Walk in the Hood

 That white smudge on the grass is the neighborhood alpha dog, Pamuk (Cotton). He followed us for about 10 minutes on our walk and then got distracted by rolling around in the new grass.

Suddenly, playground! We haven't walked this way in a while I guess. The playground equipment fits in with the candy colored apartment buildings.

In the center distance, you can probably see the minaret of the mosque that is right across from our building. The blue and orange things are exercise equipment. Of course, these are placed in the direct sun. 

How the park is really used by the Koç University students.

Another gift from the KU students: "Base Station" graffiti.

On the other side of the park, there is a dirt road to a lake. Up ahead are the goats and the goatherd.

There's the lake and the minaret again...

Weekend Visit!

City Random-scape

Picnic at Yıldız Park

Spring-timery at Park Evleri

Flip-Book Venuses

We recently made a trip to the Istanbul Archeology Museum, which is usually one of my favorites but now it's being renovated. There was a new exhibit showing 19th century research of materials from their collection; I suppose it was a consolation exhibit to make up for all of the closed galleries. In any case, the images above are crying out to be made a flip-book, Terry Gilliam style, of course.