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sunday post: mother’s day

12 Sunday May 2013

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Africa, Americas, Asia, Daegu, Delhi, Ethiopia, Family, India, Jakesprinter, Lalibela, South Korea, Sunday Post, United States of America, Virginia

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Sunday, May 12:  Today is Mother’s Day in the USA, and Jake has given us a challenge to post something in honor of mothers everywhere (Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post: Mother’s Day).  He writes: Mother’s Day is a celebration honoring mothers and motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in March or May.

Here are some mothers I’ve encountered in my travels.

a mother and her son in Pokhara, Nepal

a mother and her son in Pokhara, Nepal

A mother bathes her child in Bhaktapur, Nepal

A mother bathes her child in Bhaktapur, Nepal

a mother and her children at the Lalibela Saturday market in Ethiopia

a mother and her children at the Lalibela Saturday market in Ethiopia

Indian mothers at the Lotus Temple in Delhi, India

Indian mothers at the Lotus Temple in Delhi, India

my Korean friend Julie and her two children

my Korean friend Julie and her two children

And finally, in honor of my mother, who died over 10 years ago: Happy Mother’s Day!

My father and mother and their four children (one was still to come!)

My father and mother and their four children (one was still to come!)

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CBBH photo challenge: multi-colored

16 Tuesday Apr 2013

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Asia, CBBH Photo Challenge, Delhi, India, Kathmandu, Nepal, Oman, Pokhara

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Tuesday, April 16:  Marianne of East of Malaga has a monthly photo challenge called the Conejo Blanco Blog Hop, or CBBH for short.  Her challenge for this month is: multi-colored.

According to this website: “Colour is a meaningful constant for sighted people and it’s a powerful psychological tool.  By using color psychology, you can send a positive or negative message, encourage sales, calm a crowd, or make an athlete pump iron harder.”

Talking of sales, Henry Ford famously declared that the Model-T buyer could choose “any colour, so long as it’s black.”   Thank goodness that these days, consumers are more discerning!

Here are some multi-colored photos from my travels around the world.

multi-colored boats in Pokhara, Nepal

multi-colored boats in Pokhara, Nepal

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more multi-colored boats in Pokhara, Nepal

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rowboats in Pokhara

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a flower stall in Delhi, India

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woolly multi-colored gloves in Kathmandu, Nepal

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multi-colored flowers in front of the Sultan’s palace in Muscat, Oman

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multi-colored trims for abayas sold at Mutrah Souq, Muscat, Oman

** One blogger I follow and love is Lynn Wohlers of bluebrightly.  Lynn blogs about “photography or philosophy, birds or flowers, zen, maps, psychology, travel… [her] mind roams.”  She takes stunning pictures of forests, leaves, flowers, and anything else in nature you can think of.  When I look at her photos, I want to jump into their magical worlds and stay there for a good long time.

**Another blogger I love is Roseanne of Wondering Rose.  Rosie works at an art museum in southern California and shares quirky and funny stories about her encounters at her cash register.  She always writes thought-provoking posts and comments.  I truly enjoy and appreciate her kindness and her insights.  Rosie had the life-altering experience of walking the Camino de Santiago.  I really hope to meet her if I can get to California this Christmas.

 

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travel theme: hot

01 Saturday Dec 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Africa, Al Hamra, Alexandria, As Sifah Beach, Cairo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Hot, India, Jaisalmer, Jebel Shams, Jordan, Lalibela, Oman, Pyramids of Giza, Sharqiya Region, Sur, The Dead Sea, The Sphinx, Travel Theme Photo Challenge

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Saturday, December 1:  Ailsa of Where’s my backpack? has challenged us to come up with photos for HOT.

I have lived in Oman for the last year and 2 months and I have never experienced heat like I’ve experienced here, except during a month I spent in Egypt in July 2007.  In both places, temperatures regularly reach 40-45 degrees Celsius (104 – 113 Fahrenheit) in the summer.  When you breathe, sometimes you feel that your windpipe and lungs are turning to chafing hot sand. They literally burn.

If you want to see more images of hot, look through ALL the pictures in my entire blog.  It is hot here year round.  In the winter, the mornings and evenings are cool, but during the day, it always gets hot.  Only on Jebel Akhdar, or swimming in a wadi or the sea, is a person able to cool off.

Here are some images for HOT.  Some of the images come from India, Ethiopia and Jordan. Click on any of them for a full-sized slide show.

