Dr. Filomena

Guest photo by: PhotoPy

This is a guest photographer’s photo of a ‘great tit‘ (“velika sinica” in Slovenian language), enhanced with PhotoShop. I hope you enjoy the effect.

This sand lizard (in Slovenia, we call them “martinček”, i.e. “little martins”) was spotted at the seaside hunting for insects on a tent roof while we were fixing (Joan and Ian will cringe, haha) dinner underneath.

Adriaan picked the song:

To my cat fancy friends: I wasn’t really going to go ahead with any breedings this season as I have other priorities that need taking care of and not enough time to dedicate to the fancy, but Chuchi and Diablo saw fit to surprise me with this little package of purring joy.

This perky little Back to Black edition of the classic Persian model was produced by Kuorii El Diablo of Planika (black male out of CH Melositos Mr. European Gay x D’Eden Lover Eclipse of Kuorii) and GC Planika La Vie En Rose (tortie smoke out of Digit Unfer x CH Planika Larifari). I like to name my cats after songs and preferably keep them in connection with the parents’ names. This was going to be a tough one, but Xavi’s Godfather came through again with the perfect name. So, here comes the mischievous Slovenian goblin

Planika Perkmandeljc

Dušan Kastelic, the creator of the international award-winning Orlek music video below, explains: Perk (short for Perkmandeljc) is a mine-goblin and well-known and respected resident of our town /Trbovlje/. In my early days, parents often threatened me: “Perkmandeljc will take you in his hole like the other naughty children.” Read more about the video here.

I can’t miss out on a chance to thank Paolo Carnevaletti of Kuorii Persians here for his incredible generosity in sharing the kittens’ father with me. The baby says ciao, salut and hola to the breeders of his immediate ancestors (Paolo, Frederic and Sergio) 🙂

Sunset

Today’s bonus post is courtesy of two guests.

Photos by: Froglet
Choice of Music by: Adriaan

Enjoy.

Safe Harbour

Xavi’s first shot

Some of you will know exactly what I mean when I say I love Nikki (one of) my object(s) of desire. Recently, she got a baby brother. It’s ever so nice to see the family grow. I’m happy to say that Nikki and Xavi go together well and there has been no jealousy as of yet.

Xavi’s arrival was a big surprise and although he was truly a desired baby and on my mind for over a year now (ok, so Nikki’s got him beat there by say 15 years), he was a gift from… 🙂 I never figured wishlists worked. I set up one on this blog and entered the sleek compact Canon Ixus 800 IS.

And Lo and Behold, there came the camera all the way from England, carried by a special friend. Adriaan, thank you so very much! It was your birthday, you know! 🙂

Having come from the UK, Xavi took a while getting adjusted to the way our cameras drink their juice, but as soon as he was fed properly (thanks to the man who also named him), he started doing his thing. Above is his very first photo… my dear colleague and friend without whose help at the office I couldn’t do half the things I do, and I couldn’t do them half as well.

With gratitude to Adriaan, I am now thinking I should never have stopped writing up wishlists for Santa. And I wonder if someday Xavi will have to deal with being the middle child 😉 We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it, eh?

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What may look like an ugly fly trying to end its miserable life in a glass of Shiraz to one person, may be a fascinating creature to another.

Similarly, sometimes the ugliest little worm may blossom into a conventional beauty. Case in point being this tiny thing photographed just a few hundred metres from the red-eyed fly. Apply a touch of make-up, a blue gown, add some butter and here’s what you get:

(Red Wine is Hard to Resist)

I found this poor thing drowing in a glass of excellent red wine and decided to help it out.

Guess where it went as soon as it licked its wings dry:

Oooh red red wine…

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive.
(Sir Walter Scott)

A couple of weeks ago, while waiting for Mattie and Dilys, I took a photo of Peter Božič at Prešeren square in the centre of Ljubljana. At the time, Pengovsky mentioned the special relationship between Božič and Miha Jazbinšek. As it turns out, the mountain came to me and I didn’t have to set up a spy camp in downtown Ljubljana as popular as that may have been up until recently.

I was about to order my cocktail at klub300, enjoying the company of Adriaan and our lawyer friend when we noticed Jazbi (Slovene 101: jazbec = badger) sipping his beer and very involved in a debate with his company. Seeing as I haven’t invested into a telephoto lens yet (and actually nikki was left home), I walked up to them with Adriaan’s compact and asked for permission to take a picture at not much of a surprise to the camera’s owner, the lawyer however announced she would deny any association with me. But hey, this badger is a ‘stari maček’ (Slovene 101: stari maček = old cat = old hand) and had no problem having his threemillionfivehundredthirtytwothousandtwentysecond picture taken. So here you go. I still have to do the face-off pic. Soon…

Thanks for the lovely evening, you guys and thanks for being cool about the pic, Jazbi. Oh and the sex on the beach was great, as well.