Rijeka sunrise

These buildings are actually white!  Here they are seen in magic light.  Why are they pinkish-orange?  Is it just magic light?

Rijeka also sunset

The sun goes down and the lights come on

Sunset at Rijeka, Croatia

beautiful cloud formations, seen from our new apartment

The San Giacomo Bar welcomes us to Trieste!

Here are (in order from the left) Franco, Sergio, Livio, Enrico, and Antonella.  They bought us cafes and waters and regaled us in Italian, which we understood pretty well!  Lovely folks. See today's gallery for more pictures of "Where Everyone Knows Your Name."

Just one of the beautiful art pieces at the Museo Revoltella, in Trieste, Italy

It is called Dream of Spring, by Pietro Canonica, 1898

and here is what she is saying, in close-up:  "The mouth keeps silent in order to hear the heart"