As Sifah Beach in Oman
As Sifah Beach in Oman
Cairns on Jebel Shams, Oman
Cairns on Jebel Shams, Oman
Camels in Jaisalmer, India
Camels in Jaisalmer, India
Saturday market at Lalibela, Ethiopia
Saturday market at Lalibela, Ethiopia
The Dead Sea in Jordan
The Dead Sea in Jordan
the desert and mountains outside of Sur, Oman
the desert and mountains outside of Sur, Oman
Ruins in Al Hamra, Oman
Ruins in Al Hamra, Oman
the corniche in Alexandria, Egypt
the corniche in Alexandria, Egypt
the Sphinx and the pyramids at Giza. Cairo, Egypt.
the Sphinx and the pyramids at Giza. Cairo, Egypt.

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weekly photo challenge: green

16 Friday Nov 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Abu Dhabi, Agra, Bidbid, Geoje-si, Greece, India, Meteora monasteries, Ohiopyle, Oman, Pennsylvania, postaweek2012, South Korea, Taj Mahal, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Weekly Photo Challenge, Wekan

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Friday, November 16: The WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge is Green. For some of you, in the northern hemisphere, you may not be seeing green for a while. Let’s celebrate all things green!

For a full-sized slide show, click on any image in the gallery below.

more greenery near Geoje-do, South Korea
more greenery near Geoje-do, South Korea
green island near Geoje-do, South Korea
green island near Geoje-do, South Korea
the green lawn at the Taj Mahal, Agra, India
the green lawn at the Taj Mahal, Agra, India
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, USA
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania, USA
a green garden at one of the Meteora monasteries in Greece
a green garden at one of the Meteora monasteries in Greece
a green door in Misfat Al Abriyyen, Oman
a green door in Misfat Al Abriyyen, Oman
green pomegranate at Wekan, Oman
green pomegranate at Wekan, Oman
a green niche at the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE
a green niche at the Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan Mosque in Abu Dhabi, UAE
near Geoje-do, South Korea
near Geoje-do, South Korea
gardens near Geoje-do, South Korea
gardens near Geoje-do, South Korea
limes at BidBid, Oman
limes at BidBid, Oman
flowers in Wekan, Oman
flowers in Wekan, Oman
green bananas at Misfat al Abriyyen, Oman
green bananas at Misfat al Abriyyen, Oman
Misfat Al Abriyyen, Oman
Misfat Al Abriyyen, Oman
Misfat Al Abriyyen, Oman
Misfat Al Abriyyen, Oman
a privately owned island covered in gardens near Geoje-do, South Korea
a privately owned island covered in gardens near Geoje-do, South Korea
topiary at Geoje-do, South Korea
topiary at Geoje-do, South Korea

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sunday post: city

21 Sunday Oct 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in Beijing, China, Daegu, Greece, Hanoi, India, Jakesprinter, Jakesprinter Sunday Post, Kalambaka, South Korea, Sunday Post, Varanasi, Vietnam

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Sunday, October 21: Jakesprinter’s Sunday Post challenge for this week is City.  He writes: A city is a large center of population organized as a community. The word city is derived from the Latin word civitas, which denotes a community that administers its own affairs. In ancient Greece such an independent community was called a city-state; it consisted of a chief town and its immediate neighborhood.

Here are some cities from different parts of the world.

Kalambaka, at the foot of the Meteora monasteries in Thessaly, Greece

Daegu, South Korea, near Keimyung University

modern Beijing, China

Hanoi, Vietnam

Varanasi, India

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7 super shots

25 Wednesday Jul 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in 7 Super Shots, Beijing, Cambodia, Cappadocia, Chandigarh, China, Daegu, HostelBookers.com, Houhai Lake, India, Left Bank, Muscat, Oman, Phnom Penh, Rishikesh, South Korea, Suncheon Bay, Turkey

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Wednesday, July 25:  FrizzText (FrizzText: 7 Super Shots) nominated me to take part in HostelBookers 7 Super Shots.  It’s been 10 days since he nominated me, and I’m just now getting around to taking part in the challenge, 8 days before I leave Oman to return to the USA for one month! (But who’s counting?)

