more lomo

Here's some more lomo for you, from outside and from inside.

And a beautiful song.

Have a great weekend;

it's spring already!

true blue

From a cross-processed roll of slide film the Lomo LC-A that went a bit crazy.
Poblenou and lots of sunshine.

The photos are from some months ago, but the sky today looks quite similar, cross-processed or not.

How are you doing? I have to get back to working on my school project these days, but there are so many other (and nicer) things coming my way...I have to get better at multitasking!

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lately...

...the light has been so good during these last weeks, outside and especially in our home. I am really grateful for that, as there has been lots of work for school; many days barely getting up from my desk. When there's light it's not so bad.

Right now I have an ugly cold and winter seems to have arrived. It was supposed to snow today, but for now nothing's happened. Everybody's talking about the last time it snowed, remembering the exact day (8 march 2010)...it's really something extraordinary here.

My parents are coming for dinner tonight; after 6 months in the new place we finally got a table! I'm making pumpkin with chickpeas and basmati rice, and carrot cake; from recipes by my two best British friends, Nigel Slater and Dan Lepard. Stupid detail: with my congested nose I can't taste anything today...

I hope you're fine and wish you a nice weekend. Will you send me some snow if there is any where you are?

my neighbourhood 2

my neighbourhood

Some of the many photos taken on walks through my new neighbourhood in the last months.

I don't get tired of the things I see, and the light has been changing so much during these last weeks.
Buildings and sites do actually change, too, because they continue to tear buildings down and build new ones.

Luckily, because of the economical problems, they have slowed down a lot. Many "emptied" plots remain empty.

I can't imagine how it would have been to see all the millions of changes this area went through during the last years.

They have destroyed so much. But still, for me right now it's the best this city has.


PS: a pretty advent calendar.

Poble Sec

Today I take you on a walk through Poble Sec, one of my favourite neighbourhoods located at the feet of Montjuïc. It grew as a residential and industrial area at the end of the 19th century, outside the town walls.
No idea why it's called "sec" though, which means dry.

Where it touches the Paral.lel it has the traits of a small Eixample. But if you go up the streets, beyond the Passeig de l'Exposició, the streets are deserted and the houses look like in a village, tiny, with their gardens and old trees.

I love to discover these little corners where the city remains untouched. They sometimes cure me from the feeling that Barcelona has lost so much of its loveliness in the last years, at least for a while.

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· I like these.

· These are two perfect summer images to me.

· I really want to go for a dip in the sea (I know, it shouldn't be so difficult with the beach right around the corner), mainly because I have a new bathing suit (by surprise; my mother bought it for herself but it didn't fit her).

· A great looking home (via Astrid).