Wednesday, February 21, 2007

bosnia i hercegovina i hrvatska

While down in the lowlands, the crops are all coming;
we have everything.

Life is thundering blissful towards death
in a stampede
of his fumbling green gentleness
-Joanna Newsom, "Only skin"


catakomben
[Jajce, Bosnia, January 2007]

snowcapped mountains get me every time
[Jajce, Bosnia, January 2007]

i cant explain to you how strange it is to listen to the call to prayer while looking out on a scene like this. i've certainly never been somewhere like bosnia.
[Jajce, Bosnia, January 2007]

yes, the stari most (brace yourself)
[Mostar, Hercegovina, January 2007]

a more dramatic scene
[Mostar, Hercegovina, January 2007]

and yet more dramatic. its like a frickin' dostoevsky novel
[Mostar, Hercegovina, January 2007]

my first view of the old town
[Dubrovnik, Croatia, January 2007]

the harbor. i wish there were a way to take a picture of it, but i could see sea urchins on the bottom 15 ft down.
[Dubrovnik, Croatia, January 2007]

men in the harbor. just like every other night
[Dubrovnik, Croatia, January 2007]

the sun and walls
[Dubrovnik, Croatia, January 2007]

the best spot in town. just outside the walls, on the rocks above the adriatic
[Dubrovnik, Croatia, January 2007]

a church at sunset
[Dubrovnik, Croatia, January 2007]

a tower and the wall at sunset
[Dubrovnik, Croatia, January 2007]

cliffs on the way back to the hostel
[Dubrovnik, Croatia, January 2007]

sunset
[Dubrovnik, Croatia, January 2007]

a typical view from the back of the ferry
[Somewhere between Dubrovnik and Split, Croatia, January 2007]

a few minutes' walk from my hostel in pula. yes, this is what i was looking for all along
[Pula, Croatia, January 2007]

1 comment:

RF said...

hey, i think maybe there's a problem with your photos? blogger's working ok so that must be it, right? it's not all of them, just most.

but anyway, dostoevsky? dramatic? only if you mean INSIDE SOMEONE'S TORTURED SOUL. in that case yes.