Fertile Monday

New ideas  and accomplished goals. "To do" lists and finished tasks... Have a productive week!

 

Salty Sunday

   

Vanity Paradise

The golden dreams of a better life are very well sold here. This island is full of nothing, except of nature, yet is very ambitious offering the luxury. And the future looks good in this place, simply because the past is almost non-existing... So, let me enjoy my walk through the palms next to the sea, as I live here...  As Antonio Porchia said: "Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist."

 

 

Colors in My Garden 2

"You must be very patient", replied the fox. "First you will sit down at a little distance from me - like that - in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day..."

(Antoine de Saint Exupery. "The Little Prince") 

If taming works on foxes and people, maybe it works on anybody then? Only I am not sure, who is trying to tame whom...

Colors in My Garden

Living in the house with a garden, even the small one, is not the same like living in an apartament on the second (or fifth, or fifteenth :)) floor. First, you feel like you have your feet on the ground. Second, you must accept a huge ammount of visitors ;) All kinds,  types and  colors.  Only if you accept them, the Nature embraces you with a joy and good energy. Still you have to accept the fact, that  two feet might be not  fast enough when you run after four, begging to say "cheese!" :))

Moonfull

Last night was The Night :)  Full!  Of the beauty. Full of mystery. Full of magic. Full of meaning...  Of dreams... Hope... Inspiration... Admiration... Calmness... Happiness... So MOONFULL!..

 

Opened Sky

For many things we are not ready. Until we are ready to turn off the thinking part. The brain very often stops human from being happy. So many times the doors open up offering the light and peace, but the doubts and fears doesn't let to make that step. Because experiences in the past and uncertainty about the future tells the different. Because people prefear thinking instead of feeling, they are proud HOMO SAPIENS... But only  "now and here" feeling is a really happy moment. Not in the past, not in the future... Did ever sky opened the door with a hope and you wasn't ready?

Salty Sunday

           



Home in the Heart

We all come from one place - HOME. But we grow up and leave it. And at times we want to come back. Especially when want to feel safe, relaxed and happy. But the truth is, when you create another home away from the native, might be difficult to embrace only one. Simply because wherever place you choose, you miss the one you left... So, what to do? Enjoy each place from all your heart while you are there. The Home is where your heart is.



Calima...

The  yellow crispy haze hovers not only in the air. It's dump stickiness heavily penetrates  my mind, my body and my soul... I HATE IT!!!

Violet (bluish purple)

Blooming madness invades my dreams. Even when I am awake feels like a dream. Colors, petals, smells, forms secretly wrapping me into the cocoon of imagination. It's hard to resist it, because it occupies all space, from the ground all the way to the sky... So what I can do is to lay down my mind on the bluish purple cloud between other clouds and to follow it's magic mystery...  "Purple rain, purple rain, I only want to see you, only want to see you in the purple rain..."  (Prince)



9th of May

This day resounds in a triple echo in my memories -  the Victory Day, my Father's birthday and the day my Sister was born... Unfortunately, that's only what is left. The memories. The death of the Soviet Union killed the necessity to celebrate 9th of May. My Father is resting in peace many years already. And my Sister, she's so far away! Luckily I still have her...  But can you imagine how it was for my Father, having his first child on his own birthday, celebrating the Victory Day? So let it be, the triple celebration  in a honor of the Life's Victory! Happy Birthday, Drakoša!

That's her, my diligent modest Sister www.drakonolizdas.blogspot.com

                      

Salty Sunday

                

Housewife's Dilema

I love them, the artichokes. So perfect and versatile things. The problem is, I am not so sure how to use them in the best way. Should I make some "flower" decoration, or just eat it up??? 

Deja vu

There are dreams that visit  over and over again. There are experiences lived over and over. And there are places... Just breath taking.  So behind real and unreal...  Simply because I am standing there for a first time and can't get rid of the feeling "already seen". But where? In my past? In my dreams? Marvelous  Deja vu...

Green Power

The spring is ready to spring in the spring :)  



Happy Nothing

Usually the weekend is just like a normal multitasking day. Before that the brain starts planing to clean, to repair, to renovate, to start a new project, to go, to see, to shop, to eat, to do... And here I am, after two days of doing... NOTHING! Absolutely nothing. Big nothing. Happy nothing! That's right, it's HAPPY feeling. Just looking to the sky until get bored, maybe move to cafe next door to grab something, jump into the pool couple times, turn some pages of easy reading... No plan, no time, just an easy floating... Sounds lazy? But have you ever tasted that? The happy nothing?

Salty Sunday

 



Blustery Day

"Oh the wind is lashing lustily

And the trees are trashing thrustily

And the leaves are rustling gustily

So it's rather safe to say

That is seems that it may turn out to be

It feels that it will undoubtedly

It looks like a rather blustery day today

Hum dum dum ditty dum

Hum dum dum..."

(Winnie The Pooh)

 

 

La Dolce Vita

To eat or not to eat the breakfast? That's not the question... Not even WHAT to eat, but HOW to eat! The composition on your plate is a personal choice. And the quantity is not so important, as some like to start the day slowly, while others run on full speed from early morning. The quality is only thing what matters. The fresh pleasure for the body and the soul :)  Have a nice day!



Gray/Grey

That's the color of today...  Supposedly the climate here is  to be  the best in the world.  Who ever invented that nonsense? No changes=good??? No spring, no rain, no falling leaves, no snow, no anything decent from the Nature! Same same and same... Except of today! The beautiful gray clouds brought some relief. Somehow we tend to believe that grey color is boring and sad, but just look at the Nature! The neutral peace, natural balance... Relief and relax... Let's enjoy it !

