Birds of a Feather 6 x 6 oil on board
I spotted this lady eating and feeding
the pigeons while I was waiting
for my visa to be officially stamped
and recorded by the Maltese Immigration
Department. I whipped out my I pad to
gather some color references and
snapped a quick photo to bring back to
my studio to paint from.
Ex-Pat Slant:
I'm stamped and cleared to stay in
Malta another year. It's best to arrive at the Immigration Department
early since they quit at noon and have more people than they can process in
the four days a week they are open.
I'm happy to say “mission accomplished”
in spite of:
waiting in the wrong line for two hours only to be redirected to
another line to wait;
the zillion people vying for position to be in
front of the one fan;
the most unusual filing system that literally looks like something out
of a Harry Potter novel- stacks of paper in disarray everywhere, from floor to
ceiling, covering desks, I half expected an ancient old man in spectacles and smelling of moth balls,
writing with a quill tipped pen, to peer down at me from the tippy top of the stacks;
phones ringing constantly and never answered;
and to top it off- a huge
fight in the waiting
area involving eight screaming men and
lots of cursing and finger pointing.
All and all a truly entertaining
experience, I only wish I'd taken photos.
