There is a beauty in stillness. This is recognized in movies by use of slo-motion action when a love interest enters a scene.  It is an affectation we recognize and accept with little question. in a small shop between Goines and Avdou is a woman who inspires that love.

I drank tea and waited for the lamplighter. 

Unlike the freeze frame moments in movies and tchotkes he was a working man.

He came and went so quickly I recognized his presence only in hindsight.

All romance has been obliterated. 

My naivety is hilarious

Croatian farm country.

Red ball sun setting on the farmland breadbasket of Croatia. 

Red clay roof tiles on whitewashed houses. 

Six hectare homesteads 400 years old.

Families come and go and come again during wars. 

Children leaving this time to run after the world of Facebook and movies. 

A war of cultures and again, everyone loses.