 

 

Flower Hunt

I found them! The local beauty, not the ones you can buy in the flower shop :)  Even had to crawl on my knees between the rocks  just to see this minature explosion of freshness in nowhere...  But aren't they fascinating? Reminds me of  litlle raspberries...  Oh, those Summer dreams!..

 

Stoned

Holiday means to relax and enjoy, especially if you use your time clever. If not, you might find yourself stoned, like most of the tourists... And  not necessarily from drugs or alcohol.  The ultimate state of the mind might be reached while frying yourself at the beach. Just laying there for all week...  Isn't that a definition of being stoned?  

Easter Sunday

 

                                           

Old Street

Until few decades ago it used to be a little fisherman's village. The small houses here and there, tiny stores, a couple of hotels... A few things to do besides fishing and cultivating tomatoes... Life was slow and relaxed.  Quiet. Simple. And today... I can count on my fingers the "real" houses, squeezed between new complexes, growing like baobabs. The non-stop roaring tourism machine moved almost all fish from the port to the supermarket; but also... it moved  me here!  Yet I get very nostalgic strolling  the old streets of  fisherman's place...



Little Girl's Dream

"We say we love flowers, yet we pluck them. We say we love trees, yet we cut them down. And people still wonder why some are afraid when told they are loved..."

A Thirst for Rain

When only a few drops felt down yesterday, it felt like a bad joke. Actually I almost got mad with that dusty arid bureaucracy  in the sky. Feeling thirsty I started "to google" the rain... And then I found this line - "The good rain, like the bad preacher, does not know when to leave off." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)  Immediately I had to twist it other way, I do that with everything ;)  Suddenly  I realised, that this "bad rain"  tells me to be patient...  In the night time the thirst was slaked...



Salty Sunday

  



Anthropology

I do eat meat. It's a genetic and cultural decision, geographically  made for me before developing my own ability to make my choice. Now I choose proteins, amino acids and other nutrients in the form of meat instead of  synthetic supplements to the vegetarian diet. It's possible to be a vegetarian without them? Great, but... not my case. I have a complicated body.  Don't like killing animals?  But next time you take a pill don't forget, that many pharmaceuticals are produced from animals... So let's push all dogmas away and don't be so judgemental, Homo Sapiens...

Insómnia

After the sleepless night my perception of the world might be not very  tame...

The Poppy

"Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,

And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame..."

                                 (Francis Thompson)

Monday

As Monday marks a continuing routines, the head just follows them without any thinking. The same tasks, same movements, same habits, same ways, same thinking, same same... Until - BANG! The head hits something hard. The sudden pain stops from going the same direction. It hurt, but it helped. To stop and continue differently.

Salty Sunday

Fusion

I am going to dig  myself into the sand.  A simple rest of senses.  Just take off  the clothes and blend  with the beach... Enjoy the sensation when every piece of sand hugging you... Just feel the body becoming a part of the sand... A total fusion... Melting...

Ostrich was right!

TeaTime

"Picture you upon my knee

Just tea for two

And two for tea

Just me for you

And you for me... alone-

Day will break and I'll gonna wake

And start to bake a sugar cake..."

 

Mm,mm,mm,mm...

Wall Pictures

I used to draw on the walls when I was a kid. And later a writting of short messages came along... But my  Mother was  the happy one :) A disturbed childhood?  No! A freedom!   That's why I like graffiti. Like a time-machine, it brings me back...
P.S. Mom, I didn't draw this one! I swear!!!

Green

Some think they know everything. Categorically, stubbornly opinionated about everything and everybody. The world in their eyes is black and white; there is no space for green creative intelligence. No time for learning, growing and respecting season-changes for differnt plants in different climate. Well...

"As long as you green, you're growing. As long as you're ripe, you start to rot."   (Ray Kroc)

 



Blogging

Never say never. Because you might start a blog :) At least that's my story. Honestly, had no idea about what I am doing, or where it will take me. I just did it. It was something I haven't done before , unknown for me, it was a challenge.  But before I started a blog, I already knew something. That I am not a writer, or neither a photographer, so I will not pretend to be one of them.  But you don't have to be a writer to express yourself, you don't have to be a professional to carry arround your pocket camera.The  only thing is  you must  be a human. Means imperfect. Imperfect! What I am very happy about, as I do this for myself. What makes me more happy. I have "all rights reserved " not telling why or how. But I will tell you one thing. Life here is not a  touristic brochure. And making photos is extreamly challenging, simply because it´s too much sun, means light, means overexposion, means pictures look dull and flat... Also where I live, nothing ever changes, only faces of tourists. What I have another promise about, not putting faces of people here... (At least not yet :))  And if I´ve been fooling you with immages of beautifull life, I will say SORRY now, by showing a reality, not a holidays postcard... Just look at the picture below.  But am I lying posting the glimpses of the beauty? Which is everywhere, only if you want see it?  You tell me.  The world is a beautifull place, and a life itself is a mirracle. I know what I am talking about, literally... As my friend told, to me "life happened"... BTW, to you too!

 So, how does it looks the life here? Colorful, fresh and relaxing? Have to tell you, was a lucky day, clouds passed by... It could take many months in summer time to see any ;)

Just looked at the lenght of my post today... I will come back to my daydreaming tomorrow. Mañana...                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

Salty Sunday

  

Peace Offering

"I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. ..."        (Mahatma Gandhi)  

Should be easy. If we wouldn't wait for such words from someone, but start giving for another. Today?..