IN THE HOUSE AT THE EDGE OF THE CITY

The city in question is Pula. I'll pin the post to the Pinmapple map, so you can see where in the world this place is.

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There is an old house in one of the suburban neighborhoods filled mostly with more recent buildings including a couple of supermarkets and the biggest shopping mall in thee city. In the time when the house was freshly built, it must have been surrounded by fields and farms at the edge of a considerably smaller city. I don't know when exactly that time was, but it was surely before World War II because my friend's grandparents already lived there in that period. It was built as a rural house typical for the villages around the city, but through time, without moving, the house was transported into an urban environment. A friend of mine lives there with her cat. Some weeks ago she went on a trip and was absent seven days, so I became a cat sitter for that week.

Besides taking care of cat food and providing a bit of company to Pepitza - the cat ...

... I was also taking photographs because that is something that I often do 🙂 and because I like the interior of this house very much. The ambient light provided a nice, melancholic atmosphere but some details remained kind of hidden ...

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... so I took also some less atmospheric shots with the built-in flash of my camera on.

Most of the furniture was originally in colors of the wood, in various shades of brown, but my friend added a layer of white to all that stuff ...

... and changed the atmosphere in the old house.

This is a wider view of the house and its surroundings. The frame is filled with the entire street corner. In the following shot ...

... I'm under the roof again. And the flash of my camera is on.

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Here you can see the home-alone cat in one of her favorite places - under the kitchen table.

Here you can see the same scene in the natural light. The shutter speed had to be pretty low, so the always-moving Pepitza got plenty of motion blur on her head.

From this angle, you can see the entrance of the house ...

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... and the Pepitza's food & drink corner.

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In this, pretty wide shot you can see the entrance and the bathroom. I didn't plan to photograph the bathroom on this occasion ...

... but at the end, the bathroom entered the post, because ...

... because I came across this cool little detail in it. Three giraffes, well-camouflaged by the tiles on the bathroom wall. I noticed a vague, but still visible, and kinda funny little parallel with real giraffes that thanks to the bigger versions of those same, net-like patterns are able to hide in their African environment.

The giraffes gave a touch of surrealism to the simple shelf.

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A minute later, I found myself in the bathroom mirror. I was nicely framed, my head was freshly shaved, and the ambient light was pretty good, so I decided to take a selfie. And I took one.

AS ALWAYS IN THESE POSTS ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK - THE END.