December 2017

Last month of the year means my last Calendar 2017 post, until I select the top 12, one from each month.  Here are twenty photos from last December. One half of it I spent at home in the south of Tuscany and the other half …

Pic and a Word #164: Sunk to new heights

While spying on the spies and evading landing spaces, here is Nietzsche’s take on heights with a little bonus from me.  “Before my highest mountain I stand, and before my longest wandering: to that end I must first go down deeper than ever I descended: …

Pic and a Word #161: Remember to die

Live and let die, and then remember. Let’s go all poetic today. Do you know how you sometimes can’t tell exactly what a Latin proverb means? Is memento mori remember the dead or remember to die? In any case, I see it as the imperative …

Lens-Artists PC & Pic and a Word 158: Up on a Giant

I never combine challenges but this week they made me do it. Something big for Lens-Artists and giant for Pic and a Word coming up. I’m going to include: a quotation (instead of my usual Pic and a Word poem) and thank Patrick for it, …

Lens-Artists PC: Ljubljana, newyorked

I’ve just returned from two days in this October city. It was Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, not New York, but here is a gallery of photos that could also be from there. If you believe it. I only spent two full days in my …

Pic and a Word #151: Grave details

This summer, for no particular reason, I found myself graveyard-hopping. It must be because cemeteries are full of poetic details. Or “little touches of humanity that you find”, according to Emma Cownie. Isn’t that the loveliest way to put it? Thank you! All these were …

Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Cool cooling

For the second week of the new Lens-Artists Photo Challenge, Leya is asking for something to cool us. As long as our friends in the southern hemisphere won’t get too cold. 😉 First a quotation that made my mind reel. The work you do while …

Pic and a Word #145: Peaks

Here are some of the last views of Slovenia before you leave it for Italy. I have just driven from the other direction and will spend the summer here. I wonder how many – if any – I will climb. I’ve got the shoes with …

Twelve For Snow

Today let’s celebrate The Snow Melts Somewhere for she has the most to do with the fact that I’m still around and blogging. Since my favourite and most supportive blogger (and how nice it is when the two are not inter-dependent) celebrated a nice round …

Photography as a keyhole

Photography is certainly a good tool, for processing and otherwise. It surely helps if you notice as if tomorrow you won’t be able to notice any more. For the day will come. Today’s musing is brought to you by three quotations on photography which I’ve …

Three deep thoughts

Deep as the sea, deep as the mind. Thank you to Leya from To See a World in a Grain of Sand… for thinking of me on Day 1 of her 3 Day Quote Challenge. Her first is by Gandhi and includes this sentence: We need …

Day 30: The month of firsts

You never forget your first. —May Not yet, May 1st begins in less than half an hour, but let’s have a look at the last poetry challenge for this month: Challenge 30: “I’d like you to take your cue from Borges, and write a poem …

Day 29: Sylvain Plathless

Today, with only one day of this April poetry madness left, somebody will regret coming up with this challenge. Challenge 29: “Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem based on the Plath Poetry Project’s calendar. Simply pick a poem from the calendar, and …

Day 28: April 2017 postcards

This post is part of my Calendar 2017 with twelve photos from last April. Each photo is accompanied by a little something. Let’s not call it either poetry or prose but merely words. For the curious, the three previous Calendar 2017 months are assembled here. …

Day 23 & WPC: Prolific yellow and green

Today a cento made of song lyrics and a war between green and yellow in images. Challenge 23: “Today, we challenge you to honor this idea with a poem based in sound. The poem, for example, could incorporate overheard language. Perhaps it could incorporate a …

Day 14: Follow your dreams

Today, a bit of anniversary and dream interpretation.   A good-enough novel violently written now is better than a perfect novel meticulously written never. —Elizabeth Gilbert (quotation reblogged from raynotbradbury) That’s why I’m writing mine, on the inside, by living, for the fifth year. I arrived in …

Day 11: The future in a cemetery

Challenge 11: “A poem that addresses the future.” Dressing the future My future? That’s an easy one. I die. We all die. It’s so certain that there’s no need for Future or Future Perfect Tense. I die. First, the perfect present continues – “I have been …

Day nine: Big and small

Enjoy the little things in life because one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things. —Kurt Vonnegut Challenge 9: “We challenge you today to write a poem in which something big and something small come together.” Little big things You little …

Me, Janis and Bobby

A memory rolled to my Facebook today from two years ago. It was a quotation by Janis Joplin for her 73rd birthday. This means today she would turn 75. Never compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. —Janis Joplin I don’t know who bought it …