Strange Times Of My Life

It kind of stagnating vacuum in my life. Feels like the wheel is turning but it bumping into obstacles & continues with holes in tires. I feels funny even while I'm writing this.

This winter times in Croatia were the warmest ever that I could remember & the spring came in so fast speeding up all the natural processes of fungi, plants & animals - & people accordingly.

The Devil Always Watching

The Devil is always here by my side waiting for me stumble.

This about the Devil is more a joke than me taking it seriously. The goat is the symbol of the most extraordinary beautiful region of Croatia & I would dare to say Europe too. The goat is a symbol of the Devil too. Strange coincidence. But anyway I don't believe in the dualistic spiritual/religious philosophy dividing good from evil cause there is only One God with numerous names. This supreme being, the creator of all worlds is also a destroyer of all of It's creations.

Beauties Of The Natural Cycles

Every spring for many years I've been catching the rhythm of natural cycles trying to live accordingly. There are few activities that I do in the springtime: hunting morels and other mushrooms, exploring new morel habitats & expanding my knowledge about them, picking wild asparagus along with morels & wild bear's onion too & learning about other edible wild plants & mushrooms of the springtime...

My friend left me her van to take care off while she was traveling Costa Rica & Spain & magnolia was fully flowering.

In springtime I also start with planting the garden & cropping fruit trees for whoever needs my help & is ready to pay.

*I also tried to organize recreational basketball but I ended up playing with myself."

While exploring new morel habitats & hunting in the known areas, I often carry a machete to cut myself the way through the bushes.

In one of the villages I visited while exploring new morel habitats, I encountered this old way of preserving dry grass for cattle. It is a very rare sight nowadays in the costal North-west of Croatia.

Except the machete, I always carry this hunting knife which handle is a bit broken so I was planning to repair it with a real dear horn.

A happy moment when finding a new morel habitat and already picked a bit in the basket along with the elm seeds next to man made water well in the middle of the forest.

Flowers

Flowers always deserve to get some special attention!

This yellow beauty I discovered along with another morel habitat. I never found out what kind of species it is.

The next 3 photos show 2 different species of Croatian orchids. I always find them on the same or similar habitats to those of morels.

*I never imagined that acacia flowers can so beautiful too!"

Some More Of Me

I finnaly repaired the sunglasses.

I was also participating in some self-help practicies like this gong therapy.

A Croatian star singer was performing in my hometown & surprisingly we look quite similar!

I have always been a crazy eccentric!

Avocado

Avocado is definitely not the domestic species in Croatia but my hometown Opatija has a very special microclimate which allows many tropical plant to grow & give fruit here. In the next 2 shots you can see 3 more trees of avocado that I discovered growing in different gardens in Opatija. I'm so happy about it!

Seapool

This is one of my favorite sea places in Rovinj. I keep it a secret. It has a natural sea pool in which one lay to cool down instead of swimming of the rocks. Incredible!

Work

A new art-photo project with Pasha, Ugandan singer married to a Croatian guy. More of this coming soon!

Shaved & dressed in a shirt & a suit trying to get a job as an exclusive driver to rich tourist but refused by the limited boss saying my dreadlocks are the problem.

My sister having an exhibition of her paintings & helping her set it up. We made a great job!

Private Land Finally

My mother inherited some land in Baška so I cut the high grass & started using it actively.

I didn't even know that a mulberry tree was growing on my mother's land so I was picking the fruits for the first time ever.

It feels so good to be parked on my mother's land.

First camping & cooking on my mother's land.

Mushrooms & Medicinal Plants

I decided to hunt more the rare mushrooms than those which everyone knows & pick often. I was lucky this springtime to catch some goat foot mushrooms which are a real delicacy!