Today marks one year since I posted my first post on this blog because my first blog was getting full. A good day to view one’s heritage.
In one year I managed to fill it up with less than 40% of space remaining. Serves me right for always cramming my posts with too many photos. Can’t help it, my selection process is as generous as me.
First we shall have a look at the last two weeks on my blog since I was busy with visitors last weekend, and then I’ll show you what heritage means to me. In the past 14 days:
- My Weekly Photo Challenge post on “Danger!” had to do with smoking, or even better, non-smoking;
- I translated my poet friend’s poem about times that were and added photos from our home-town Ljubljana, Slovenia;
- I stopped the car here in Maremma and took photos from the left window and then from the right;
- on Ljubljana’s V-Day Maya-the-dog found her ball in Rome’s beautiful park Villa Pamphili;
- for last week’s Photo Challenge I made a selection of reflections including one of me on dog;
- street artsy Thursday Doors were all from the same street, Trubarjeva in Ljubljana;
- then visitors arrived and we went to Pereta to eat because New York Times said we must;
- time came for another part of my personal movie madness with short reviews;
- then it was Thursday again and your door catering service reported from Tuscania;
- and the last post showed you how Italy seduces with apparent wholesomeness.
And now, to what I take from my ancestors. My favourite quotation on the subject sums it up beautifully:
Walking, I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.
— Linda Hogan, Native American writer
Many photos will be familiar to those who have stuck with me for a while. With thanks, always.
Photo: © signature mmm + all b&w and the last one by BM + “At the demonstration” by Braco Zavrnik. Thank you!
In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: Heritage
Thanks for nice memories
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Ni za kej. 🙂
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What, has it already been a year?!! Nice family shots – and I do remember seeing some of them. The black and white ones are my faves!
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Thanks, SMSW, father is a pro. Yes, a year flew by as if it’s nothing. And now one more will do the same.
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Hey! I’m a collager too! Great photos. Very fond of Pippi, Pooh, and father and son 🙂
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Thanks, Joey. 🙂 Collager, right… I didn’t know there’s a word for us. By “son” you mean bestia, right? 😉
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Oh no, have I got it wrong? Is that you and your dad in the black and white?
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Why, yes, but why not call me daughter? 🙂
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Because you’re grand daughter
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😀 Oh, she meant you and your father?
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My brain took it elsewhere, so sorry!
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I always enjoy looking at the photos you share.
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Oh, Dan, today your comment went into spam. :p Good that I look in there. Thank you for saying so.
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I’m ending up in spam a lot these days 😦
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Well, this comment was safely delivered. 🙂
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Ah! les vieilles photos… je les adore.
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Merci, Mamie! Salut!
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Great memories! I’ve enjoyed the year of images and stories and look forward to many more.
I used to collect my favorite things on a corkboard. The boards are long gone, but in boxes the things remain. 🙂
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Thank you, Deborah! Oh yes, the show must go. (As a contestant in a Slovenian reality show wrongly quoted.) No end in sight. I’ve got my old things in boxes too, but they are back in Slovenia…
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Your love of family always shines through in your posts and so it is no surprise that it should take centre stage in a pictorial view of your heritage 🙂
I love the multi-generational photo at the beginning. Your mom on the far left was instantly recognizable. She still looks the same over all the years!!
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Hihi, thank you, Joanne, I’ll make sure mom sees this. She is a wonder woman! And I’m glad it shines through, thanks for saying so. ❤
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Love that photo of you as Pippi! Great memories ❤
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Thanks, Suvi, they truly are.
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Lovely collection of photos. I particularly love the first one 🙂
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Thank you, Su Leslie, and for having a look around. Oh yes, four generations. Do you see how all three are making sure in the exactly same way that I don’t fall? 🙂
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Yes; their love and concern are so clear, and visually it makes the composition of the shot really powerful.
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