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 …

Day eight: Happy 5th birthday, Bestia!

My furry companion turns five today, which is also how long I have been living in Italy.  Challenge 8: “Write poems in which mysterious and magical things occur.” I’m starting to feel the reality of the fact that prior to embracing this month-long challenge I …

WPC: Growing water

Eerie, cautionary, out of time. When water comes a-knocking.  Three weeks ago, when on a visit to my birthtown Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, the annual floods hit the part of the city that is built on the marshes, hence it is still called Barje, …