Monday, June 30, 2008
What I Did on the Plane
Framed and Ready
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Vienna Finds
Done In Time
Friday, June 27, 2008
Another Blue Done
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Tux the Gardener
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Virpazar

Virpazar is right next to the lake, a national park that is a wetlands preservation project. Most of Virpazar's meager income is the result of tourists going out on the lake. This place is at least as poor as many places in Kosovo. It was built on a medieval fort, and most of the fort is incorporated into people's houses. For example, these stairs lead up to a decrepit place that's still used - it has a dog and sheep in the yard and some flowers, but no electricity, no running water, and so on.


We took a walk around the town (taking all of ten minutes to do so), and went to the restaurant for dinner. It was at least as much of an experience as the room. i was given a wilted bouquet of local wildflowers when we sat down to dinner. With the exception of the frozen mixed veg, it was obvious everything was from the local area. Our first course was mulberries. I don't think I've -ever- been served mulberries before. There was a cold fried dough, some honey, and olives - uncured, new olives. The veal was from an old milch cow from its toughness, but at least it was thoroughly cooked. Someone associated with the place came by with fresh water chestnuts he pressed us to try. By the end of the meal, we had somehow acquired a basil plant on top of that. The only other customers were a foursome of French caravaners who decided to eat out instead of cooking. All in all ... weird and definitely an imitation of an acid trip.
Exchange Received
Little Yellow One
Monday, June 23, 2008
A Treat for Me!
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Trogir


And this is the landward entrance to town. The walls encompass everything to the water side.

This is the footbridge to one of the newer areas of town. It's just a pretty bridge, so I put it here. There was also a market on the new side and we were lucky enough to see a line of parked classic cars on the quay as we ate lunch. My companion took a lot of pictures of them for my husband. If you want to see more pictures of Trogir, go here.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Part Six Done

Flowers!
Thursday, June 19, 2008
More Celadon

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Split Beach



Barely Any Progress
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Mysterious Progress

A Bit on Split


Monday, June 16, 2008
Going Green
Sunday, June 15, 2008
One Reason I've Not Been Stitching Much

Blued Out

Saturday, June 14, 2008
On the Road



Flaming...
Friday, June 13, 2008
Ston



More of the wall here, and you can see the town fort in it, too. We didn't walk up these, either, but you can.

I have a fascination for town clocks, so my companion took this picture of Ston's city hall and clock for me. Really fancy for a town of no more than five hundred people. If you want to see more of Ston, you can go here and click on the Ston set.
Dragonfly Petals

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Some of Split

A Bit More Color

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Stash from Split




Both of the trim shops had a wide selection of very nice buttons. Several were dichroic, even. I bought a bunch and also this neat little coin trim, where it's all old Roman reproductions in tin.