A new door is open

So this one can close. This is the last post on this blog. Let me kindly and gently direct you to my next one. But first, my New Year’s greeting to you as I sent it around this year. The photo was taken in Rome …

Pic and a Word Challenge #167: Ruckus in the still of the morning

The photo above is exactly as it was taken, in the name of all that doesn’t need any changes. The gallery below has more of such creatures, some more surprising than others. But first, a poem of how it used to be three days ago …

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 …

Lens-Artists PC: Car reflections and new blog

Here is a collection of the last two months’ worth of Roman car window reflections and an invitation to my new blog.  Happy in between days, days between this and that, days that nobody is celebrating or congratulating you for. This blog, my third, is …

Ti piace Manja

Yesterday and today celebrate a couple of people but I only have eyes for one. (The other is Ed Vedder.) Every year I try to imagine how little Marco growing up in Rome had to fight for his birthday with that other guy. But he …

Thursday Doors, 20/12/18: 2018 Recap

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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, …

Pic and a Word #156: Your kind of love

Yesterday I spent travelling by myself. No wonder I was thinking of you. Your kind of love Today I’m taking your daily train route, all 100 minutes of it. Just right for a good film. So I stare out. We go past the lake. Do …

Thursday Doors, 27/9/18: Norm’s Doors 3

“Life’s too short for boring doors” could be the official slogan of our jolly little group. Let’s have more of the other kind. Small wonder that it was Norm, our chief, who wrote this in a comment to one of my Thursday Doors post on …

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 …

Thursday Doors, 20/9/18: More Norm’s doors

Welcome, all the good regular and irregular door people, and see the doors that most pleased our top door expert over the years. And #8!!!!! That’s it, I’m getting on a plane NOW and heading straight there. I’m going to knock on that door and …

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 …

Thursday Doors, 13/9/18: Norm mix I.

Today a special door selection from my first blog, of doors that caught the eye of our Thursday Doorman.  “The day I set foot in Rome and start exploring for doors… well I don’t know if I’ll ever leave the place.” This was the comment …

CFFC: Components of a Photo, week 2

This week for Cee’s challenge, instead of giving points to the photos according to their components like last week, I’ve chosen only two things that (nearly) all my photos have in common: sea inhabitants and a wall.  First, here is Cee’s photo for Week 2 of …

CFFC: Components of a Photo, week 1

For Cee’s new photo challenge today each of my proverbial 20 photos will be graded and you’ll be able to guess which were taken in Italy and which in Slovenia. First, here is Cee’s original photo and I hope she doesn’t mind me reposting it. Our …

Thursday Doors, 28/6/18: Rome

Today, a collection of Roman doors without much ado or words. I’ve been driving almost for seven hours today, the last part on the curvy road up in the Slovenian hills in an attempt to circumvent a road block. The air was fresh. I’m almost …

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: …