We have begun to get settled into Honolulu, and establishing our routines here. One of my personal routines is membership into the Eyes of Hawaii camera club here. At the request of members, I have created a couple of narrated slide shows. The most recent slide show, that will be shown in August, when we […]
Namibia 2 – Quiver Trees
We have now joined the photo tour with Squiver that we came to Namibia for, led by Ryan Dyar. Internet in Namibia is very slow, and frequently non-existant. This blog has been waiting in our queue to publish, and is actually being posted 10 days into the trip. As such, we already have quite a bit […]
Orchid Wall 2016
The Orchid Wall flower show is on display this weekend, running through Sunday, November 27 at the Casa de la Provincia, on the edge of Parque San Blas. As I write this, the show still has one day for you to catch it. If you like flowers, and orchids in particular, you should set aside […]
Turkey 11 – Tulips in Emirgan Park
Dead? Dead! OMG, they are all dead! ☹ Emirgan Park is the largest park in Istanbul, and famed for the tulips that are planted each Spring, filling the park with color from early April until early May. As with much of the world, this year has been unusually hot, causing the tulips to bloom earlier […]
Turkey 10 – Pera Museum and Sunset
Today was another day of exploring the European side of Istanbul, and testing our new lenses. We planned to start off with a visit to the Pera Museum, which meant once again using the metro subway and ferry to get there. The subway comes every 5 minutes on Saturdays (“1 DK” and “6 DK” indicate […]
10,000 Types of Orchids Plus Guitars
Gonna be a rather long post tonight, as this was a busy day with lots of stuff happening. I have attempted to add subtitles tonight, to let you tune in where desired, or skip areas you are not interested in. Driver Recommendation We had three different people recommend Angel Panchez (phone: 0985899643, email: anhelp_68@yahoo.com) as […]