April 27, 2012: Karma of Karma’s When I Feel Like it Blog: April Photo Hunt posted her every-other-month challenge for April: “For this month’s photo hunt, please photograph at least four (more than four are most welcome) of your favorite things (and I’m not talking about brown paper packages tied up with string!).”
Many of my favorite things are in the USA. I have some pictures of my favorites from home, but for everything else, I will have to find things here in this foreign land, or in other foreign lands! 
food ~ I love chicken and dumplings! This plate of delectable chicken and dumplings was photographed in Richmond, Virginia.
yummy chicken & dumplings
drink ~ Oman is known for its fresh fruit juices; my favorites are mango juice & lime mint soda. My favorite alcoholic drink is always red wine. This bottle of Chianti was shared at Qurum Resort’s Jade Garden Thursday night Sushi buffet.
I love a smooth red wine...
flower or plant ~ My favorite flower in the USA, in the garden right outside my front door, is the peony. I love the soft fluffy blossoms and the sweet fragrance of this flower. Since I can’t find peonies in Oman to photograph, here is another favorite flower of mine, photographed at Geoje-do in South Korea. I love the look of this flower so much that I bought a fake version to put in my flat here in Oman. If anyone knows the name of this, please leave me a comment so I’ll know for the future!!
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. ~ Gerard De Nerval
color ~ My favorite color is purple.
They turn'd to rest; and, each clasp'd by an arm,
Yielded to the deep twilight's purple charm. ~ George Gordon Noel Byron
animal ~ The first dog I owned in my adult life was a black mutt named Lilly. In this picture Lilly and I are playing in a field in Idaho, circa 1981. She got hit by a car in the summer of 1986 in Nag’s Head, North Carolina. 
I miss Lilly...
vacation spot ~ I have too many favorite vacation spots to feature here, but since I visited France twice, I’ll share this photo of the ochre-colored village of Roussillon. Sadly, most of my photos from France are not digitalized because I went there before I had a digital camera!
Roussillon in France
hobby (other than photography or blogging!) ~ My hobbies are photography and blogging, but mostly about travel, which is the thing that inspires my photography and blogging. Here is me doing what I love best, sitting in a beautiful spot and soaking up the scenery ~ in Cappadocia, Turkey.
me in my favorite place on this earth so far!!
space to relax at home ~ I had a debate about whether it should be my bedroom or my living room in Oman, but I decided that since my bedroom usually leads to sleeping rather than “relaxing,” here is my living room.
my living room, where I read, write and relax...
sport ~ my favorite sport is simply walking, and particularly walking, or hiking, in new scenic places. Here is me at the top of Jebel Akhar in Oman, with Wadi Bani Kharus in the valley below.
my favorite "sport" ~ hiking anywhere scenic and gorgeous...
BONUS/CHALLENGE: How well do you think you know me? How much have you been reading over the last two years? Take a picture of something you believe to be a favorite of mine! My archives are listed by month over to the right in a drop down menu if you need a little help! 
To Karma (aka Karen): I can see you love flowers and gardening, and especially daffodils, or so it seems. Since I don’t have any daffodils in my archives or in Oman, here is a dahlia (or at least I think it’s a dahlia!)… directly to you from Varanasi, India.
a flower to you directly from Varanasi, India
I haven’t known you very long but long enough to know that we have things in common!Travel, writing, photography, purple, animals, plants and yomping etc. I’m not sure if you have been to Morocco but I think if you did Marrakech would become a new favourite on your list!
Gilly, yes! You’re right! We really do have a lot in common…I feel that too! Morocco is high on my list but I haven’t been yet. I do believe it will become a new favorite… I really hope to make it there during the next school year.
I have almost the same picture of that charming spot in Roussillon. I think we bought something at that shop. I loved that charming little town.
That’s so funny Martha! That is such a charming little town; I loved all of France, but I sure wish I had some of my photos in digital version. This was one set I got on a disc, so I have it on my computer, but the rest are in photo albums!! That shop was adorable and I think I bought something there too!
I love your post! Wow, you really took all of my suggestions and what a great “getting to know you” post this turned out to be. I especially like the ones that have you in them – you are very photogenic.
You chose a favorite for me very well – I do love flowers and gardening and that dahlia is wonderful.
Wow! Thank you Karen!! It was a struggle at first because I kept thinking of other things that were my favorite things, like food in America that I can’t get here and my house in America which is much more cozy!! I almost didn’t think I’d be able to come up with anything interesting, but in the end I was happy with it. I’m glad you like the dahlia! I love your flower photos. I also raised a teenage daughter (and 2 teenage sons), and kept trying to think of something for that but I couldn’t come up with anything!! And thanks for the compliment about me being photogenic. Sadly, I’ve put on some pounds since the picture in Turkey was taken …
Beautiful post! Particularly loved that picture of you in Cappadocia!
Fabulous colors both on the blog and in the photo’s. Those dalia’s are beautiful and the food made me hungry:) We have similar themes in our presentation.http://wp.me/p1PaX2-pf
Yes, diggingher, I love your post as well; the color purple is definitely featured and your bird pictures are amazing!!
Loved all of this! Such interesting colors and places!
Thank you, Dawn!!
My, you do get around yet you and I share the same favorite dish…chicken and dumplings! Yum!
Your Lily is probably playing with my Danny. Those pets we grow up with are forever in our hearts.
Ah, that’s a nice thought that our dogs are playing forever in doggy heaven!! And yes, I love chicken and dumplings. I think I’ll have to make some soon!!
Catbird, you look gorgeous in those shorts in Turkey! Keep on truckin’!!
Natalia Miles
Thanks Natalia! That was when I was thinner…
Still trying hard to get back there, but seem to be fighting a losing battle…
Wonderfully and beautifully done! I see we have quite a bit in common (photography, blogging, hiking/walking, favorite color). You are much more photogenic than I am, though.
Thank you Robin! Yes, I think we do have lots in common just by reading your blog, which I find inspirational in too many ways to count! Thanks for the compliment; since I haven’t seen pictures of you, I can only guess about your photogenic-ness! Your gravatar is certainly photogenic!!
I make rare appearances on my blog from time to time, usually bundled up for the winter with large sunglasses on. lol! I did show up only half-hidden once: http://bogsofohio.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/self-portrait/
Wow Robin! That’s a beautiful picture! You are certainly very photogenic. I like this picture a lot! Thanks for sharing. It’s funny, I had a whole different picture in my mind, more like Ann Beattie, as I often envisage your life like the one she writes about in her book of short stories, Park City. So strange how we form these images out of nowhere. I never pictured you as a redhead! My daughter is one too! Lovely, nice to halfway meet you face to face!! You look a lot younger than me too…
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Thank you Karma! Glad you enjoyed!