Photos from the protest camp at Taksim Sq, Istanbul.
Life seems to have returned to the city, where just a few years ago the trees in the public parks were cut down for firewood and the Olympic ice rink was used as a makeshift morgue.
Yesterday I went to see Thievery Corp and Massive Attack playing at the Greek Theater in Berkeley.
The titan arum or Amorphophallus titanum (from Ancient Greek amorphos, “without form, misshapen” + phallos, “penis”, and titan, “giant”) is a flowering plant with the largest unbranched inflorescence in the world.
The end of November. Sofia, Bulgaria. I should be wearing a sweater underneath a zipped-up parka. A woolen hat, mittens perhaps. It used to snow here in November – a few centimeters, no more, the pleasant foreplay of winter, but enough for all the horned up skiers and snowboarders to start waxing their toys, glancing up occasionally at the white, diaphanous lingerie of nearby Mount Vitosha (2290 m).