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]