Another photo (and more inconsequential banter)

[SummerMorning]

One more teabook photo of a deep lake.

Anybody want to site their story here? If you must know, the lake is named Divje jezero - literally Wild lake - because when it rains heavily the water boils out of it in a rushing, roaring torrent. This photo is obviously not taken in stormy weather.

 

[SummerMorning]

Apples.

 

[Guest]

Jabolka, jabolka, klasni jabolka.

 

[cantdog]

There is a milky quality to much of the water in this thread and the last. I assume it to be mineral in origin? (Except for the sink, of course!)

I saw a river system with lakes, in New Zealand, with much the same translucency, as if it were a thinned paint mix. I do not now recall what the minerals were to which the color was ascribed.

cantdog

 

[cantdog]

klasni

... and they aren't especially red.

 

[SummerMorning]

There is a milky quality to much of the water in this thread and the last. I assume it to be mineral in origin? (Except for the sink, of course!)

I saw a river system with lakes, in New Zealand, with much the same translucency, as if it were a thinned paint mix. I do not now recall what the minerals were to which the color was ascribed.

cantdog

Limestone. The whole Julian Alps are more or less limestone. That's what gives the water that quality. Lots and lots of limestone.

 

[Guest]

Summ, I truly love your images and focus. Keep posting whenever you like.

Perdita

p.s. As krassni in Russian, does klasni mean both red and beautiful?

 

[SummerMorning]

Alas, vodka has missed the letter.

It's krasna.

Jabolka, krasna jabolka.

And it's just "beautiful" or "splendid," not red. Red iz "rdeča."

 

[SummerMorning]

Klasna would mean "ear-like," as in an ear of wheat. I guess that since vodka is distilled from, well, grain among other things, the mishap was logical.



"Earie apples"

 

[SummerMorning]

Two symbols.

 

[SummerMorning]

Yellow fields of... well, it's a kind of turnip for pigs actually, and doesn't smell all that nice.

I have to confess, I cheated on this photo, cropping a large chunk of truck that got into the picture while I was working on it.

 

[SummerMorning]

Inside the monastery seen two photos back.

 

[SummerMorning]

A plaster hand holding INRI.

 

[SummerMorning]

And a statue in a castle garden.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Pricate Srpski? Hrvatski? Bulgarski?

 

[SummerMorning]

Pricam malo slabi srpski, malo vec hrvatski.

 

[LadyJeanne]

Drago mi je! Pricam malo Srpski, vise Makedonski, i malo Bulgarski.

Vasi slike su ljepi. Imas jos?

 

[LadyJeanne]

Drago mi je! Pricam malo Srpski, vise Makedonski, i malo Bulgarski.

Vasi slike su ljepi. Imate jos?

 

[SummerMorning]

Pa imam, imam - ali nije lako ovdje kazati slike - premalo prostora!

 

[cantdog]

Inside the monastery seen two photos back.

What on earth does one do with a large interior space like that? I, of course, not being the sort to live in a monastery, would walk across the flags, feel the air, hear the space, the echo of my footfalls, and be impressed into quietude.

But surely the residents must do something there? Sing? Dance Sir Roger?

 

[SummerMorning]

Just imagine, 9 cistercian monks and about 3,000 square meters of living space...

 

[cantdog]

Enough for two squares and a caller.

I expect becoming a Cistercian wasn't a very popular thing for some time in that part of the world. The imams in central asia are finding that the traditions of Islam are difficult to maintain after a couple of generations when no young people participate or grow up in them; possibly the monks have the same experience.