Weekly Photo Challenge: Depth

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Depth.”

Descending deep into the Tbilisi Metro

Like most ex-Soviet Metros, the stations are very deep and vividly decorated.

Beasts of Burden

Older British cars that have survived may be cared for and cosseted, older Soviet cars are used as daily beasts of burden with heavy duty roof racks to carry heavy loads.

GAZ Volga 24

Moskvitch 412

Laden Lada

Maize

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My Following on Twitter is Growing…

At Sadguris Moedani (Station Square) I heard a twittering above me and saw all these sparrows in a tree.

These sparrows I spotted while waiting for a bus at Liberty Square in Tbilisi.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Express Yourself

In response to The Daily Post’s weekly photo challenge: “Express Yourself.”

I have many different ideas for “express yourself”: flowers laid in memory of 9 April 1989, an artist with his work, an irate taxi driver, my granddaughter Ana expressing her creativity with Lego, a swallow expressing itself in its call, some neighbours launching a fire heart into the air to express their love , a girl unable to express herself like her friends having no smartphone to hand and me expressing myself with these images (my take on the world).

There are many ways to express yourself:

Express your sorrow with flowers:

Flowers expressing sorrow at the tragedy of 9 April 1989.

2. Express yourself through art (I’ve seen lots of other entries depicting arts and crafts like this one Joy)…

Artist Antonio Guerrero with his artworks.

3. Express your anger, the red mist, through expressions, hand gestures and bad language:

A taxi driver expressing himself when someone takes his parking space…luckily you don’t hear his words just witness his expression.

4. Express yourself creatively:

Ana expressing herself with Lego

5. Express yourself in song:

A Swallow Expressing Itself

6. Express your love with a dramatic gesture:

Launching a fire heart to express love

Express yourself…you don’t need a smartphone to do it…

No smartphone…no comment

Tbilisi, a city of contrasts

A new Wendy’s has opened in Chavchavadze Street…in front of an old church…an interesting juxtaposition of old time spirituality and a modern fast food franchise…

Sparrows on a branch

Sparrows on a branch

I had to crouch down to get this shot so they would be silhouetted against a grey sky and not a messy background of buildings.

sparrow

…and here a single sparrow isolated by cropping from his friends on Twitter 😉

A quote about teachers.

“Rarely will you meet anyone so jealous as a teacher. Year after year students tumble along like the waters of a river. They flow away, and only the teacher is left behind, like some deep buried rock at the bottom of the current. Although he may tell others of his hopes, he doesn’t dream of them himself.”

The Woman in the Dunes by Kobo Abe

Winter’s Morning in Tbilisi

First frosty morning of the Winter, January 20. Everything runs a little late in Georgia.

Frosty leaves

Morning Sun

St George’s Column and Statue of Kartlis Deda at Tavisuplebis Moedani

Weekly Photo Challenge: Serenity (II)

Zen masters of serenity, I came across this pair of felines in a busy marketplace, completely unperturbed about the hustle and bustle around them.

Zen and the art of serenity

Serenity