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 … Continue reading A new door is open
Tag: 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 … Continue reading Pic and a Word Challenge #167: Ruckus in the still of the morning
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 … Continue reading Complete Calendar 2017
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 … Continue reading Lens-Artists PC: Car reflections and new blog
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 … Continue reading Ti piace Manja
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
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
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 … Continue reading Lens-Artists PC: Happiness is a choice
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 … Continue reading November 2017
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
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
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, … Continue reading October 2017
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 … Continue reading Pic and a Word #156: Your kind of love
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 … Continue reading Thursday Doors, 27/9/18: Norm’s Doors 3
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 … Continue reading Lens-Artists PC: Small gifts from the streets
The Volterra door that made Norm display un-Canadian occupying tendencies. Read the post below the gallery.
Another Volterra edition.
This Capalbio door is quite possibly the real deal. It has seen it all and now it will see Norm.
Norm admired the elements of this photo. (Also in Capalbio.)
This door is opposite our vet in Pescia Romana.
A parallel life of my parents in Monticiano.
A surprising door found during the hike in Via Cava near Pitigliano.
The prettiest of Civitella Marittima.
A classic beauty of Caldana.
Orbetello winner.
A house in front of a house in Vetulonia.
This Vetulonia door has a cat compartment and was on sale.
A dark wise door in Porto Santo Stefano.
A happy scene in Porto Ercole.
Norm appreciated the busyness of this image. (Also in Porto Ercole.)
One of the colourful Monteverde shutters in Rome.
The entrance to the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Eur, Rome.
One of the Rome giants. That note is at eye level.
Another Rome sturdy beauty.
A door collection on sale in Siena. Norm said: “You don’t need that poster – you could make your own and it would be even nicer.” Thank you!
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 … Continue reading Thursday Doors, 20/9/18: More Norm’s doors
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 … Continue reading September 2017
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 … Continue reading Thursday Doors, 13/9/18: Norm mix I.
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 … Continue reading CFFC: Components of a Photo, week 2
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 … Continue reading CFFC: Components of a Photo, week 1
Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini.
The prettiest police precinct in the world. Rome.
I know this symbol… Communist Party of Italy was established here, it seems.
Imagine the multitude that are Roman doors for a minute.
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 … Continue reading Thursday Doors, 28/6/18: Rome
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: … Continue reading That’s PJ and amore
Mexi Movie the Third (closed) 