Lightning!
Jul 30, 2010 Nature
It’s not that we are now into the stormy season. It’s just that it was very hot for a very long time and now the colder air is coming in and it produces thunderstorms sometimes out of nowhere. This one came in some 15 minutes.
Tags: Latvia, lightning, thunderstorm
Staro Rīga III
Nov 20, 2009 Festival
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.
Tags: Latvia, Riga, Staro Rīga
Staro Rīga II
Nov 17, 2009 Festival
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!
Tags: Latvia, open-air museum, Riga
Staro Rīga
Nov 16, 2009 Festival
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!
Tags: Latvia, open-air museum, Staro Rīga
Ducks Killing Hawks
Sep 12, 2009 Other
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!
Tags: duck, hawk, Latvia, Muenchhausen
Portrait Of A Dog
Sep 11, 2009 Other
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
Sep 10, 2009 Daily Life
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
Aug 13, 2009 Other
Another photo of the same grass snake I posted here yesterday.
Tags: grass snake, Latvia
Grass Snake
Aug 12, 2009 Nature
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.
Tags: grass snake, Latvia
Blue Cornflowers
Aug 10, 2009 Nature
We don’t call them cornflowers in Latvian, we call them rye-flowers because they grow mostly in rye fields. Very nice and romantic flowers.
Tags: cornflower, Latvia, rye