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Touches of color

Chillout

Reflective pool

Ironing – snapping photos of iron beauties

The gate – Passeig de Gràcia

Do you like ironing? I don’t mind, especially when it refers to snapping photos of iron beauties around Barcelona! ;) Here are some for you to enjoy…

Lacy looks – Carrer Caputxes

Gorgeous grille – Carrer Doctor Joaquim Pou

Supporting – Passeig de Gràcia

Lovely lid – Carrer Balmes

Shimmering our way into the weekend

Avinguda Diagonal

It’s the weekend, and after a couple of days of cooler temperatures and lots of rain, the sun is out, so it is time to shimmer our way into the weekend.

Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes

Just look around you, and you’ll find buildings and structures doing just that around Barcelona. Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!

Port Olìmpic

Squares + circles

Plaça del Mar

Happy Monday! Every week is  like a new game on a board, where Mondays are square one, and we hop from one space on the board to the next, squares + circles, until we arrive at Sunday… This thought came to me while I spotted these decorative elements on several of Barcelona’s buildings, so I thought I’d share them with you today.

Plaça del Mar

Can you imagine playing hop-scotch on the walls of this building in the Born? Or moving checker pieces on the doors of the Santa Maria del mar?

Santa Maria del Mar

Plaça Sant Miquel

The squares + circles on the City Hall building on Plaça de Sant Miquel would make for a wonderful playground to hop from one square to the next, or throw balls into the circles, don’t you think? How about we make this week into a game? It sounds more fun that way, doesn’t it? In any case, and whether you are game or not, have a wonderful week, everyone!

Plaça Sant Miquel

Stained beauty

Bunches – Ronda Sant Antoni

Happy Monday! I hope you had a great weekend and are ready to kick-start the week. I have some stained beauty for you today – a few examples of the incredibly beautiful stained glass windows from around Barcelona, starting with the lovely stained glass in a bay window of a residential building…

Diamonds fit for a king – Plaça del Rei

… followed by the colourful diamonds in a couple of chapel windows and the repetitive flower pattern in the lobby of the Palau de la Mùsica.

Repetition – Palau de la Mùsica

Lovely, aren’t they?

Pretty ladies – Palau de la Mùsica

You’ve probably seen photos of the very grand stained glass ceiling of the Palau de la Mùsica before. It never ceases to cause an impression, and I too could not resist a shot when I visited it a few years ago. Last but not least, the stunning effect of the beautiful rose window as seen from behind the statue of the virgin in the Santa Maria del Mar church.  My favourite of all the churches I have seen so far.

Have a great week, everyone!

Facing – Santa Maria del Mar

Texture

Rough – Plaça Àngels

Apart from all the fancy decorative elements that abound in Barcelona, I love the textures that you can find on its walls all over the city. They can be very inspiring. Here, heck for yourself…

Rough :: 2 – Carrer Minerva

Linear – Carrer Mas Yebra

70’s funky – Carrer Floridablanca

Sinuous – Carrer Floridablanca

Hieroglyphs? – Carrer Còdols

Which is your favourite?

3 in 1 – Carrer Minerva

Golden

Marbles- Plaça Sant Jaume

Happy Monday! It’s a new week, filled with golden opportunities…  or perhaps just the chance to spot golden details (like these from my archives) around Barcelona?

Sunrise – Carrer Nou de la Rambla

Flaky – Somewhere in Gracia

Fortuitous – Passeig de Gràcia

Have a good one, folks!

Golden brown – Tibidabo

Mirrored

Camouflaged – Carrer Roger de Llùria

Diffuse – Carrer Pietà

Perspective – Torre Mapfre

Double – Plaça del Bonsuccès

Hop scotch – Plaça Villa de Madrid

One – Carrer Elisabets

Watery – Port Vell

Blank canvas

Foot steps

As Mondays tend to be a little tough on most of us, I thought we’d start the week with a blank canvas, with images from my archives taken at the MACBA, which is just around the corner from where I live…

Corner

Levels

Sun light

Have a great week, everyone!

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