Street art?

Enjoying sunshine

[caption id="attachment_2631" align="alignnone" width="660"] Enjoying sunshine[/caption]

Buds

Eclipse as seen from Tirana

[caption id="attachment_2625" align="aligncenter" width="660"] Eclipse as seen from Tirana, 20 March 2015[/caption]

View from balcony

The view from our summer apartment. Shamelessly I'll promote it here as well, in case anyone is visiting Albania this year. https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/5509812

Spring Day - Dita e Veres

Spring Day (we actually call it Summer Day) is celebrated every 14 March in Albania.

According to some sources, Dita e Verës derives from the Arbëreshë, an Albanian community that lives in Italy since the fifteenth century. On 14 March, the Arbëreshë of the Italian coast, collect a tuft of grass roots and soil, bringing it home to commemorate the anniversary of their emigration from Albania. In fact, some sources date back this celebration to the ancient Illyria. At that time, the feast was celebrated on 1 March, which according to the Julian calendar, corresponded to the first day of the year.

Headrest

[caption id="attachment_2611" align="alignnone" width="660"] Headrest[/caption]

Friendship

And so, a new friendship was born...

A new member in our family

[caption id="attachment_2604" align="alignnone" width="660"] A new member in our family[/caption]

My father found this little fella in the garden of the restaurant he works for. I doubt it came from the kitchen, they don't serve rabbit meat and second, it looks like only a couple of weeks old. After a quick search online we concluded that the rabbit makes a good pet actually. It's quite clean and low maintenance. Being so white we decided to find a short name for it, something like snowball or similar. And so we ended up naming him Yuki which means snow in Japanese. How we reach at that name is another story, perhaps I'll share it in another post :)

A photo of a photo

[caption id="attachment_2596" align="alignnone" width="660"] A photo of a photo[/caption]

My father taking a photo of me climbing the watchtower.