Tag: Massa Marittima

Ston, Croatia. Photo: Klu
Bernardin, Slovenia. Photo: Klu
Marrakesh train station, Morocco. Photo: MK
A most excellent door and photo! Ostuni, Apulia. Photo: Ditka Bagon
Towards Orvieto.
Im-posing in Orvieto.
It was here that I got busted. See the door opening? Torri.
The Abbey of Santa Mustiola, Torri.
Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome.
When I spotted these even before I went there, I knew what I’d be posting this Thursday. By My Dog Sighs, Trastevere, Rome.
The prettiest police precinct in the world. Rome.
Friends. Saline di Tarquinia.
Socerb Castle, Slovenia. Sorry, father, no grandkids. She was borrowed.
Mom is deep in memories. The house where she grew up. Ljubljana.
Stove doors! Nova vas above Dragonja.
Stylish. Velenje Castle.
A lovely old fountain with some doors. Škofja Loka.
Look at that road! Kamnik.
Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Ljubljana. But Slovenia gives less and less money for culture!
Bežigrad, Ljubljana.
The beauty of a friend.
Was this view planned to be as perfect or did it get thus by chance? San Galgano Abbey.
Massa Marittima.
The prettiest one for the end. It was open so I sneaked in. Trieste.
This door would be pretty with anybody in it.
But it was Norm of all people. Massa Marittima.

Thursday Doors, 20/12/18: 2018 Recap

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Norm says to do a recap of this year doorwise, and so I have. I like recaps. They help you see. It felt good going through my year in doors especially since this blog is about to close. Yes, again. I guess I’m eating up … Continue reading Thursday Doors, 20/12/18: 2018 Recap

If you pass this door in Piran, Slovenia, you have my permission to draw something. It’s ours.
This is Piran cemetery doors. Do not write on it. It’s pretty.
Now to the united colours of Rome.
A hidden Tiburtina courtyard.
Two Monteverde favourites. I’d love to live behind this one.
Pretty door in good light.
Now over to Ljubljana, Slovenia. It’s full of strong men.
Another National and University Library entrance. I’ve posted the horse-shaped handle yet.
Whereas this is the police station in the centre of Ljubljana. Sister brought here a found phone.
On the way to Rožnik, a popular weekend hangout of Ljubljana natives.
Sis in Ljubljana Botanical Gardens.
The Door of Complaints in Slovenian House Figovec restaurant. No wonder it’s empty. Right: “From juniper to gin.” Bottom: “The hideout of the naughty ones.”
The beauty of a friend.
Žužemberk Castle, one of its many passages.
A fine door of Bolsena.
The first thing I saw at the Mestre bus station near Venice. This is Italy too.
Poetry of another kind in Rome: “Achilles – My heel, which is in love with you, is the most beautiful and strongest part of me.”
Maybe this is what they mean by Multipla: not the most aerodynamic car but it has multiple uses. Rome’s Monteverde.
The last door Norm saw around here. Capalbio Scalo.
Photo by: Norman Frampton, with thanks. In Massa Marittima.

Thursday Doors, 22/11/18: Door soup for Lens-Artists PC

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Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. ― Tom Stoppard, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” (quotation reblogged from One Million Photographs) It was exactly a month ago that I was forced to combine challenges and today I have to again, even though … Continue reading Thursday Doors, 22/11/18: Door soup for Lens-Artists PC

Hello, Norwegians in Umbria. You’ve been rainbowed.
Number 10: The loveliest entrance on the whole Via Slovenia in Grosseto.
This and the next five arches are from Tatti, the town of 100 doors.
More from Tatti on several following Thursdays. Because doors.
This is Massa Marittima. It is arched and well-doored as well.
Capalbio on the hill with double visitors.
And now to Rome and its courtyard mysteries.
This was the most surprising view.
The same garden from the second floor.
An arched fountain in another hidden courtyard.
A multi-arched Roman courtyard.
Our courtyarding concluded on Via Giulia. Especially convenient since my companion for the day was Giulia too. :)
This Pescia Fiorentina villa has its own garden chapel.
Opposite the chapel.
The natural arch of the villa garden.
The museum at the Roman settlement of Cosa in Ansedonia.

CFFC: 20 days of arches

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This week’s Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge came just in time for me: I’ve got arches, oh yes, I do. The last twenty days have been a bit busier than usual around here. First I had my parents over, another visiting couple came for a day, … Continue reading CFFC: 20 days of arches

A good heart

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The recent visit to Massa Marittima with my visiting parents who leave tomorrow brought about the following poem for the May round of the A and I Poetry Challenge.  First the three photos of the lovely find on which my poem is based, since this … Continue reading A good heart