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Kerala, India 2009 A small boat used for tours lies at anchor in a rice canal near Alleppy in southern India. Small homes line the spits of land between the rice paddies and the palm lined canals that criss-cross them. We floated past at a … Continue reading
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China: Yunnan Province 2005 I think of Shangri La when I see this photo: the small plots of cropland cascading colors of red, yellow and green, ending in a ‘river’ of color flowing between the mountains. Shangri La implies a paradise, though, and … Continue reading
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Moynak,Uzbekistan 2012 Once one of the four largest lakes in the world, the Aral sea has been drained to irrigate cotton fields and recently fruits and vegetables. Most of the drained water was lost due to porous irrigation channels. The Russians … Continue reading
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Burma 2011: U Bein Bridge A lone monk who seems to carry the weight of the world on his shoulders crosses the U Bein Bridge. The skeletons of the bare trees add a sense of desolation and loneliness.
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St. Petersburg, Russia 2009 Another shot from the bus window. We had no free day, no day to be on the loose in this beautiful old city. St. Petersburg has so many world-famous museums, palaces and monasteries to see that I … Continue reading
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Transylvania 2012 There were many “highlights” on my trip through Romania, but I must say staying at the Kalnoky estate was one I’ll never forget. (http://www.rosemarysheel.com/archives/kalnoky-estate) Daniel, my guide, (www.covinnus.com) and I met early to take a photo walk through … Continue reading
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Kyrgyzstan 2012 Torie loved these little trailer like houses. We’d see them sitting forlornly in the middle of an empty prairie or next to a railroad track. They looked, to me, to be an old railroad car with the wheels … Continue reading
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China 2007 Doesn’t the wall remind you of a dragon as it makes it way over the mountains? We had taken a taxi to the wall to avoid crowds of tourists. As we began our walk we noticed a ski-lift. … Continue reading
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Morocco 1998 My guide owned a Land Rover and he loved to drive on the piste, which is a French word for dirt track. I liked it, too, because we’d often come across people who lived the way people in … Continue reading
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Romania 2012 Have you ever seen some of Van Gogh’s early drawings? He couldn’t get the hang of perspective. His drawings looked a lot like something you or I would draw. Then he learned about and decided to buy something called … Continue reading
