Flowers and more flowers...

Life has been pretty busy lately - with work, tarot, photography, yoga, friends, family and spending time with Thomas - blogging has taken a bit of a back seat. I don't feel too bad about it, more of a niggling regret that perhaps blogging doesn't mean as much to me as it used to. Did anyone even notice I didn't blog for a week or that I haven't updated my 366 project on Instagram for a while? Probably not... and I'm oddly ok with that - everyone has their own life, their own distractions (see what I did there?! Ha!) most of my blog friends don't even blog anymore, so I rarely read other peoples blogs either... 

I still have my 366 project, so I'm happy to come back here for that and I still take my other photos that I definitely want to share here - I guess the regret mostly comes from the lack of community around this page but like I said above, I'm as much to blame for this. Something still keeps drawing me back here though - so don't give up on me yet (assuming you're even still here!)

Anyway, when things tend to get busy I fall back on one thing I know I love taking photos of - flowers. Each of my 366 project rolls has flowers scattered in between my 366 project photos, so this is a collection from the last 3 rolls of film that I finally got developed. Hurray for flowers!

Camera; Canon EOS 750
Film: Agfa Vista 200
 

DAY 143: XEMXIJA HERITAGE TRAIL PART II

I mentioned in my previous post that the heritage trail has around 20 archaeological sites on it and pictured below are even more of these - the roman apiaries, a megalithic temple ruin (5000ish years old approx - whaaa?) and a cave dwelling! 

We were mostly walking around in awe of the age of things and also that they were still there after all this time. Remarkably we were the only people around too - the trail wasn't well signposted and most tourists don't seem to know its there, which considering the sites was quite incredible to us. 

Admittedly there was quite a steep climb to the roman road and the trail wasn't well marked (we missed the roman baths because we couldn't find them and after a couple of hours in the sun we were too hot and hungry to keep searching) however, I still think they were totally worth the visit even if like us, you don't see all the sights.

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Film: Kodak Portra 160 NC
Location: Xemxija, Malta

Day 143: Xemxija Heritage Trail Part I

One of our favourite things about Malta was that there was SO much to see - so many amazing things. Valetta was, of course, wonderful (I have more photos but figured we could take a break for a bit) and so full of history but the quite astounding thing is that the second world war and even the Knights of Valetta, is young history for the island.  And one area this was most obvious was the Xemxija (pronounced shem-she-ya) Heritage Trail which luckily wasn't too far from where we stayed in Bugibba.

With around 20(!) sites of archaeological importance the trail starts with the roman road - a mere 2000ish years old, leading up to a cave and the roman apiaries.

I think I shared the last carob tree photo before but I must admit that it was one of my favourite things on the trail - I love trees anyway - but to see and touch one knowing that its been through most of Malta's recent history and quite amazing turns of events, was really something.

Camera: Canon EOS 750
Films: Agfa Vista 200 and Kodak Portra 160 NC
Location: Xemxija, Malta