Becky has spotted a Field fare looking for some winter lunch.
My kind of Uprising – The life of B (beckybofwinchester.com)
‘Up’ in a Trojan horse
Tag: Turkey
#March Square 26
The Ankara Museum of Anatolian Civilisations is a real treasure trove of ancient artifacts. i could have spent days there. I really liked this lion sculpture and luckily it is covered in round curls.
Not very fierce though is he? Becky’s been collecting lots of squares with circles this month, have you?
#March Square 25
I’m back in Turkey again today, with a photo from a village in Anatolia. I’ve ticked the boxes for Becky, with circles in my square.
It’s been a while since this lovely old cart’s been anywhere. I hope it doesn’t completely fall apart.
Just a week left now in March, you can still join in, Becky’s last Sunday March square is here!
Cheeky antiquity
Cheeky moi? No way,
Honestly, they made me do it!
Wordless Wednesday
This is a scheduled post, be back soon!
Celsus Ceiling
I’m joining Paula again this week, for her black and white day Sunday challenge. It has the theme of ‘Ceiling’, and I was tempted to post somewhere local, but then came across this photo taken at the library of Celsus, Ephesus, Turkey.
As it’s more than 2000 years old, perhaps it’s Paula’s oldest ceiling this week, we’ll see!
Weekly Photo Challenge, Order
Ben Huberman calls for order in this weeks photo challenge, and he has a tempting array of pastries in his well ordered photo.
The image below is one of my all time favourites and I may have posted it here before. This vast courtyard is part of the Ataturk Mausoleum complex in Ankara, the capital of Turkey. As well as the mausoleum which is the final resting place of Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey’s final resting place, there is a museum dedicated to his life.
A Spare Landscape
Pamukkale is a town in Western Turkey and its name means cotton castle. Part of the landscape looks like a large terrace of ice, but it is in fact a travertine terrace formed by mineral rich water cascading down a steep valley.
When I went, you could walk on the terraces, barefoot and at your own risk, because they were rather slippery. Now I believe you can only look from above, well done turkey for protecting this very unusual Unesco site. On a sunny day the surface looks turquoise, but here under a grey sky, and looking into the misty distance the landscape looks quite spare.
Paula’s Black and White Sunday, Texture
I’m posting for Paula, over at Lost inTranslation who says,
For this theme you are invited to translate the tactile quality of the surface of an object into an image, and to make it black and white.
I’ve chosen some texture from 2500 years ago, that’s getting more tactile as it ages.
Traces of the past
Paula is asking for images with traces of the past for her Thursday Special this week.
This is the Odeion at Troy in north west Anatolia, Turkey, it dates back to the Roman Troy 1X and was renovated in 124 AD, by Hadrian. I wonder if that was before or after he built the wall in the north of England, what a busy man. The Odeion has a semi-circular orchestra, surrounded by a wall of lime stone slabs, above which rise tiers of limestone seats, divided by aisles, into wedge shaped sections. Can you imagine the performances that took place there? I’m sure you can still hear the echoes on a hot, still day. . .
Thanks Paula, I could do lots of posts for this theme.
Lucid Gypsy 