Please have a look at many more jubilant moments on my new blog. This blog will soon retire.
As seen in Orbetello park. Photo: a © signature mmm production
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: Jubilant
Orbetello
Since I’m inarticulate, I express myself with images.
—Helen Levitt
Nah. Just lazy. In Orbetello. Photo: a © signature mmm production
Na zdravje, Alenka!
My friend, it feels like you were just here. Maybe because you were. Let’s see what all we did. (Story in the captions.)
The wall is okay. /Roma/
But I hear you prefer benches…/Pitigliano/
It’s better in two though. /Sovana/
Or in three. /Porto Santo Stefano/
You make a lovely family. /Orbetello/
Just your wedding planner is a bit out of shape… 😀 /Civitella Maritima/
…and sometimes confuses bridges. /NOT the way to Sovana/
But it was still a lovely walk.
It made us hungry and studying was in order. /Sovana/
Wow effect. /Pitigliano/
Matching colour scheme. /Porto Ercole/
Wow effect was on this side. /Capalbio/
By Lake Burano
We call it Spanish elder, they call it lilac.
The same field where I lied down and got zero poppies. /Capalbio scalo/
Matching colour scheme II.
Bodyguard.
Deserved rest. /Terme Saturnia/
But not for long: you are putting your shoes back on…
…and it’s action time again. /Capalbio beach/
Photo: a © signature mmm production
And a special thank you to Jože for this photo from Roma. We just had to sit down a little again. 😀
Dear Alenka, thank you so much for your visit and good times. Today is your birthday and no matter what have a cin cin in my name too. I hope to see you back here soon.
Thursday Doors, April 28
One CAN get overdoored. It happened to me in the last four days.
Doors were attacking me left and right. When sorting the photos I got so overwhelmed that I almost missed the deadline for this week’s Norm’s Thursday Doors. Here is just a teaser: one door from every place that we visited.
We started out with a day in Rome: here the Embassy of Slovenia in Vatican.
The next day it was Pitigliano first.
Then it was a hike to (the wrong) one of the Via Cave where a door was the last thing I expected.
And we ended in Sovana not on foot as intended.
Day three, the monastery at Monte Argentario
Porto Santo Stefano
Porto Ercole
Orbetello
The WWF Oasis Lake Burano headquarters
Capalbio
The last day started with Civitella Maritima.
It continued with Siena with its magnificent cathedral. Wonderful visitors minded bestia for me throughout. Thank you!
And to finish off the door odyssey: Abbey of St. Antimo.
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WPC: Dinnertime, children
There was the subject of cook for another challenge not so long ago, so today let me concentrate on the places where we also eat when we don’t eat at home, even though there are some photos from there as well. More info in the captions. Buon appetito!
First Slovenia: a fish canteen in Portorož.
Bosnian restaurant in Piran named after the Olympic Games 1984.
The restaurant at the beach in Piran.
The best restaurant in Piran. Above the stove there is magnet saying “My family tree is full of nuts”. I bought it.
Here we eat in Piran if it’s not too hot (ok, or too cold).
Another restaurant by the sea in Piran.
This fish restaurant is in Ljubljana with the view of the greatest Slovenian poet and his muse.
Croatia follows: This is al fresco in camp Škrila, island Krk, Croatia.
Here we didn’t eat, looks lovely, Grožnjan, Croatia.
Back to Italy: Here Niki de Saint Phalle was making her barbecues. Il giardino dei tarocchi.
This is in Lucca and we didn’t stop and eat no matter how lovely it was.
This was the wedding on the beach in Ostia.
And this was Oktoberfest in Tuscany. Pub “Porta gialla”, Borgo Carige.
For my birthday they + dad took me to Orbetello and we had a great time.
And when you stroll around Pienza, this surprises you. Slow Food for Burkina Faso. Something sounds off here.
To return home: Did you know that in Italy it’s believed that one person eats 125 g of pasta? Slippers by UrsaNina.si
This happens when I ‘cook’ for myself.
I love eating on our terrace, whereas some others are afraid of flying bestias.
His father brought this. Five kilos of lamb. It fed us (and Bestia) for weeks.
His daughter made this: apple cake. Takes after father.
Ooops, this is not us. But they have dinner too. Buon appetito!
Photo: a © signature mmm production
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: Dinnertime
SL-WEEK 38: Yellow WordPress
Sylvain said that he would be gone and we had two weeks to deliver our yellow pages. And I thought, ahh, that’s a long time.
Alas, just like in school, even the longest time passes. He is back with a new theme, and I’m stuck with so many yellow photos gathered! Let me post them anyway, even if late.
I think this is the longest gallery on my blog. Yellow is my blog’s background colour, after all, and the colour of the wall in my bedroom. Location info is in the captions.
