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 …

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 …

Lens-Artists PC: Happiness is a choice

Happiness is a choice. “Thought is like a little boat upon the sea,” and you are the storm. Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise. First, thank you to Norm of Thursday Doors fame for the featured photo and one more in today’s gallery. Amore showing …

November 2017

In a somehow typical fashion, I post last year’s November photos on the last day of this year’s. Just in time. My ex liked calling things he did “just in time”, but that meant watering the plants on the brink of dying. Sometimes I felt …

Pic and a Word #160: Contemplate this

Are these the End Times? Or has it only just begun? Be as it may, there is a storm coming. First the poem. Read the title as a companion to “grumble grumble”. Contemple contemple Con temple, con tempi, with times. I hear say that these …

Thursday Doors reminder

Since my today’s post doesn’t appear in my Reader and possibly neither in yours, here is a hook. Do you wish to see doors from here shot by me and the man on the floor? See my previous post. Thank you.

Final A and I Poetry Challenge

I’ve had the pleasure of taking part in the A and I Poetry Challenge which ran from March till now. This is its final chapter.  I wish to thank Amanda and Ineke for all the prompts that made me poem even when it’s not April. Since …

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 …

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 – …

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 …

Pic and a Word #147: Organic

Every time I return to this garden that my parents tend in Piran, Slovenia, where their surprising second home has grown, I wonder what we have done to deserve it.  The Garden of Eden and Druga* Permaculture, they call it. It’s been explained as live …

Na zdravje, Dad!

Today celebrates my father, in many ways my role-model. One of the things I love the most is how you will always caress a dog. This year I’m here for your birthday, for a change. Last year I came a bit later and yet all …

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 …

That’s PJ and amore

While a neighbouring country – my Slovenia – celebrates 27th birthday today, here is a band that has survived that awkward age. The poem is for June edition of the A and I Poetry Challenge, and the concert is tomorrow. First their poem, my favourite: …

June 2017

Before June is over, here is a look at last year’s as is my habit. As you will see, it had a girly feel. With all their visitors and views and vibrations, spring and summer months are so hard to pin down in twelve images, …

Favourite WPC posts, blog 2/2

Weekly Photo Challenge may be over but not on my blog. Here is another part of my WPC retrospective. As I’m waiting for my travelling uncle to come and take me to Slovenia for the summer, I’ve been enjoying a look back at my previous …

Favourite WPC posts, blog 2/1

This is my second post for the last WPC challenge ever, which challenged us to post our favourite photos. Who follows me will know that it won’t end here. In my last week’s post my favourite WPC posts from my first blog were gathered. Today I …

Books x7

Facebook can be all sorts of things. This week it made me put books up my tree. I’ve just read Norm’s rant on the subject but my post had already been planned. This week I’ve been posting covers of my favourite books on Facebook, since …

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 …