I hope you find joy in the great things of life – but also in the little things. A flower, a song, a butterfly on your hand.
Ellen Levine
Archive for January, 2016
Filed under Gardens
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
10 Comments CherryPie on Jan 31st 2016
Filed under Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
The Dragon Bridge
Located just beyond the market’s eastern boundary the Dragon Bridge was the first major Art Nouveau project to be built in the city. Designed by the architect Jurij Zaninovic, it was built in 1901 to mark the 60th birthday of Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef I. The bridge gets its name from the bronze dragons that [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Jan 29th 2016
Filed under Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Be Afraid…
…there be Dragons!!
12 Comments CherryPie on Jan 28th 2016
Filed under Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Butchers’ Bridge
The old city of Ljubljana lies alongside the river Ljubljianca which is noted for its many bridges. One of the more recent additions is Butchers’ Bridge.
The construction of a bridge with the same name, Butchers’ Bridge, was planned already in the late 1930s by the architect Jože Plečnik. According to his plans, the bridge was to [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Jan 27th 2016
Filed under Anecdotes, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
Shoes on High
As I walked around Ljubljana I noticed (what to me) was an unusual sight of shoes dangled across overhead cables and wires. I had never seen anything like it before and was curious to find out why they had been placed in that way. My searches have not revealed how or when this behavior started [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jan 26th 2016
Filed under This & That
Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
It is good to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all the shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.
James Douglas
6 Comments CherryPie on Jan 24th 2016
