From the museum gardens

I think these pretty much speak for themselves...

Anatolian pottery

Two weeks ago today, I went with a friend to the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. She is very interested in crafts and arts and for the moment is focussed on pottery, so we went to look at the historical pottery collections. I couldn't take photos inside the museum of course, so I can't show you some of their beautiful Neolithic and Bronze Age collections (several of of the pots I could easily use daily in my kitchen!, their shape and decoration are so attractive), but I can show you the collection in the garden.

Tracing shadows

Well well, back online finally, with a new modem - so hopefully things are now properly sorted out!

Will show more selected pictures from a hectic working visit to a south coast port city last weekend, but this will do for now, I think! ;-)

Apologies

Blogging is made very difficult for me right now, by a combination of work overload, lack of sleep and an Internet connection at home that is not feeling at all well. I hope to return as soon as possible and have a bunch of new photos to show you when I do. In the meantime, do what you can to help a troubled world, please...

Yumurtalik...

... is actually the closest village to the new oil terminal Ceyhan (a town a little way into the country) on the easternmost tip of the Turkish coast, in the Gulf between Mersin and Iskenderun. The terminal has received Iraqi oil for 25 years or so but is now also the site of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan terminal. An official international inauguration (one of several, that I'm aware of ;-) ) took place this week. I visited the site last year, but have no photos to show you. These sheep were grazing nearby though!

My balcony

Some more flowers from my balcony. My ruccola is growing too, but the herbs are not working out at all...

Abdullah

My old rose bush died unfortunately, so this is the (fairly recent) replacement. He looks a bit too long and thin, doesn't he?

Pedicured toenails

Oh, yes! I never fix my nails, but on Friday a friend took me to her beauty salon. What you can't see properly (the effect disappears in the flash I think :-( ) is the layer of pink glittery polish on top of the deep purple...

Frangipani

My favourite flower, in our window in Stockholm. It's my mother's, actually, we've sheltered it together for more than 15 years now! It's most beautiful when on bloom, of course.



As I child, I used to climb in a fullsized tree of this kind! ;-)

Stockholm summer bathing

This is the lake outside Stockholm were I used to swim as a child. I went back there recently, for the first time in years! It was lovely...