The challenge is to choose 7 of your own photos, one for each of the following categories:

  • A photo that…takes my breath away
  • A photo that…makes me laugh or smile
  • A photo that…makes me dream
  • A photo that…makes me think
  • A photo that…makes my mouth water
  • A photo that…tells a story
  • A photo that…I am most proud of (aka my worthy of National Geographic shot)

Here is a photo that takes my breath away.  In Cappadocia, Turkey, we wake up at dawn for an hour-long hot air balloon ride.  As 40 balloons lift off simultaneously, everyone is silent.  The experience of rising, feeling the land pull away, seeing the multitudes of other balloons in the sky, all at different heights, of different colors – it takes my breath away.  It takes everyone’s breath away.  We are awed into silence.  The only sound is the blast of the fire overhead, the rustle of people moving around in the basket to search out the best view.

hot air balloons in Cappadocia, Turkey

As we relax into the ride, we make noises, exclamations of wonder.  We love the other balloons floating in the sky with us; they’re our companions.  Seeing them is the only way we can see ourselves.   Below are the white pinnacles of Cappadocia, the fairy chimneys, the pointed volcanic rocks, tufts of greenery.

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Here is a photo that makes me laugh or smile.  This is a picture of one of my closest friends while I lived in Korea, Anna S.  We all went to the Trick Art Exhibit in Daegu, South Korea.   Here is Anna, hanging on for dear life.

this photo really makes me smile! 🙂

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Here is a photo that makes me dream. This is a photo of Houhai Lake in Beijing, China.  This was such a peaceful and beautiful place; it made me feel all dreamy when I was there.  After a rickshaw tour, our guide Grace walks us over to the lovely Houhai Lake.  This is my favorite place in Beijing…the Summer Palace being a close second.  Houhai isn’t necessarily a tourist place, although it draws plenty of tourists.  It’s a thriving commercial area with funky and cool shops, restaurants with outdoor cafes and live music, weeping willow trees, paddle boats, bicycles galore, and a cool breeze blowing off the small finger-shaped lake.

Houhai Lake in Beijing: the stuff of dreams

My friend Suzanne and I wander around the lake.  It is so lovely, with a cool breeze sweeping the weeping willows on the lake’s edge, like soft woolen fringe on a Nordic sweater.  The lake is filled with dancing points of light, effervescent.

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Here is a photo that makes me think.  Before I went to Cambodia, I read a number of gruesome books about the Khmer Rouge.  It really made me think about how, during the time millions of people were suffering under a cruel and murderous regime in Cambodia, I was living a carefree life as a teenager in America.  Visiting Tuol Sleng Prison in Phnom Penh, as well as the Killing Fields, really made me think about how oblivious we can be sometimes to other people’s sufferings.

At the Killing Fields, I face the entrance gate and a giant commemorative stupa.  I discover later that the stupa is filled with the skulls of 8,000 victims who were murdered here.  I go directly to the tiny museum where a film is in progress about the history of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge regime and of this place.  The film is brutally honest and doesn’t try to gloss over the barbarity of this horrible regime.  I find often in my travels that museums try to downplay the despicable actions of their country or to gloss over history.  For example, in Musée de l’Armée in Paris, there is hardly any mention made of the Americans liberating Paris after WWII.  You would think when visiting there that the French single-handedly defeated the Germans.  Revisionist history.

the Killing Fields of Cambodia

The film here at Choeung Ek  is truly sickening and brings me, and many other tourists, to tears.  After the film, I collect myself, and walk around the grounds where I see some of the mass graves that were unearthed.  There’s a grave where only naked women and children were found.  Another grave contained headless corpses. Yet another only miscellaneous bone fragments. There is a tree where the regime would hold babies by the feet and bash their heads against the trunk.   Their rationale for killing babies was so that the children of victims wouldn’t seek revenge on the regime when they grew up.  One sign says that this particular tree held a loudspeaker to drown out the screams of those being bludgeoned, so as not to disturb the neighbors.

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Here is a photo that makes my mouth water.  This is warm goat cheese wrapped in pastry and smothered in cranberries at the Left Bank in Muscat, Oman.

cheese always makes my mouth water

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Here is a photo that tells a story. Here is a picture of the view out of the auto-rickshaw that pulled our broken-down car nearly 10km somewhere between Chandigarh and Rishikesh, India.   India was such an incredible hardship, especially on this day, which took the cake.  I love this picture because it tells the story of a grueling 14-hour day on what should have been a 3 hour drive from Chandigarh to Rishikesh, India.  To read more about this crazy day, check out: chandigarh >> to delhi (???) >> to rishikesh….14 grueling hours.

