother brought me a little package that was hanging on the door. Another friend, not pictured below, left for me a home-made cream to ease my foot pain. How thoughtful! Thank you, Mateja! ❤

Phase 1: This is how it started and how it will finish. Transport by uncle and Fusion.

My beautiful, giving and talented mother.

My caring father and his best friend in a casual conversation. They went on a walk every single morning.

Sister didn’t just cook, even though she did plenty of that (her winning salad is featured above), she took me around and took this photo. Botanical Garden in Ljubljana (with FREE entrance, except for the indoor jungle part). Photo: Klu

Various doctors didn’t just do their best to patch me up but a doctor’s visit provided this photo op near the house where mother grew up.

We went on a 12-hour trip and amore even agreed to a short climb. How sporty! (Photo: BM)

A stroll around Ljubljana, one of many, with my good friend Zedd, gelato, cake and Michael Jackson on the bus.

Another good friend Darja and her Scotsman travelled from the UK to Piran, an excellent gathering place.

And yet another: Mihela with her offspring who is the coolest child I’ve seen possibly ever. Thank you for the lovely breakfast!

She gifted us much of her precious time on two occasions. Some things never grow old. Hand in hand, Tili!

We had to be rescued after a futile search of the (wrong) address and then we had a lovely stroll with Alenka and Jože around their red-starred Velenje.

Never mind cards, he is the winner in the game of life. Looking great after a health scare. Cin cin, Marjan!

My generation: Three Graces together again. With two oldest friends (and Piran). Photo: Zedd

At the concert of Benč in Piran. I wish Duša good luck for her surgery next week.

At the lovely PicniConcert of Brina at the Ljubljana Castle. Listen to the tune below to get the idea.

My poet friend Aleš was nominated for the highest national poetry award and took me to the Celje Castle on the occasion.

These I gifted myself: jeans slippers and the book of poems by the greatest Slovenian modern poet Tomaž Šalamun, courtesy of antique fair in Piran. (On the right: watermelon blossom. Really.)

This bird (from Žužemberk cemetery) is in memory of all those gone. For no particular reason I visited many cemeteries this time.

I wish to thank myself for this cake. Really. I’ll post the recipe one day.

And finally, thanks to my friend Johnny for this photo which is now my Gravatar image (as some of you have noticed) and thank you for your patience and visits, dear bloggers. Now we will slowly go back to normal and I’ll visit back more again.

Let it be pics, words and a tune today. Thank you, Brina, for the wonderful PicniConcert! Here she is on another occasion:

In response to Patrick Jennings’ Pic and a Word Challenge #150: Gratitude