Old tree

 

This valley is not well known at all - access is through a narrow ravine, and the valley is full of old abandoned houses. On top of one of the hills is a whole abandoned village. Will post some pics of that later.

Dubai

 

This was taken on the beach right next to the Burj al Arab - in the this neighbourhood of million dollar homes there are still little pockets of old Arab homes left over. They are fast disappearing though. The land is so valuable that change is inevitable

Sunset on the creek

 

Arabian bees

 

This is the strangest looking beehive I've ever seen, very unlike the African beehives I grew up with. We have three hives like this in the garden. And the bees are not aggressive at all....

11 November - Remembrance Day -

Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other
That we are still
Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way you always used
Put no difference into your tone
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the ghost of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant