>A few weeks ago, Ali took our neighbor, Omer Amca, to Kumluca. They bought two goats there, to be slaughtered during Kurban Bayrami, the sacrifice holiday, which is this week. Ali returned home with a crate of pomegranates and a sack of potatoes, but Omer Amca was still left with a sense of indebtedness towards …
Author: Garden Correspondent
Gardener, mom, reader, and all round messy person.
>juice
>We changed our clocks over the weekend, which meant that Sunday was my favorite day of the year – a 25 hour day, perfect for getting things done. On Saturday, we had taken Ali to the airport to go to Istanbul. On the way down to the main road, we ran into our neighbor Osman, …
>rain at last!
>September was a completely demoralizing month, because summer refused to release us from its grip, and the blazing hot days stretched right through the month into the first week of October. At the end of September, we celebrated the Mid Autumn Moon Festival with moon cakes that my mother sent us all the way from …
>Leaping lizard
>At Kemer, there is a Ramazan fair for the kids. It opens, naturally, after dark, and there are four attractions: bumper cars, a sedate sort of train ride, a merry go round, and a trampoline.Baki had been dying to go, so last night we went on an after dark shopping/fair expedition. Baki had a lot …
>moon gazing
>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 …
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