Burano Lake
Burano Lake
Orbetello
The Pantheon, Rome
Capalbio
Nika’s colour scheme
Piran, Slovenia
Piran, Slovenia
Piran, Slovenia
SRC SAZU, Ljubljana, Slovenia
In archaeological park Vulci
Oktoberfest in Tuscany
Roma
Local volcano (nah)
Roma
Roma
Portorož, Slovenia
By Lake Burano
Il giardino dei tarocchi
Il giardino dei tarocchi
Orbetello
Orbetello
Roma
Golden light off Capalbio
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Three years of bestia
Our companion Fonzie a.k.a bestia celebrates his third birthday today! It has become the tradition that for each his birthday the past year is presented calendar-style, one photo of him for each month, starting with last April.
Yes, he is named after Fonzie from “Happy Days” which, however, I was never able to watch as it didn’t air on Slovenian television. But Italians all seem to know who he is and agree that they look a bit similar. Well done, G., for naming him!
Today he will meet his ‘friend’ Angie-the-cat again. Maybe she will even play with him just a little, as a present.
Live long and prosper, bestia!
Dog park in Orbetello. April.
Orbetello with ‘grandparents’. May.
Relax at home with the leader of the pack. June.
At his first Italian wedding (mine first too). July.
In Mengeš, Slovenia, door-hunting. August.
Goofing with uncle. September.
I like him seeing like this the most. October.
On the beach. November.
With a ‘relative’ for Christmas.
Keeping warm – nah, just posing – in snowy Slovenia. January.
By the Orbetello lagoon, bravely walking on wobbly pier. February.
On the bike ride. March.
Photo: a © signature mmm production
Grocery shopping
What I see first thing upon exiting the local supermarket by the Orbetello lagoon these days.
Photo: a © signature mmm production
Sometimes
An afternoon over the Orbetello lagoon and the beach of Capalbio. Always something going on.
Sometimes it snows in April. Just not here.
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Thursday Doors, March 24 – anniversary edition
Norm’s Thursday Doors photo challenge is one year old. My blog will be two in under a week. Celebrations are in order.
I thought it would be good for the occasion to have a look at what kind of doors I published in the first year of my blog before landing the perfect challenge for me.
The first time I participated was on May 1 with the typical title Thursday Doors on a Friday, wondering if this was allowed, but it took me a month to grow into a regular. Since then I think I only missed one Thursday, early on, it just flew by too fast. Door-spotting has become a family sport and a source of joy. Thank you for that, Norm, and to every contributor for making it fun.
The following photos have all already been published before I found Thursday Doors. I am too lazy to edit them up a bit and upload them once again with the watermark. They will have to do as they are.
Porto Ercole
Scarlino
Metelkova City, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Metelkova City, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Metelkova City, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Metelkova City, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Metelkova City, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Local invitation.
Scansano
Padna, Slovenia
Pitigliano
Pitigliano
“I’m by your side, however you decide.” Lucca
Future Double Helix Runaway’s room. Lucca
“I’m telling you the truth!” Lucca
Just a little confession. Lucca
Roma
Ex-casa
Casa, sweet casa
Koper, Slovenia 🙂
Magliano
Photo: DS / Posing in Orbetello
And this is a recent revisit to my favourite local door used for the New Year’s Day edition of Thursday Doors. I had to take some new photos because they are in bloom. Let our Thursday Doors bloom on too!
Photo: a © signature mmm production
For the anniversary edition of Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors challenge.
WPC: My life normally doesn’t imitate art
…but sometimes my camera gets painterly in a way I’d never thought anything of mine would. Maremma helps. Benvenuti!
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- Capalbio mare
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- Orbetello
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- Magliano
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- Orbetello lagoon
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- Talamone
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- Burano Lake
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- Capalbio Scalo
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- Capalbio Scalo
Photo: a © signature mmm production
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: Life Imitates Art
SL-WEEK 31: Fleeting time
I know the idea was to post a wicked long-exposure shot, but alas I don’t do that, except by accident. For me, the word that best captures the concept of time is fleeting.
But first a little story. We loved playing a kind of charades when we went to our annual sea adventure to Duba. The words to pantomime were random and sometimes very difficult to guess. One time it was mom’s turn to show and ours to guess. Before starting on the first word she looked towards the horizon and gave a little smile. “Fleeting,” came out of my mouth. Actually, “minljiv,” we are Slovenians after all.
It was correct.
These are kind of like that.
Photo: MM
SL-WEEK 21: Amore
This week’s Sylvain’s theme made me smile. It was about time. Nothing else needs saying.
Above Orbetello
In Lucca
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- Apfelstrudel for the win
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- In Roma
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- Love by train
In Pienza
Photo: MM
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