pulled by an autorickshaw about 10 km somewhere between Chandigarh and Rishikesh

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Honestly, I have a hard time coming up with a photo I am most proud of (aka my worthy of National Geographic shot).  I love many of my photos because they bring happy memories to me, but as far as being National Geographic-worthy, well, I’m just not that great a photographer!  I really can’t say I have a favorite, but I have some that I really like, similar to ones I’ve seen in National Geographic.  This one was taken when my son Alex came to visit me in South Korea and we went to Suncheon Bay.  This was one of my favorite places in Korea and when we went together, it was my second time there.  There are so many beautiful shots, but I think this one is interesting.

three boats in the Suncheon Bay EcoReserve in South Korea

Suncheon Bay is a coastal wetland with a large tidal flat, reed beds and salt marshes nestled between mountains and ribboned with rivers.  Further inland are glowing chartreuse rice fields.  I walk through the grasses along the wooden walkway and see fiddler crabs in the mud and some beautiful cranes.  It’s warm but a breeze is whipping the sea grasses around.  I love these grasses against the backdrop of the mountains and the rivers.

Here’s my post about my trip to Suncheon Bay: digging deep: edgy korean bus culture, tea bushes & wetlands, & the surrendered.

Now, I’m supposed to nominate 5 other bloggers to come up with their 7 Super Shots.  Here’s who I nominate:

Where’s my backpack?

the unbearable lightness of being me.

On the Go with Lynne

travelola

East of Málaga

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a-z archive: i challenge (india)

28 Tuesday Feb 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in A-Z Photo Challenge, India, Varanasi

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Tuesday, February 28: Yet another challenge for me to get caught up in.  Boy, I sure know how to waste time doing NOTHING!! Except having fun.  For sure. 🙂   

This is my photo for the letter “I”: INDIA.  In a nutshell.

This woman is in Varanasi, India, certainly the most insane place on the planet. She IS India!

India ~ a billion people

rowing along the ghats on the Ganges River in Varanasi ~ March 2011

If you’d like to read about my travels in India see catbird in india.  Welcome to my world… 🙂

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weekly photo challenge: down

17 Friday Feb 2012

Posted by nomad, interrupted in India, Jaisalmer, postaweek2012, South Korea, Trick Art Exhibit, Weekly Photo Challenge

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Friday, February 17: 

Tonight I happen to be watching an Italian movie called The Son’s Room. As I think about what photo to post for this week’s photo challenge, DOWN, a song called “By This River” by Brian Eno plays in the movie.

Here we are
Stuck by this river,
You and I
Underneath a sky that’s ever falling down, down, down
Ever falling down.

When I hear the words “underneath a sky,” “falling down” and “stuck by this river,” a picture I once took comes to mind.  This picture was taken at a Trick Art Exhibit at a museum in Daegu, South Korea.   It’s a picture of my friend Anna, hanging to a sheer cliff face, terrified of falling down.  The picture was actually taken so that what looks like the vertical wall is a horizontal painting on the floor.  Anna is lying on the floor here, pretending to look down, terrified of falling. Down.

ever falling down, down, down... at the Trick Art Museum in Daegu, South Korea

Here’s another picture, taken in Jaisalmer, India, on a “camel safari,” which is basically just a one-hour camel ride through the desert.  Looking down from the camel, we see an elongated shadow of ourselves on our camel.  Sometimes what’s down is more interesting than what’s up.

a long and skinny camel with two girls on top (my friend Jayne & me!)

 

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~ wander.essence ~

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Official Fairfax County Government Emergency Preparedness, Response and Recovery Website

~ wander.essence ~

where travel meets art

Living in Paradise...

SterVens' Tales

~~~In Case You Didn't Know, I Talk 2 Myself~~~

PIRAN CAFÉ

Word Wabbit

Wrestless Word Wrestler

Cardinal Guzman

Encyclopedia Miscellaneous - 'quality' blogging since August 2011

Pit's Fritztown News

A German Expat's Life in Fredericksburg/Texas

Fumbling Through Italy

Empty Nesters on a Green Global Trek

snowtoseas

Cornwall in Colours

inspired by the colours of the land, sea and sky of Cornwall

Slovenian Girl Abroad

A blog about travel adventures written by an Slovenian girl living in Switzerland

Let Me Bite That

Can I have a bite?

Running Stories by Jerry Lewis

Personal blog about running adventures

Finding NYC

exploring New York City one adventure at a time

The World according to Dina

Notes on Seeing, Reading & Writing, Living & Loving in The North

Cornwall Photographic

snippetsandsnaps

Potato Point and beyond

SITTING PRETTY

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