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Staro Rīga III
Last photo from the series of this year’s Staro Rīga festival. This building looked very colorful and nice. “The Odyssey of Dreams” it says if I can read it right.
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Staro Rīga II
As I promised yesterday, today one more picture from festival Staro Rīga. They displayed ancient Latvian signs on the roofs of the buildings. The light and music show theme was human life from birth (child’s cry in the beginning) till death (ascending to heaven with the sound of clapping wings of a dove). Truly amazing, you have few more days to get there and see it yourself!
Staro Rīga
For five days we have this amazing light festival called Staro Rīga here. I haven’t seen much of it yet, we are planning to see most of the places and objects on 18th, but yesterday we went to Latvian Etnographic Open Air Museum to see a show that was just amazing! Tomorrow one more picture, stay tuned!
Sabile Wine Hill
One more photo from Sabile vineyard. You can also taste the wine at the entrancee but don’t expect too much of it.
Sabile Wine Hill
This week I visited one of the most interesting places in Latvia - Sabile Wine Hill which is mentioned in Guiness World Records Book as world’s most northern vineyard. It’s a really nice place to walk with a great view over Sabile town, sometimes it seems you are not in Latvia, so untypical is the view.
Ducks Killing Hawks
No, this isn’t some kind of sports team supporters chanting. We have one nice museum in Latvia about Freiherr von Muenchhausen and his unbelievable stories. One of the stories is displayed here - an evidence of a duck taking on a helpless hawk. Poor birdie!
Portrait Of A Dog
There are some geographical photo submission sites where it isn’t allowed to post pictures of pets. Fortunately, this is my own blog and I may post whatever I want. So today I am posting this nice photo which I like very much.
09/09/09
Yesterday was again one of those magical dates - now three nines - 09/09/09. So it was again very popular date for getting married. In the news it was that all times this day were booked long before.
It would be very interesting if someone made statistics after some 20 years - which of the dates turned out to be the luckiest - 07, 08, 09… May be 06?
Anyway - this photo isn’t from yesterday, this is other date, not so popular. But very significant to the people getting married then. Their date!
Grass Snake
We have two kinds of snakes here in Latvia. All other snake lookalikes actually aren’t snakes. This one is not poisonous and is called grass snake. Of course being not poisonous doesn’t hold back people from being scared of it.