Mongolia A Morin Khuur is a two-stringed instrument played upright on your lap with a bow of stallion hair. This one is resting on a peg inside a yurt. It was played in the evening at nomadic structures in the…
Monthly Archives: July 2019
Nighttime Neighbors
As I’ve mentioned, Acadia National Park (a.k.a. Bar Harbor or Mount Desert Island) is one of my favorite summertime destinations. One time… I was exhausted but sleep would not come. Perhaps I was getting too old for a tent. I kept…
Posted in Just for Fun
Taj Mahal
Agra. I remember bicycling in the early morning hours to reach the Taj Mahal at dawn. To me, it was very beautiful and quintessential India. In the mid 1600s, the white marble monument was built as a tomb for Shah…
Posted in World Glimpses
