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myFlower

2007-06-25T10:43:00.000+03:00

Actually my flower is a Bee. Well, not really a Bee, but this is how I call my girl. She has the name of a flower, Brandusa, a pretty and simple flower, just like her. But the flower from below it's not a Brandusa. The sad part is that i don't even know the name of this flower, but it's a pretty one. The location of this photo is in the heart of Transylvania (ya, that Transylvania, land of Dracula) near my hometown, where there is a small but beautiful forest.

In the spring, the forest gets loaded with beautiful flowers. But what I like most, is the contrast between the old brown leafs, and the new green of the fresh grass emerging like a rocket from the ground.

And since I mentioned my Bee, here's how my cute and beautiful princess looks as a flower :)

Those are Branduse (plural of Brandusa), or Crocus in English, a flower found mostly in the mountains (at least here in Romania) or in the sub alpines forests. Romania is loaded with beautiful and good smelling flowers, we have lots of fields full with sexy flowers. It's enough to take a small ride outside of any town and you'll see (mostly in spring) endless fields colored with a large variety of flowers.

Photos taken near Reghin (Violins city) in Padurea rotunda (Round forest).

MyBoat

2007-02-13T01:09:00.000+02:00

Well folks, long time no see. I've been very busy latelly, but I still got the chance to shoot some pictures. This summer I was on a short vacation on our beautiful seaside, The Black Sea. But more on that a little bit later. Now, I wanna tell you something about the pride of Costinesti (the place where u cand find most of the young tourists), the Evanghelia wrek. In the late 60's, becauze of the poor visibility and ungly weather, the boat got to close of the Costinesti's shore. The captain thought he's close to Constanta, but actually, he was more close to a V shape cliff. Becauze of the enourmous costs of putting it back to the water, Aristotel Onassis (it was his boat) decided that it is better to leave it there, and so, Evanghelia became a national simbol for the romanian seaside. And believe it or not, I was there also and I was almost a stept away from not comming back.....well, sort of :). But about this adventure, in another post comming soon :).

myPalace

2006-02-01T22:24:00.000+02:00

Not far away from Snagov, there's another beautiful and peacefull place. Near a smal lake lies Bracoveanu's Palace wich is an architectural monument that combines Wallachian and Byzantine decorative features with traits characteristics of the Italian Renaissance. The palace was build between 1698 -1702 by Constantin Brancusi (a famous Romanian Voivode) for his son, Stefan and even if it was destroyed after his death, transformed into an In and forgotten, now it rises more beautiful than ever.
And the soroundings? Aaaaa, now there's a place were I can live :)

myLake

2006-01-31T23:50:00.000+02:00

Now I'm gonna brag a little bit. This one is taken near the Snagov lake. This place is well know as a "pool" for the richest guys in Bucharest and maybe Romania too. I have a Godfather who lives there and from what I've seen, his "vila" was the smallest one. Anyway, I spent there a awsome week-end. I was feeling like a king in his beautiful country.
P.S. I was with the boat too on that lake :)

myTree

2006-01-25T20:35:00.000+02:00

This is the first time when I see something like this (of course, we're still at Lobogo, from the previous post). The process is simple: u take a tree, a near by river and a prety long hose. You put one enf of the hose in the river and the other end above the tree and u let the water to spray the tree for 2-3 days, and there u go. You have a cristal frozen tree. Ah, I forgot to mention the golden rule: wait until the tempereature is below 0 degree Celcius :)

mySnow

2006-01-11T00:42:00.000+02:00

I had a great week-end near Homorod, at Lobogo hotel, in a beautiful place with an awsome weather. It was full of perfectlly white snow. It was a dream, a fantasy, a fairy tale, but also seemed very real becauze I felt almost every snowflake that came from above. Of course, that is not true, but sometimes, I like to dream, and what perfect place for doing so is this. Just take a look and see for yourself. Or even better: get on the firts train and head to Harghita County (where Homorod is) and feel it for yourself.

