Pula is for me the nearest city. Only about ten kilometers from Medulin, the small town in which I live.
Pula is a city with a long, dynamic history and some spectacular ancient buildings left by the Roman Empire. I showed some of that historic stuff in about a dozen old posts and I'll surely show more in the future, but right now, in the present, here in this post, you won't see that.
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Today I drove to the city and visited some friends that live in Veruda, one of the suburban neighborhoods between the old town and the resort areas on the coast. We had a few drinks indoors, in a small apartment situated in one of the buildings shown in the above photograph, and then we took a walk around the block.
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The street sweeper was smoking the cigarette in a cool pose. The scene perfectly encapsulates the atmosphere of the quiet cloudy Sunday with just a few people out in the streets.
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Ghostly mannequins watched us from one of the storefront windows.
In my superficial estimation, about half of all the trees in the city are deciduous. Dead leaves in shades of brown and yellow are constantly falling these days.
In some places, the displaced foliage is forming lovely autumnal patterns down on the ground. In this case, as you can observe in the above photograph, the visual appeal of the pattern was enhanced by the metal grid.
Here you can take a look at one of the nearby buildings and the evergreen tree in front of it.
Zooming in on that tree revealed another pattern.
I photographed quite a few balcony doors and windows today.
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I'm always inspired by simple geometric shapes and the abundance of details found on these condo facades.
The architecture of these places is made of simple repetitive elements ...
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... but the presence of people and their everyday activities give an individual touch to each cell of the human hive.
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Veruda is much more than the block shown in this post, but I visited only that part, so that's all I can show you today. In the above photograph, you can see some more distant buildings that are also part of that neighborhood. You can also find some elegant old mansions left by the Austro - Hungarian Empire in Veruda, but that's another story ...
... this one ends here. With a simple cartoonish artwork made by an unknown author a couple of years ago.
AND THAT'S IT. AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END.
