A lot of Riga's historical houses aren't connected with central heating, thus they have alternative heating systems and in many of them - still good old wood heating. Sometimes people heats their ovens too hot and there you see the result...

Alberta street 4 is one of the most famous Riga's Art Nouveau symbols, built in 1904. It's one of 6 Eisenstein's works in Alberta street and few years ago was completely reconstructed - there are 8 luxurious flats now. Building's facade is ornated by many Art Nouveau elements - mythological animals, faces, flora themes, etc. What I found the most amazing about this building is it's window style in 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor, central part of the building. To my mind, exactly this combination creates the main character of the building.
 

The spaces between soviet time blockhouses in Riga sleeping districts are sometimes filled up with local businesses - like in this case, a restaurant - creating an unusual architecture promiscuity.

Saw these lovely sheeps in the beautiful rural scenery yesterday, while driving on a road to Talsi. Later we almost lost one wheel of a car but that's another story...
 

Sometimes you have to just look out of the window to take an interesting shot. On one of my commieblock balconies there was this weird, extraterrestrial-looking cat chilling out in the morning sun. While on other balcony there was an old man sitting with a mini radio in his hand:

Exactly 79 years ago, on 15th May 1934, Latvia's back-then prime minister Kārlis Ulmanis succesfully organized an overturn, turning Latvia from democratic to authoritarian country. He abolished parliament and started to personally lead the country as a Prime minister and since 1936 also as a president. The overturn was bloodless, noone was shot or injured, though several hundreds of politicians got imprisoned for a few months. From today's perspective one can judge differently this overturn, but the fact remains - in Ulmanis time (from 1934 until Soviet occupation at 1940) Latvia developed rapidly and "Ulmanis time" rests in people's memory as the best years in first Independence time.