January

 

What happens when you see a lovely calendar post and decide to do your own.

Yesterday I saw a post by Judith at Beyond the Window Box in which she posts one photo from each month of this year. I warned her that I might nick the idea and she agreed.

When I started to gather photos, I had twelve immediately.

There was just a little problem: they were all from January.

Terribly stuck to choose only one! and discard all the rest! I decided to simply make a January post instead. I don’t think the other months will follow even though they might.

However, when I tried to upload the photos – it was about this time yesterday – I realised that my laptop had lost its upload power. Mail was fine, downloading was fine, Twitter was fine, just Facebook was stalling opening photos and videos and showing my feed. The other computer in the network was fine. Phone was fine. Today it was even worse: even though router was showing that internet connection was, you guessed it, fine, practically nothing was opening, or just for a very short while.

Was it a case of our provider Tiscali having some fun, was it like amore said: “If you cannot upload that means somebody else is downloading”, or was somebody out there afraid that I might write to the electors like some Micheal Moore? 😉 Just in case, I waved into my webcam even though it was off.

Did anybody have such problems yesterday as well? Any idea?

Anyway, the situation resolved itself without my help just earlier and here is my January. (Clicking on the first photo will open a gallery.)

On the first, there were three palms on the peninsula of happiness: Piran.

Then we moved to Ljubljana and #13 where my parents have been thriving since they got married. Don’t let anybody tell you it brings bad luck.

Ljubljana always dresses up for the holidays.

JANUARY: Looking up in Ljubljana centre.

National and University Library. I went from this…

…to this as we returned home in southern Tuscany.

Neighbours.

“A” down under.

I often wish to take my work outside…

A view from my desk instead.

If I get up really early, it’s a whole new world. Taken from the roof.

I was looking forward to new horizons, new beginnings and a new year. And then all this happened.

Photo: © signature mmm

My 2016 Calendar:

February is here.
March is here.
April is here.
May is here.
June is here.
July is here.
August is here.
September is here.
October is here.
November is here.
December is here.