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."
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!"
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!"
razchupena sun and shade
"Thank god, the one bedrooms stick out further than the sun can reach. We are saved!"
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."
panelka gardening
The sausage always must be sliced fresh and sliced thin.
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!?
resident babas
Sitting at the entry bench, checking our shopping bags and letting us know if the vegetables we bought are good.
messenger pigeons
"It's nothing, we can talk from here, I'll just yell for you."
ac honors
'it is in honor of Rusi Slavov - a fugleman who saved the lives of thousands of Bulgarians from Aegean Thrace......
Word and Voice
Grandpa would always send me out with 20 stotinki to buy Word, cigarettes, and gum.
empty fountain playgrounds
play pens parents stick the little ones in to keep them in one area,
soccer pit where boys aspiring to be the next …. take turns making shots at one . . . . . . . .
women’s day
"This is why March is a women's month.."
monuments of Trakiya
and they gather around them, looking up their skirts, comparing who is the bash maestera
doggy in the window
“Nobody really owned dogs during communism… now there are these massive dogs in these tiny apartments..”. . . . . . . .
kolio’s balcony
Every morning Kolio comes to his balcony, parts the fresh white lace curtains, and swings just one of the panels of his glass enclosure inwards. From there, he leans out and lights a cigarette....
bathroom remodel
"American homes will rot, our concrete will be here for hundreds of years."
the entry council
The lace looks forward. The brick turns a shoulder, slyly stepping its own entry down to the ground out back.
vhod fall
"Whose idea was it to plant all these stupid trees?!"
summer fading
"There is no such insulation on these panels."
-tap - tap-
"You have to insulate yourself!"
echos
"All week I've been dreaming of a safari!"
wayfinding
"Those people, the people that have lived in the villages all their lives, they don't understand things like this..."
for the mice
"She went there to be an architect, and we live here....
where the mice run up and down our pipes."
catching busses
"We didn't have sidewalks or grass, but we had big streets and lots of busses....."