That time of year

Again, the red time of the year. 

Redcurrant. 

 

Red cherries.

Red sour cherries.

And several red cakes :-)

Cycling

Some paths are meant for cycling.

Just like some rivers are meant for kayaking ;-)

Little presents

What a week. 

I got little presents on Saturday, Sunday morning, Sunday afternoon, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. 

And no, I am not celebrating anything. 

Just presents from all sorts of people on all sorts of occasions.

I appreciate it :-)

Summer trousers

I've had this colourful light fabric for quite a while now, but now was the right occasion to make a superlight superwide superflowy trousers. So I made them :-)

Oh, I've been away again

I've been away again - the fourth time within five weeks!

Even for me, this is quite a lot.

 

But I am not complaining :-) 

I've seen Vilnius and Trakai.

And I have climbed some... questionable stairs.

Oh well...

Sometimes, one has to accept that one cannot be at two different places at the same time.

It's hard but one has to do it. 

But if I didn't cancel this one thing, I would have to cancel/postpone eleven (!) others.

Ugh. 

And I was away, again

And I've been even further away. 

 

An interesting place.

A different place.

A beautiful place.

 

Uzbekistan.

Summer fabrics

Just before flying to France, I made myself a new summery dress. 

A lovely floral Jersey with orchids.

  

 And slightly puffy sleeves. 

 

And as soon as one dress was finished, I acquired new fabrics :-) 

Away :-)

And I was away again.

To my favourite corner of the world.

 

Waking up to the smell of oranges

Taking it slow and relaxing my mind

 

And saying hello to an old friend of mine 

Really?

I again stayed in a hotel where I've often stayed before. And so far, my rooms were always pretty generic hotel rooms with not much character.

Not this time!

I am impressed. 

And speechless :-D

:-)

I love surprises.

Especially if they are as pretty as this one :-)

Chat?

Let's say you're super busy and work insane hours preparing an important project for work. 

When you get really tired, on a Saturday evening, you ask Chat GPT to create an overview scheme illustrating the project content for the cover page.

And Chat delivers a lovely sketch. Of course. 

It's just that the project is about experimental fundamental physics :-)

More Italy

We visited another interesting town in Italy, Treviso.

No pictures from the exhibition that we visited, but some from the town itself.

 Just layered mesh. What a great idea!

 

Satyr piper from the 13th century, once in Casa Gobbato.

The depiction of the writer Giovanni Comisso by Mario Martinelli (2000). 

Cycling in Croatia

Cycling the Parenzana trail is a great experience.

Visiting some historic villages ...

... and cycling a lovely trail ...

with plenty of places to take a break :-)

Spring is here

Yes, spring is here.

Watching the Olympics

Although we were only about 10 km (as the crow flies) away from Cortina, we watched the Olympics on TV. 

And this is a great opportunity to watch sports I never watch otherwise. 

And admire their Olympics uniforms. My absolute favourite team was Mongolia:

But I also loved Lithuania!

And yes, we've seen the opening :-)

Screenshots stolen from the Internet.

No. 

Just no.

Snowy days

We've spent some wonderful snowy days in the Italian Dolomites. 

 

This picture was taken before it started snowing :-)

What a wonderful place to be.

Some days...

Some days are more special than the others.

 

Thank you all.

Snow!

Lots of snow.

And freezing temperatures.

I love it :-) 

Tolkien in Trieste

Holidays are also a great time to visit exhibitions. So we drove to Trieste and visited the exhibition about J.R.R. Tolkien.