Let's take a walk, carefully avoiding the color along the way. In today's post, I'm about to show you some scenes from a few places I visited last year, and I'll present those scenes in black & white. That's it. A generic, relatively lazy post with some photographs. Black and white photograph. Now, I know that stating that the photographs are black and white after it has already been said that it's about some black-and-white scenes, and the title mentions monochrome scenery, may seem unnecessary, but things aren't always as they seem. In this case, however, they are. I'm not working on the quality of the text here; my goal is to reach a certain number of words that would make the post look like hard work, which it clearly isn't. ![](https://i.ecency.com/DQmfXPzXikk7NQgQAh1FhQEnaDcr1LNvZJgbgm4s7JAZN4W/img_8673_malo.jpg) Here you can see a brain walking on its own two legs? Where is it going? I don't know. This is a place near the sea. There is a beach bar nearby, so maybe that's the brain's final destination. That seems like a smart decision on a hot summer day. But the photograph was taken in winter, when the weather is relatively cold, and beach bars are closed until spring. Most of them open at Easter. My brain, right now, doesn't feel too well. It kinda hurts while searching for the words to extend this vacuous post into something seemingly elaborate. There is a lesson here. Avoiding hard work can be pretty hard. There is quite a bit of work involved in it, so let's show a bit of admiration for all those unsung heroes who tend to work that way.

(Enlargeable) Here you can see some buildings in Pula. Pula is a city. Many Romanians probably find that fact funny, but it really is. It has some buildings, trees, roads, pigeons, and some other stuff. You know, the urban stuff. This monochrome scene shows one of the smaller squares in the historic center of the city. ![](https://i.ecency.com/DQmNjBodmPG5cnGLdW5j3becdxvVv2GQrXF3ZituYBAwatT/img_0382_malo.jpg) Here you can see a flower. The scientific name of the plant is Anemone hortensis. It blooms very early in spring. It's also very common here in my area. The sea anemones are also very common, but they are under the water. I mean, most of them are always underwater, but those in the tidal pools aren't submerged when the tide is low. Did you ever eat a sea anemone? It's good. It resembles a fried squid when you fry it in the pan. Just remove the tentacles and fry the rest. I mean, I don't know if that applies to any of the many sea anemone species (probably not), but the brown sea anemones that live in the intertidal zone here, where I live, are perfectly edible. Unlike the sea anemones, the Anemone hortensis shown in the above photograph can cause some problems if ingested. Severe gastrointestinal distress, burning or blistering of the mouth and throat, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea - stuff like that. The sea anemone, with its tentacles, can look more threatening at first sight, but the lovely flower of the Anemone hortensis can be a more serious threat to humans. I suggest you eat the processed junk food becouse nature is complicated and weird.

(Enlargeable) This is a scenery near the town of Motovun, a litlle less than a hundred kilometers from where I live. It's a nice place. A series of narrow valleys between small hills. The fog is quite common in those valleys, especially early in the morning, even in the hot, dry summer months. ![](https://i.ecency.com/DQmP8y8b8h7gdpeRLej5khdRYqRWgtswAgWCULbX1dYLQsG/img_8018_malo.jpg) This dry, stony scenery is much closer to my home. The photograph shows an abandoned stone quarry situated about five or six kilometers from my hometown.

(Enlargeable) This is something from Medulin, my hometown. The photograph was taken at Christmas.

(Enlargeable) This is the old railroad bridge on one of the canals of the river Rasha in the northeastern part of Istria. The industrial railroad isn't in operation now, but it was very busy from 1937 to 1966 when the many coal mines in the area were still open. ![](https://i.ecency.com/DQmc7nG7qnMbco7WqPjz29MhCzuNjXymeiCiPxhzQ4kNSMr/img_6446_malo.jpg) This is a scene from my hometown. Some interesting benches in the park near the harbor. ![](https://i.ecency.com/DQmZHWz6oURgso3Pbag39gWH6wHPvTZXdnBezCSdrYSd8D2/img_3122_cb.jpg) The laundry on a line in the city of Pula. ![](https://i.ecency.com/DQmXJfswVvSeTSSWn7Zovk13Ker1LRwBTgakauNcBxhrqRw/img_7169_malo.jpg) The woods in winter, somewhere near the town of Zminj, in the central part of Istria. ![](https://i.ecency.com/DQmXjJZQ96z11ebWQTvUnKicjtDkoF28LBoPRWLHEMHvFAN/img_0323_malo.jpg) This is a hypercingulating fibricalymumbalator. I know it looks like a small mushroom, but it's not. It's a hypercingulating fibricalymumbalator, and a very good, expensive one. ![](https://i.ecency.com/DQmRAWWiF8mGJM5xhZizUb9xocxbM9Bd41aBg7WGJRCFK7S/img_0314_malo.jpg) And that's it. The post ends here. **THE END**. *As always here on Hive, the photographs are my work.*

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