Zawita: Fresh Carp
Fish restaurant, Zawita, Duhok, Iraq. September 2018 Only 20 minutes from Duhok by highway lies Zawita. Similar to Duhok, the original town is just under a cleft in the Zagros mountains that forms a pass for travelers headed onward to Amedi {See: Amedi }. Zawita has a higher elevation than Duhok and is the beginning of the remaining green in those mountains. Today Zawita's main claim to fame is a series of fish restaurants built right into the sides of the mountain wher
Spain: Tarifa
Calle Segismundo Moret, Tarifa, Spain. December 2019 Misiana Hotel and Restaurant, Tarifa, Spain. December 2019 The end of Europe The...
Fort Tryon Park
Spring flowers, Fort Tryon Park. 1990 Favorite Manhattan places (part 2) I have waxed lyrical about the Winter Garden {see: Winter...
Spain: Algeciras
Rock of Gibraltar behind me, Algeciras, Spain. December 2019 The slow train to Green Island The plane landed late enough in Madrid that...
Asir National Park: Al Habala
Al Habala, Asir, Saudi Arabia. December 2013 The nanny-state ruins my view [From FB: December 5, 2013] Finally made it out to this huge...
Smithsonian Institute: the Smithson Crypt
Smithson Crypt, Smithsonian Castle. December 2021 The strange story of James Smithson and the creation of the Smithsonian Institution always fascinated me. What if? .A boy is born illegitimately (and secretly) to an English Duke of Northumberland and a widowed, aristocratic mother, a Percy, of royal English descent in Paris. Paris is a hotbed of politics and intrigue in 1765, so the family whisks him off to the motherland. There, he studies at Oxford and distinguishes h
Iraq: bar snacks
Efes Beer Cafe, Nohadra, Duhok. December 2018 Culturally appropriate bar snacks and bootleg whisky Efes Beer Cafe in Nohadra - a lot of...
UAE: The Frame, Dubai
Dubai Frame from Zabeel Park. December 2018 Build it and they will come On visits to Dubai over the years, MWK and I took the metro to...
Colonel Robert Magaw Place
Colonel Robert Magaw Place. Winter 1988 How we found an apartment in New York City in 1988 in one day Colonel Robert Magaw was a staunch...
National Gallery of Art - West Wing
Ginevra de' Benci, Leonardo da Vinci, National Gallery of Art. December 2021 Winter wandering memories - tales of two paintings From...
Jeddah: Bafarat Cafe
Bafarat Cafe, Jeddah. November 2017 Coffee paradise found and lost and found AM, one of my few Saudi friends from outside Abha {see:...
Lancaster County: Chiques Creek
Chiques Creek, Lancaster Junction Rail Trail, Lancaster County. December 2020 The name Chiques (also Chickies), as pointed out by my...
Najran: A Journey to Najran
Old Houses, Najran. December 2016 [from FB post: December 10, 2016] "Into the war zone" I think you noticed a week back perhaps I posted...
FUTURES, Arts & Industries, Smithsonian Institute
FUTURES, Artist: Stephanie Syjuco, Arts and Industry Building, Smithsonian Institute. December 2021 St Louis, bad karma, and "future...
UAE: Dubai Canal
Helix Bridge, Dubai Canal. December 2018 Never say never - more questions than answers I imagine if I had been in Dubai 20 years ago...
Lancaster County: White Cliffs of Conoy
White Cliffs of Conoy, Lancaster County. December 2020 When pollution is beautiful During those long pandemic walks with my brother, we...
Jeddah: Corniche Sculpture Park
Open Museum, Al Hamra Corniche, Jeddah. November 2017 Isle of Misfit Art At one end of the Al Hamra Corniche lies an oval green space...
The National Gallery of Art - East Wing
National Gallery of Art - East Wing. December 2021 Of memories and dynasties The National Gallery of Art's East Wing opened June 1, 1978, the design offspring of the prolific I.M.Pei. The first non-neoclassical building on the Mall was greeted with much fanfare. I arrived in Washington a year later, so the gallery itself was still a "phenomenon". I remember being impressed by the stark clean lines and towering spaces. The connecting tunnel under 4th Street and its peopl
UAE: Abu Dhabi
View from Kaser Al Amwaj, Abu Dhabi, UAE. December 2010 Two snapshots In the Jakarta years, Brian and I traveled back to the US via...
Italy: Via Latina, Rome
Via Latina, Rome. November 2016 [From FB Post: December 3, 2016] Once again, FB friends and family, thank you for patiently bearing...
