VERUDA & VERUDELA

Just like yesterday, I spent a couple of morning hours in the city of Pula today. After buying some stuff, and visiting some offices, I drove to the marina on the outskirts of Pula and took a walk like a winter tourist.

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In this post, you'll see a bunch of photographs taken in two suburban neighborhoods. One of them, called Veruda, consists mostly of block condos and modestly tall high-rise buildings, while the other one, called Verudela, is a seaside area with big hotels and other tourism-related stuff.

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Here you can see a portrait of a lady on one of the balconies in Veruda.

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As I'm zooming out ...

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... the small human figure becomes an almost invisible part of the fairly large building.

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In one pretty poetic moment, a seagull flew by the balcony and ended up frozen in time, here in the photograph.

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Here you can take one last look at the suburban block buildings of Veruda. With the following photograph ...

... the post will change the mood and setting. These small but lovely Erodium malacoides flowers were photographed in Verudela.

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On the lawn between the street and the marina.

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The marina is called Bunarina. It's pretty large and crowded with all kinds of small to medium-sized recreational boats.

Here you can take a look at the part of the lawn that has a bunch of yellow Hypochaeris radicata flowers on display.

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Here you can see a portrait of a red leaf that looks almost like a flower surrounded by green ones. The leaves of the Erodium cicutarium plant create lovely patterns on the ground, especially when the leaves that had become red due to the stressful winter temperatures enter the mix. In the following photograph ...

... you can take a look at the scenery across the bay in which Bunarina is situated.

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Here I zoomed in on the distant church. The Church of Saint Nicholas is a modern temple, built in 2001. The work started in 1999 and was finished two years later. I had the opportunity to see some very boring and uninspired modern churches in my life, but this one is different. I like this piece of architecture very much. Is simple and elegant. And it resembles a ship, which is pretty cool for a church in the coastal area. This church is part of the suburban settlement called Pjescana Uvala, which literally means Sandy Cove. In the following photograph ...

... the focus is down on the ground again.

These tiny blue flowers ...

... belong to the Myosotis ramosissima plant.

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Here you can take another look at the Erodium malacoides plant introduced earlier in the post. Not far from the lawn on which I was photographing these herbaceous plants ...

... just across the street and a parking lot from there, a truck and the excavator were busy around some decorative trees and shrubs.

I'm not sure about the leaves shown in this photograph. I mean, I can't confidently say which plant they belong to. It could be the Stellaria media. Maybe.

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The tennis courts weren't far from where I was standing. You can see two of them in this photograph.

In some places, the Erodium malacoides leaves were displayed in a nice mix of red and green.

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I had plenty of fun portraiting the wild plants on the lawn. After taking this photograph ...

... I pointed my camera toward Veruda and zoomed in on one of the high-rise buildings of that neighborhood that started the post.

AND THAT'S IT. IT WAS A FAIRLY SHORT WALK, SO THE POST CAN'T BE VERY LONG EITHER. AS ALWAYS HERE ON HIVE, THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MY WORK.

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