Thursday Doors, 15/8/19: Loka pri Mengšu

Since our door selector Norm liked my last week’s door dash in dying daylight, here is one more, featuring a church and a castle that I had never seen before.

We start where we finished three weeks ago, at the end of the Volčji Potok Arboretum tour near the capital of Slovenia:

The rear door into a whale.

Then my biologist friend who took me there – and celebrated her birthday yesterday with a dash in dying daylight of her own in Venice! – asked me if I wished to see a castle with the name I had never heard before, Jable (or Jablje). There was a church on the way and I just had to de-door it as well.

Both are situated in the little town called Loka pri Mengšu (near Mengeš). As you will see, they are in fear of their doors there. I know, those pesky photo door predators!

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  In Slovenia you are never far from the mountains.

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  One of the typical Slovenian countryside features:

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  Hayrack, or “kozolec” in Slovenian.

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  The Church of St. Primus and Felician.

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  Do you see? They only let us see the top half of their doors.

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  Why could this be? Floods? Pest? Fear of ruin?

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  St. Christopher to the rescue.

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  All together.

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  Jable Castle just above the church has been upgraded recently.

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  They forgot the door.

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  Pretty door and brick.

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  The trash can is in the way.

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  Photographer’s attempt to conceal it.

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  Back to the previous door. How many photos of one door can one take?

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  One more. I noticed the maple. It wished to show itself to the Canadians.

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  And finally, a natural door. I bet they use it for weddings.

For Norm Frampton’s Thursday Doors challenge.