A rare blanketing of snow in Tarabya, Sarıyer, Istanbul, right now

The holy spring is surrounded by Atsushi Miyazaki Parkı, named for a Japanese man who came to do relief work after the 2011 Van earthquake, but was killed in an aftershock

In my neighborhood of Tarabya, Sarıyer, Istanbul, is this little house, inside which, apparently, is a holy spring dedicated to St Kyriaki, from Nicomedia (today İzmit) and martyred under Emperor Diocletian

Quote with your own bridge photo!

I guess you mean the mos maiorum is being rejected; but that's to work damnatio memoriae, something I learned in 2008 from visiting this example, the Severan Bridge, missing the column dedicated to Severus's son Geta after his killing by his brother Caracalla (dedicatee of the remaining column)

I just posted this on Twitter (taken at the Jameh Mosque of Isfahan, Iran, September 1, 2012) as an example of the kind of idolatry that the US President-elect exhibits by selling a Bible with his name printed at the top of the cover

Feel free to post your own beach photo.

This one shows Lesbos as seen from Turkey, September 18, 2024

Quote with a picture you took of water

I visited Cyrus's Tomb on a day trip from Shiraz in 2012, when the Non-Aligned Movement had been meeting in Iran, and perhaps the posters were aimed mainly at the delegates.

I was summoned to the police station the next day; the authorities were worried about an international incident

7. Finally, Paestum, June 12, 2013. There's a blog post from the occasion, but about books

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5. Temple of Hephaestus in Athens: I did visit the Agora in 2005, but had no camera

6. Temple of Artemis in Ephesus. From June 4, 2008, here's one of the columns they set up

3. Haven't been to Olympus.

4. July 7, 2007, we passed Sounion by ferry from Athens to Lesbos, but all have about that is photos like this

Delphi, including the remains of the Temple of Apollo, July 13, 2017.

I used more pics in relevant blog post

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Parthenon in Athens, Monday, July 10, 2017.

We also visited Delphi, and I blogged about the trip

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The scene this afternoon at Kireçburnu, a.k.a. Κλειδὴς καὶ κλεῖθρα τοὺ Πόντου (“Lock and Key of the Pontus”), Sarıyer, Istanbul.

The three people sitting near the base of the beacon on the left were reading actual books.

Here's the front of that church, Chiesa della Madonna di Constantinopoli, with bench looking out to the Mediterranean

"Lady, whose shrine stands on the promontory,
"Pray for all those who are in ships …"

Reading that in T. S. Eliot's "Dry Salvages" while living near the Bosphorus in Istanbul, I recall visiting the Church of Our Lady of Constantinople in Agropoli, Italy, ten years ago (June 17, 2013)