territorial cats
"They will come, they know that I throw."
"They will come when they are hungry."
city of legends
"They still do that, you know. The mayor still has the power. They hold a meeting and give an accomplished athlete an apartment upon their return."
landscaping crew
"those empty fields they sold off." - "I miss the meadows." - "No one was going to do anything with them." - "We played in them all day."
BKP windows
Graffiti for the long expired Bulgarian Communist Party. Original standardized wood framed windows, already replaced, leaning against it.. . . . . . . .
boulevards
"It reminds me of Paris!" - "It was the perfect place to eat ice cream!"
neighbor negotiations
"Neighbors are the most important thing. Family is important too.. But you can teach them. Neighbors are the most important to live happy."
rakiya sales
"Which is why you should buy more!"
terlitsi and plants
"There is always a need for terlitsi! Or how about a plant, you need some plants for your balcony... And then we will find you a man!"
lost architects
"It’s... everybody does whatever they want."
belo
throughout all seasons
jurassic park
"You know, edno vreme, in the village we used to do everything with a sickle and a palamarka, like this...... "
reflecting and filtering
foil and lace.. . . . . . . .
spring storms
lighting up the Trakiya skyline.. . . . . . . .
ice cream stop
at the ice cream stoop. . . . . . . .
tumbling balconies on a thumb
"I released it from the crane and it fell, knocking off every balcony on its way down."
jungles
"I can't do anything without a lamp all day. Can you imagine?! A lamp!"
village elements
baba peeks around the car from her bench.
fading characteristics
"It was Ivan who thought of them. I remember the font. It was Helvetica! And it matched the building color."
black and arial.
secondary becomes primary
"and the secondary road has everything now, and it's even called the.."center" of Trakiya."
razchupena sun and shade
"Thank god, the one bedrooms stick out further than the sun can reach. We are saved!"
A9 landscaping
They may sit empty, but they are far from underused.
the kalkan’s new scales
Characteristically critiqued for its scale and personality in the context of single family America suburbia homes, how does it fare in the land of towering concrete panel blocks?
ending long weekends
But, as the sun sets on Sunday, the cars take up their spots on the sidewalks again, and the people come limping and sore to their benches and gathering spots, swapping stories about that other never ending project they all have...
photosynthesis
"Pff a lot of good that does me! Do they think I can just go out there and photosynthesize?!"
chestit purvi mai
morning may day preparations. beer. coffee. salad necessities.
panelka poetry
whether man has tortured it
just the right size
"Exactly like this, we just put them in the empty fountains and give them a ball and they just love it!"
oranges in bloom
"I decided to paint my kitchen."
"I've meant to it for the last 20 years."
А9 legacies
"You know we never had to be in the mud like everyone else.
We were the first ones."
fractured reflections
"In 1997 we went back. We pieced it together with what had already been done."
panelka gardening
The sausage always must be sliced fresh and sliced thin.
panel code
Under all the original layers and before its covered anew, look quickly. It's just beyond the bristles of the brush.
vines that bind
Come fall,
Wine making is in the basement.
the beautifying campaign
"bez kozmetika, Baba kakvo pravi!?"
without the cosmetic things, what's a Baba to do!?
balcony to basement
pipe works of new kitchens on balconies.
big church and a soviet neighborhood holiday
But in Trakiya, our holiday is the time we opened the big church.
live bait
When communism fell and many of the inhabitants of Trakiya no longer had assured work, they took matters into their own hands.