Different kind of baby
The sun finally broke through and my relatives finally broke down, begging us to show them something more interesting than the inside of a grocery store. So we dropped the big one off with his sitter to play with a giant basketball-playing M&M, left Magda home with the parasite (”I’ve seen Ljubljana before”), and drove east to the capital via the Roman military ruins at Ad Pirum, invisible under crunchy snow. Then came the inevitable but always entertaining circular tour of Ljubljana’s old center. Playing with the new Lensbaby in nearly every picture:
It was noon when we started in Prešernov trg
They’ve replaced the acid-etched marble figures on the Robbia fountain with pasty-white resin replicas
By half past twelve we were climbing Castle Hill
And a few minutes later were entering the castle
We spent a long time atop the tower, enjoying the sun and looking down at where we’d started
And took
Some pictures of
Rooftops sprinkled with sneg
Descending, ended up at the Dragon Bridge
“That thing is scarier in pictures than in real life,” my sister says
In the public market, we bought raspberries but gawked at fractal vegetables
Passed a famous landmark without pausing for a drink
And ended up back where we’d started
I don’t yet know what I’m doing with that Lensbaby, but am willing to put in some time. Which I have so much of.
Yes, you have so much free time now.
The photos are fantastic and I very badly want a lensbaby now.
Comment by Jane — Saturday 27 January 07 @ 21.39 MST+2.00
“The parasite?” Oy! We need to get you into parental sensitivity training straight away. ;-)
The lensbaby has good potential, I think. Some of the pictures had me squinting and blinking trying to get them into focus, but others were made more intriguing by the peripheral blurriness, like the Dragon Bridge.
I’ve never seen Lubljana in the sun before…very pretty (and bigger than I realized).
Comment by Gwynne — Saturday 27 January 07 @ 22.37 MST+2.00
wtf is a lensbaby?
Comment by Jean — Sunday 28 January 07 @ 09.18 MST+2.00
Lensbabies
Comment by sgazzetti — Sunday 28 January 07 @ 12.29 MST+2.00
Damn! It’s like a camera with cataracts. So, this is how I’ll be looking at the world in my 70’s? Hope the colors stay as brilliant as the ones in your toot around Ljubljana.
Comment by DarkoV — Sunday 28 January 07 @ 20.30 MST+2.00