Thursday, June 30, 2011

A few more pictures from Istanbul...

Here is Dianne and myself at the Blue Mosque...











And here is a band shot high a-top the Barcode Cafe building on the Asian side of Istanbul...









And here is St. Sophia in Iznik (Nicaea) from about the late 300 CE - it had first been a church and later a mosque and is now a sacred museum...












And finally here are a bunch of kids eating freshly roasted corn from a street vendor in Istanbul...

random thoughts on ash wednesday 2026...

I did not grow up observing Ash Wednesday. As a middle-class, white Protestant child of New England in the 50s and 60s, it was just my Roma...