>snapshots of the moon are generally pretty pointless, and this one is no exception, but the full moon on the 24th got me all excited. september 22 will be the mid-autumn moon festival, the brightest moon of the year. this is one of my favorite holidays ever, and the full moon that precedes it never …
Month: August 2010
>enchanted evenings
>Baki, Yayla, Deniz, and NurunisaOn August 20, Ali’s niece, Nurunisa got married. The wedding really began at the neighborhood hairdresser. Fatos, the aunt of the bride, and I pushed aside the wooden beaded curtain at Buyukdere’s local hair salon to find the groom’s sisters already there. The hairdresser allowed himself a brief frisson of excitement …
>Meet jack
>This is one of our roosters, Jack. Unlike Bob, in what we call the “lower coop,” we’ve had Jack since he was a gangly chick of about two months or so. Ali went into Kumluca one day and came back with a box that cheeped and shook in the back seat. Our friends at Sundance …
>volcanic
>When too much time goes by, there is just too much to catch up on. I have been away from the garden twice and written nothing. The first time, I went to London to visit my auntie Rosie in the hospital. She is not, strictly speaking, my aunt; she put it best when she introduced …
Garden Correspondent 