Window on the World: Stone Town, Zanzibar

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The last in my Window on the World response to the Weekly Photo Challenge.   The bright morning sun through this window caught my eye when I was in Stone Town last March.

More photos in this Window on the World series:

Sankhu village in Nepal

Charleston, South Carolina 

Rabat, Morocco

Gvarv in Telemark, Norway

Machu Picchu, Peru

Window on the World: Machu Picchu, Peru

I’m having fun with the Weekly Photo Challenge theme Window this week!   Here is a photo that I took in what was once the residential part of Machu Picchu in Peru.  Wouldn’t it be lovely to look out your window and see these cute llamas?

More photos in this Window on the World series:

Sankhu village in Nepal

Charleston, South Carolina 

Rabat, Morocco

Gvarv in Telemark, Norway

And one more photo – taken through a window at Machu Picchu. Enjoy!

Window on the World: Gvarv, Telemark, Norway

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 Windows look out over farms and apple orchards.

My grandfather came from this area near the town of Gvarv in mid-Telemark, Norway.

(Photo credit to my husband Charles.)

More photos in this Window on the World series:

Sankhu village in Nepal

Charleston, South Carolina 

Rabat, Morocco

Machu Picchu, Peru

For more interpretations on the Weekly Photo Challenge theme: Window, click here.

Window on the World: Rabat, Morocco

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A window in a wall inside the Kasbah in Rabat, Morocco.

More photos in this Window on the World series:

Sankhu village in Nepal

Charleston, South Carolina 

Gvarv in Telemark, Norway

For more interpretations on the Weekly Photo Challenge theme: Window, click here.

Window on the World: Charleston, South Carolina

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Catfish Row
Charleston, South Carolina

Warm light spills from a window near the entrance to Catfish Row on a late December evening. Catfish Row, the fictional location of the American folk opera Porgy & Bess, was inspired by this area (actually called “Cabbage Row”) near Church Street in downtown Charleston. 

More photos in this Window on the World series:

Sankhu village in Nepal

Rabat, Morocco

Gvarv in Telemark, Norway

For more interpretations on the Weekly Photo Challenge theme: Window, click here.

Window on the World: Sankhu, Nepal

Sanku village, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

A woman watches the world go by from her window in the village of Sankhu in Nepal.

For more interpretations on the Weekly Photo Challenge theme: Window, click here.

More in this Window on the World photo series:

Charleston, South Carolina

Rabat, Morocco

Gvarv in Telemark, Norway

Weekly Photo Challenge: Beginning

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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language

And next year’s words await another voice.

And to make an end is to make a beginning.”

                                                                              ~T.S. Eliot

From Little Gidding (1942), the final poem in T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets

 

Landfall on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina.

See more Weekly Photo Challenge photos here.

Weekly Photo Challenge: One

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Cow in Casablanca

A single cow grazes  amidst the trash in a working class neighborhood in suburban Casablanca, Morocco.

This post is a response to the Weekly Photo Challenge theme One.

Weekly Photo Challenge: Community

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As part of their Community Health initiative, a Cameroonian non-governmental organization developed this map of the city of Douala.  Douala,  a major Central African port and the commercial capital of Cameroon, is in the departement of Wouri.

The map shows the locations of  potential transmission sites for HIV/AIDS,  STDs and TB.

It was created based on information gathered through field work in the community.  Staff members use it to target their outreach and community health intervention strategies to effectively reach the most at-risk populations.

This post is a response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Community.

The Grandeur of the Acropolis

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Columns of the Parthenon, which was built in the 5th century BC.

The Acropolis, perched on a rocky hilltop above the bustle of Athens, is one of the grandest historical sites that I have had to opportunity to visit.   I’m sharing a few photos from my 2012 visit in response to the Weekly Photo Challenge: Grand.  If you have never had the opportunity to experience the grandeur of the Acropolis, you can take a virtual tour here.  Happy Sunday!

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View of the Acropolis from the Temple of Olympian Zeus. Construction on this temple began in the 6th century BC.
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The porch of the Caryatids on the south side of the Erechtheion.

 

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The Sacred Olive Tree on the north side of the Erechteion.  It is said to be a descendant of the olive tree that Athena gave to the ancient Greeks, causing them to name their city “Athens” in her honor.  Every invader has cut it down, but every time someone has saved a sprig to replant later.