Apr
23
Sant Jordi post no. 2: The Photo Session
April 23, 2007 |
I really wanted to take some good photos today as until next year I will not see the city so full of flowers and books, but it seems Gods were against me. I have even lost my last chance to take some good photos of the Sant Jordi bread, as until I got to take pictures of it I only found some crumbs on the table. That’s very nice of you, B, but you could have waited at least one minute. Still I have taken a photo of what was left of the bread. Originally it was white - yellow (almost white, like flours and nuts) with red lines. Similar to what? The catalan flag, correct answer. That’s what’s left of it.
If you want to see how the bread really looks and how it can be made you can visit this page (Spanish only).
I hope until next year Gods will stop being angry with me and will let me take some photos (I hope the little alien, human to be, will also let me take pictures). For the moment here you can see the rose and the book.
I have also been meditating today about two questions:
1. Why people that say: “I will never give a present to someone just because it’s Valentine’s Day/Sant Jordi/Etc’s Day; if you really love somebody you give him/her presents when you feel it” give presents to their wives/husbands the week before or after the “special commercial day”?
For this I don’t have any possible answer for the moment. I need to sleep the question or ask Luis, a colleague of ours that gave a gift to his wife on tuesday but he won’t give her a rose today.
2. Why there are so many broken roses on the streets on Sant Jordi?
B says it is because girls get angry with boys and start to throw them petals (It kind of hurts as on Sant Jordi roses are not cheap at all). On the other hand, I believe that those are 15 years old girls that have secret boyfriends and don’t want their mothers to know nor they know how to lie and tell it was a colleague that brought flowers to all the girls in class. Any other idea?