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Friday, March 26, 2010

Spring signs

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Photography
Travel
Post-colonial culture

Followers

Turkish tea glass, Chautauqua

Cleveland Museum of Art's new wing, ca.1970

Hazel captures her own toes

'blue' velvet birthday cake

outside the Cleveland Museum of Art

summer, rose-scented geranium

Queen Anne's lace, Cuyahoga Valley towpath

View out the bathroom window

This says a version of Happy Birthday, by Hazel

Paul's cool windshield and sky

Sun sets in the Pioneer Valley

Bent bloom, Greenfield, Massachusetts

Green grass and an eastern sunset

Driving east, August 14, 7AM

Green carpet, Cuyahoga Valley

Bottle top, Germany

Copper meets air and water, Holland

Medina walls, Rabat; after Georgia O'Keefe's Taos church

Poppy, Rabat's Chellah. Did these same flowers bloom in Roman times?

Queen Anne's lace, wish I knew the Arabic

Zellij in Chellah; same designs 700 years later

Arch of the Chellah mosque entry, Rabat

Little black frog by the eel pool, Chellah

Reptilian friend in the gardens of the Chellah

Olives, beginning

Blooms hanging over sidewalk, from Cyber Parc

Fig tree, Medina

More stack on stack, this time red

Walking through souk, mint scent envelops you

Toubkal, olive souk

Niche in the wall, Kozybar

La Koutoubia, moving

Driving west

Lines and confluences, mapping

View to the sky from down below

Blue lines, blue shadows

Knocking hand

Black and white

Chalk script, knocker

Coke prepares us for the World Cup, South Africa

"Stack on stack," as Hazel would say

Doorknob, Essa

Riad Remmy, night

Cats, always in the basket, Essa

Amsterdam, organized

Going that way, by bike

Hazel takes it in

Hazel with the smooth naked lady, near Amsterdam

Hydrangeas beginning, near Amsterdam

Tulips and oil painting, outside Amsterdam

Amsterdam, about to fly west

Boston from the third floor, Belmont, MA

Green grass in Groton, MA, on Woolworks Farm

Atlantic from the other side: Good Harbor, Gloucester, MA

Juice near the Dadès Gorge

Good morning

Sunset, somewhere between Fez and Casa

Little bureau I wish would fit in my suitcase

Windows above our riad, Chefchaouen

Chefchaouen door

Fiddle-playing, Moroccan style, Chefchaouen

Drawing, central plaza, Chefchaouen

Colors, Chefchaouen

Chefchaouen, wall inside the medina

Picnic pictures

Fig leaves beneath the abandoned mosque

Pigment, powdered

Chefchaouen, central fountain

Chefchaouen doors

Ibn Batuta slept here (well, you know...)

Chefchaouen blues

Through the Bab Bou Jeloud, Fez

Detail, Kairaouine Mosque complex

Chouwara tanneries, Fez

Getting near the end of day

Crémerie La Place, Place as-Seffarine

Medina chips, Fez

Fez Medina: this way or that way?

Detail, the Bouanania Medersa, Fez

Fez, looking up

Meknes, for sale

Detail, inscription on restored Triumphal Arch, Volubilis

Detail, main door, Imperial City, Meknes (column poached from Volubilis)

Meknes, wall inside the medina

At Volubilis (translation, Latin scholars?)

Rugs, Place d'Epices

Paul, amidst rugs

The crankies are staved off with Auntie Jen's iphone

Inside the shop

Abderrahman says these each take 5 days to make

Framed view, sunlight, stone (Essaouira)

Essaouira fishing boats

Just back, day's end

Hull, close

Looking west

Curve through the moving window

Climbing up to the view

Beside the river

Beneath your feet

Down river

Imlil, light arrives late

Hazel and her lion; conversation

Close of day, light, cloud, water (by Paul)

Between Marrakech and Essaouira

Inside the little pavilion of YSL homage, Jardin Majorelle

Buried in the green, Jardin Majorelle

Blue and green, water, light

Taken during Paul's morning bike commute

No. 18

Bottles (vintage)...

...and books (more recent)

February rains, bus between Essaouira and Marrakech

Cropped

Waiting

Essaouira wallscape

Atlantic, nearing sunset

Rock, sea, sky

Essaouira's Mellah (Jewish quarter, now mostly abandoned)

Up

Sky above winding way to where we stayed, Essaouira

After the rain

Locked

Essaouira hats

Photo from Paul's 7:30AM bicycle commute

Sun sets over Marrakech traffic

Peaks above Imlil, due south of Marrakech

In motion, at rest, Essaouira (November)

Bread in the morning sun

Door, Essaouira (November)

Seatless ride, Essaouira (November)

Haphazard snap, Essaouira (December)

Cloudscape, Route de Ouarzazate, southeast of Marrakech

Medina wall along Mohammed VI, late afternoon

Late afternoon, La Koutoubia from Jemaa El Fna

Detail, Jardin Majorelle with the folks (December 26, 2009)

Detail, kilim from the Middle Atlas

Same rug, not so close

Looking north along the coast, Essaouira

December evening along the ramparts, Essaouira

Essaouira surf from the ramparts, red with storm runoff

Eight sides, eight angles, the whole world over (Essaouira)

Hazel's first snapshot of her parents

Evening, almost up on the ramparts, Essaouira

From the ramparts, looking southwest, Essaouira

Hazel, after her surprise dip in the sea

Duet, Essaouira

Smoothie at La Cantina, Essaouira

Beach bliss, Essaouira

From the riad's rooftop: Rue Chbanate, Essaouira

Paul and Hazel, Essaouira

Essaouira fortress profile made famous by Orson Welles

Medina wall, whitewash, skyscape: Essaouira

Lovely carved table that appeared in the shop before lunch

Tile, ground-floor, at the riad we saw November 4

Morning at home

Hazel and the rug, a few days before the big event

On the way to Asni, south of the city

Hazel helps herself to the sugar.

Sugar, Berber Market in Asni

Lentils and bread inside the Asni restaurant

Someone else's lunch, Asni

Mercedes parking lot

Dusk, looking southeast down Mohammed VI; Atlas all but invisible in a photo this size especially

La Koutoubia, last Friday of Ramadan

Hazel requires that a picture be taken of Lamby-Guy

Smushing noses beneath La Koutoubia

Night-club ad, mashing English and French: "Absolutely Women Every Wednesday!"

The bowl (Berber design: detail)

Abdellah and his son with Hazel

The bowl (Berber design)

La Koutoubia, central landmark of Marrakech

Looking back along Rue Dar El-Bacha, just before 7PM

Looking west, north-west on Rue Dar El-Bacha, night

Jardin Majorelle

Lily pond, Jardin Majorelle

Blue, Yellow, Green

Detail, Jardin Majorelle

Hazel in the garden

Blue, Green, Water, Girl

Mark of the tourist

Hazel goes to bed; we stay up for cocktail hour

Courtyard, Palacio (that's the name of our building)

Hazel at the courtyard spigot; Lamby-Guy waits his turn

Green tile

Hazel at ASM, first visit

Hazel at the fountain (Paul's pic)

Heather Liske: Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States; After Morocco -- Massachusetts? (But wasn't it Emily Dickinson who wrote, not nine miles from here, "The Mail from Tunis, probably,/ An easy Morning's ride"?) I'm on the cusp of a second year back in the classroom; Paul's into his longtime plan of a masters in mathematics; Hazel is now gloriously four; life bumps and grooves along and we're still in western Massachusetts. It's an odd thing -- difficult? happy? love-filled? -- to take with you the places that you've been, dig in deeply to the place where you are.

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Friday, March 26, 2010

Spring signs

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