I went to a gallery opening for a friend's photography exhibit on Friday night. http://www.phoenixvillageartcenter.org/gallery.html (Les Berkley photos). Photos were great and displayed more variety than is shown on the website. He had a series shot in historic ( ( Read more... )

I saw an interesting program on public television about attempts to restore the Mesopotamian marshlands of Iraq. In the program they showed amazing traditional reed houses, sometimes built on floating islands. They kind of reminded me of those timber houses that make you feel you are in an upside-down boat, but in this case, the boat would be Kon ( Read more... )