In Cappadocia, Turkey, they hang jars on trees. I took a photo of this one in 2011. Why hang jars on trees? you ask. So did I, and I was told that the Tree of Jars was a symbol of abundance in Turkey. I guess maybe it’s a good thing if you’re rich enough to…
In 2011 I went to Turkey with my friend Sharyn. That westward-leaning peninsula has been the crossroads of continents for millennia and everyone who did so left their mark, but especially the Greeks and the Romans. It’s no wonder Turkey has twenty-one world heritage sites; they could easily have twenty-one more. But my favorite was…
[More about my trip to Turkey, whether you want to hear about it or not] On the way to Gocek, our guide, the wonderful Serra, pulled off the highway near Kalkan. A switchbacky dirt road took us up the side of a mountain. We went around a corner and beheld this. It’s a Roman aqueduct…
They say there are more Greek and Roman ruins in Turkey than there are in Italy and Greece. I just got back from Turkey and I believe it, but what is even more marvelous is that the ruins are so accessible. If we had stuff like that over here, it would be sequestered behind a…
