June 2018

Before this June gets out of hand, let’s have a look at last year’s to see what is in store. Or isn’t, since years, seasons and months no longer necessarily resemble each other.

It was quite an eventful month. There was a weekend with two open-door events, a concert, and then my visiting uncle snatched me back to Slovenia for two months, the longest I’ve been away from my present home. In Tuscany. (Ha! Still hard to believe it after six years.)

This year my uncle is coming to take me away again but not before my portrait painted by Donna Stiles (as showed here) is displayed in a gallery in Massa Marittima later this month.

My Calendar 2018 is built by selecting twenty photos from the same month last year. This time I have to add one taken with my phone, which I hate doing but nothing else was available at the special show.

Here is my selection. I wish you a lovely June!

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  My favourite book. (Well, adult book. Because Pippi Longstocking wins overall.)

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  This private villa in Pescia Fiorentina had an open-door day. Step right up.

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  Plenty of interesting nooks.

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  Well, hello there.

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  This most beautiful meadow belongs to this villa as well.

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  Niki de Saint Phalle’s Tarot Garden (Il Giardino dei tarocchi) is right there. Just passing it this time.

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  The view to the other side. Tyrrhenian Sea with Corsica too far to see.

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  An artist’s residence in Ansedonia. She looks cold.

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  Roman ancient city of Cosa had an open-door day as well. I thought it was an Etruscan city. So much for my history knowledge.

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  Another of my favourite meadows. Just right for my mother’s June birthday.

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  She got this ladybird as well.

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  Watchdog.

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  Watchcat. She was in a bit of fear.

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  This one is a sweetheart though.

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  Travelling uncleberry will soon take me along.

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  From my present home…

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  …to my old one in Ljubljana.

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  From my Maremma…

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  …to my Bežigrad and Šmarna gora (the hill on the right).

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  But first we had to stop in Rome. Olympic Stadium, June 26th, my 10th Pearl Jam gig. I don’t think I’ve had enough. They are getting better.

And since I know that you’re dying to hear this show, here it is in a playlist by numbers (not my footage). 😉 And the official poster to match. Ed tells how some years ago when they were in Rome, he drove to Porto Ercole and wrote the song MFC in the car. I had to listen back to make sure that I’d heard correctly. Porto Ercole is right here.