Wanderlust Cafe

Go, said the bird, for the leaves were full of children,
Hidden excitedly, containing laughter.
– T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Accidental photo alchemy, a hurried photo from a moving bus.  The park in Dominica was full of people on that warm island day.
Best I could do was snap a photo, and try to figure it all out [...]

An early morning image along the Nile River, accidentally turned sideways, suddenly reveals the boundary between the ‘real’ world and a hidden world.    If  you look closely, you can discern the banks of the river on the right and their reflection on the left.
Such a thin boundary.  From this sideways point of view, it is [...]

Beside a busy street in the Giza section of Cairo, our bus passed the fruit stand so quickly that it was almost a blur.  But hidden in the original crummy photo were the faint imprints of the vivid colors I remember.
A little bit of Photoshop photo alchemy, and the transformation captures more accurately the color [...]

My heart sings as I contemplate a return.  Istanbul or Constantinople or Byzantium,  this beautiful city straddling the Bosphorus at the crossroads between Europe and Asia has called to me for many years.
Such an aura of mystery and intrigue, a blending of exotic and known.  At this gateway to the unknown, I come again, and [...]

One of the men told me he thought well of Cairo.  It was interesting.  “Take it from me,” he said, “there’s a lot in seeing places, because you can remember ‘em afterward.”
– Rudyard Kipling
This was a hurried moment in downtown Cairo.  Captured while rushing past many intriguing stores and shops on a quest for some [...]