A beautiful painting

I finished work earlier today, so I could cycle to the city centre and visit our national gallery. It was just reopened after renovation and the entrance is free of charge this week, so I visited it.

I like many paintings there. But the one that I liked the most today was a painting "Woman drinking coffee by Ivana Kobilca".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Kobilca


I just love the expression on old woman's face. It looks so gentle, kind, at peace with life, enjoying in small things.  I would like to be the same.

Two December photos

I wanted to share those two picture with you already in December. I went for a cup of coffee with a friend of mine to most beautiful medieval small town in my country:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radovljica

Isn't it beautiful?

Miscellaneous

I got many kind Christmas & New Years emails from my bloggie friends, telling me also why they read my blog. What my blog means to them. I was deeply touched by reading them. Thank you again.

This is part of the email that made my day:
"Please do keep writing your blog! You might be envious of my youth, but I'm envious of the peace and wisdom you seem to have tonnes of!"

Yes, I intend to keep writing. Since writing a blog was very therapeutic for me.

So far my blog has 90,999 pageviews & 2,300 comments.
When I started writing 4 years ago, I never thought the numbers of the blogs will ever get that high.
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I am an introverted person, so starting a new work year is always a bit stressful. Since it means I have to wish Happy New Year to all of my coworkers and business partners that I meet in a week after which means lots of kissing (on the cheeks) with like 150 people. It went quite well. This year I didn't get any "may all your wishes from the bottom of your heart come true" "may you get everything you wish for". But I did get lots of wishes that include lots of travelling. Just a perfect wish for me!
I guess having first grey hair blocks any wishes about pregnancy / adoption .