A little more spring!

So tiny!

The view at my desk in the office

If I were staying longer, I might need a bigger cork board...

Another 14,000 steps!

Today has been one of the best spring days yet! My friend Blake and I got out and about to enjoy it (while poor Alex stayed home to rest because of a cold.)

This is the doorbell for Istanbul University's Botanical Garden. A guard did answer the bell, but the garden is closed on the weekend. Another time...

 

Photo: Blake Shedd

Photo: Blake Shedd 
And, yes, I brought some baklava home for Alex, too!

 The cats sunning themselves back at the apartment complex.

Spring Sunset

After a grey, rainy day!

It's good you exist!

It's good you exist, my Nur!

 

This gentle graffiti showed up on the fence across from the bus stop recently. I think it's sweet. A Turkish woman who saw me taking the photo called it nonsense, and said that, really, it should be 

İyi ki, not İyiki. Everybody's a critic, I guess...

What do you get when you ask for vegetarian curry at an Indonesian restaurant in Istanbul?

Reader, I ate it all...

 and it was delicious.

A Sign of Spring?

It could be!