Complete Calendar 2017

In the spirit of drawing things to a close on this blog, here is the final selection of images for my Calendar 2017. Okay, two. As you could see and take a peek at my new blog yesterday, with the new year this one is about …

October 2017

Before this month is done, here is last year’s October in twenty images. Greetings from Rome where we had a bit of Armageddon last night, with a hail storm, flash floods and general chaos. Luckily we stayed home and didn’t know about any of that, …

Lens-Artists PC: Small gifts from the streets

Small is relative, but since not much is small about me, I collected twenty small surprises that Roman streets gifted me this past weekend. They may be small in size, grandiosity or their importance on the scale of things, but each of these scenes has …

September 2017

It’s September and I’ve got a couple of things to discuss: 1. What photo is deemed photo worthy? 2. Why suffer if you can enjoy it?  “It’s interesting what is considered photo worthy, especially in terms of being posted online.” This was a comment under …

Lens-Artists PC: Don’t fence me in

Leya wrote “Fences” in the title of her challenge, which is not to say that the singular form would have prevented me from posting twenty of them, as is my norm. But first, I was amazed to discover – only now, as it sometimes happens – …

Thursday Doors, 6/9/18: Ljubljana Savc

Another Thursday Doors edition that is more about the experience than doors themselves. It takes place in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, where everybody comes lately. Savc is the term of endearment for Savsko naselje where certain rappers stem from, including my mother. Here are …

Lens-Artists PC: Time to relax, July 2017

Oh yes, it comes to those who wait: holidays! Here are some relaxing times from last July for my Calendar 2017. And for this week’s Lens-Artists photo challenge, where Amy asks us for photos of how we or somebody else relaxed. Last July I was …

Flowers for grandma

And one dog. And one cat. You would be closing in on 100. Happy birthday, Baca! What reminds me of you the most? Burda. Kiwi. Blackcurrant. Cottage cheese. Umag. Opera, especially Madame Butterfly. Love of Italy. Beautiful Vida, a poem in many languages. Your stories …

A red dog

Today a bit of non-fiction. Which means it really happened. A red dog The old man across the street needs a ride home. He was standing next to the primary school and waved down my car not knowing who I was. I pass his house …

Flash Mexi Movie reviews

This is the first film post on this blog. Just in case you were wondering why there was a Movie in my blog name. First, a story of how that came to be, which I believe I haven’t told yet: In the earlier days of …

March 2017

Before we sink too deep into March, here is last year’s in proverbial twelve pictures for my Calendar 2017 in the making. It was not spent far away from home, just as February wasn’t. (Whereas January was all over the place.) But I don’t need …