mySorrow

2005-10-24T23:36:00.000+03:00

Isn't this amazing? My only sorrow for this one here is that I took this picture from the car, and sadlly, the quality of the picture is not the one I had in mind, but anyway, I know that this kind of scenery can be seen all over the world, but don't you feel like you can watch this every day? I know that I'm not tired of seeing and admiring Nature's wonders.

myView

2005-10-13T19:05:00.000+03:00

I hope that it wont get boring with my experience in Brasov, cauze this photo is also taken that time. But this time is from above the Tampa hill, near the Brasov. It's not very high (only 957 meters above the sea level), but still a pretty nice view you've got from up there. I guess i could stay the entire week-end and still not getting enough. But for now, you can admire the Town and the soriundings if you take a look at all the pictures taken on that trip. Enjoy...

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ourBlack Church

2005-10-10T22:25:00.000+03:00

This is The Black Church from Brasov, the largest Gothic church in Romania and within the territory between Vienna and Istanbul. It's an impressive church, at least for me. I've seen it only twhice (since now) but it kept me breathless each time, and i'm sure it will be the same for me every time I will see it. I did't get the time to attend to an orga concert, but i made a promiss to myself that soon i will.
This time, i was on a small week-end trip to see an old Romania festival: The Golden Stag festival held there, in Brasov . This festival of pop music, it's from times when even I wasn't born yet. After the revolution in 1989, the festival didn't took place for a while, but I remeber clearly, that when it came back (I was still a child), Kylie Minogue was on concert in one night. And what a concert it was. I've seen it on TV, but now, when she's much more famous, i'm proud that we have her here in Romania. This year was also special, cauze we had live on stage a super girl: Natalie Imbruglia, and a super man: Joe Coker. Rainy days and cloudy skys didn't kept the people away and the show was awsome. Next year, it will be.....well, we will see, and untul then, the church will take care of the old city of Brasov and all the misteryes inside.

not myPicture

2005-08-24T22:44:00.000+03:00

I don't have any words for this one. It's on my desktop and i'm enjoying it every day. Actually this picture wasn't take it by me. One morning, when i was too sleepy and tired for any kind of activity, my friend took the camera and went on a smal trip to Rasnoave's Cave, near Poiana Brasov. This is the first part of the trip. The rest is a little bit more wild and beautiful. It looks like this time, heaven is trying to invade this small road, or maybe trying to lead the way to the darkness of the cave. Paradoxically, isn't it? The light leading the way to the darkness.
It's interesting how nature is teaching us some of the reality's of this life: first, there's the light, and then....darkness can fall upon us and it's up to us to find the light again. It's a continous battle in nature, and so is in us too. I guess. Too bad that i can't find my words in english, but i hope that u still can get the ideea, or U can just admire this piece of heaven on earth.

myRainy week-end

2005-08-22T21:19:00.000+03:00

Well, we had a cloudy week-end a few weeks ago, but it didn't matter for us on this trip to Ibanesti (small mountain village). Rain or sun, it didn't stopped us to try and have some fun. The clouds tryed pretty convincing to scare us as they get closer and closer and closer. One time, the thunder "whispered" something right in our ear, and after that the "war" begun. It was puring with whater! Getting out was equivalent with going to swim. But the scenery was worth it. Believe me.
U have to see both side of the "story" to really enjoy it.
U can only appreciate life when u know the good and the bad, the sun and the clouds, the dry and the wet.
We were closer to the clouds than ever, and we've love it.

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myInvader

2005-08-19T21:00:00.000+03:00

The sun is trying to invade this beautiful valey (of the river Mures), as we're heading towards our resort: Toplita, small town but with a beautiful and peacefull placed swimming pool. Big swiming pool with 26 degree water temperature. This is were we spent our week-end.

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myFirst post

2005-08-19T20:18:00.000+03:00

Just started to blog around here. Not much i think, just some pictures of my trips, but not only...so..stay tooned. I hope you'll see some real Romania, beautiful and surprising.