And I miss rainy days

July has come to its end, and there is only month of summer left. I miss rainstorms, it's too hot in the city, and I spend a lot of time at home, where I can at least turn the air conditioner on. I guess my little trees (an oak and several firs) aren't happy, either. I've been planning a large trip for August, and I hope that everything will happen as I want, but right now I feel a little ill and also I have a headache, and all my future plans don't seem so bright..

Barcelona, pt. II

I've finally decided to post the rest of the mobile photos from my Barcelona trip. Tottaly forgot about the rest, shame on me..

All those amazing bakeries around the city - I enjoyed baguettes, croissants, pies, sandwiches and other tasty things!

A beautiful romantic square in the middle of the Old city - the light was perfect, coming through the leaves of big acacias, and the the wind blew and the petals started falling down, like a snow. Oh.

Barcelona, pt. I

I've had a little trip to Barcelona not so long ago (18-26 of June). I went there almost right after my birthday. I wouldn't say that it's the best place I've ever been to, but there were interesting places and people worth knowing. I've shot two and a half rolls of film there - not much, but at least something. I haven't developed and scanned them yet, so I thought I'd share some snapshots from my mobile (it's becomes a tradition - first time was with Saint-Petersburg).

I've had a connecting flight to Barcelona, with a short stop at Munich.
This man was sitting in the street with this wonderful musical box, ingenious and charming.

Dreams burn down

Skywave - Echodrone

This is an amazing album by Skywave, released in 1999. It's a mixture of shoegaze and noise pop/rock, with a nice lo-fi sound. Like a dreamy wind from the past, like a casette player with a battery running low.. I've been listening to it for a few weeks, and I love it. They also have another album, 'Synthstatic', but I liked this one more. Here are three songs to enjoy:

Got That Feeling


Sixteen


All I Had

L'ombres de l'eau

Aime-moi comme je suis

St. Petersburg, pt. II

Here is the second part of St. Petersburg mobile snapshots.

There's more about this beautiful building here.

St. Petersburg, pt. I

I'm not a good blogger. Also, I'm not very good at writing, so I'd better just post some photographs.

I've been to St.Petersburg for three weeks, from March 18th to April 7th. I thought I'd go just for a few days, so I didn't have much stuff with me, including cameras. So, these were taking with my mobile phone, forgive me.

The weather was changing from sunny to snow all the time.

It's about uncertainty

The weather is so unsteady today - it was sunny when I went out in the afternoon, then I spent 20 minutes in the underground to get to the center, and when I got to the surface, it was snowing already. I nearly ran to the hairdresser's to meet my friend (partly because I was late, but mostly because freezing cold wind was getting under my coat, making me shiver). As I was sitting there, the sun hid and showed several times.

I got a haircut and some color refreshment after my friends, he waited for me and after all manipulations were done, we went to a café. It was nice to be with someone, once in a while. I'm not a very social person, and I spend most of my time with myself, but sometimes I crave some company and a little chat.

When I got home in the evening and went for a walk with our dog, the sky almost cleared out again, and I could even see the stars among the clouds, especially Capella in the west, which was amazingly bright today (it's the third brightest star in the northern celestial hemisphere).

It's still chilly, but I feel the spring - it's not only in the calendar, but also in the wind, in birds' chirping and all those little details one can't help but notice, if has at least some attention to the surroundings.

A photograph from July 2011