ALICE WITH ALETA a friend of ours who is now home in New Zealand for the Summer holidays. Next year she will be teaching Jensen at the Grace International School in Gulshan, Dhaka.
Tag Archive: Dhaka
NICE VASE
The footballers gave us this vase as a 40th anniv. gift. I then had it filled with 20 roses. Note two of our grandsons playing football in the right side background.
FOURTIETH ANNIVERSARY COUPLE
We celebrated with our family on the rooftop of a restaurant under a section of tin roof in a torrential downpour! Precious memories. Some amazing lightning and thunder.
FOURTIETH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIION
I wanted to celebrate our 40th anniv. with the footballers I play with on weekends so I had a special meal ordered for them for after our game. They also came with this cake.
VEGGIE RAP
My grandson, Riley helped sing a song called “Veggie Rap”, in which he was dressed in green as the (green) bean!
DRINKING TEA
I decided to interrupt the Nepal photos with this photo my friend took of me sipping Bengali tea during a photo shoot in Old Dhaka. A bus driver who ran the route from Holmes Co., Ohio to Sarasota, Fl. was discussing me with my Mom in Florida. He said it is the fellow who looks out over the top of his glasses. I guess he was right! I’d like to thank my friend Matthias, who dropped this photo onto my desktop while I was in Nepal.
LADY WALKING
The other morning while walking to Banani I passed this lady. I stopped to take some photos, she passed me, and then I passed her again. After that she never quite caught up with me before I moved on after taking a photo of some street scenes. She must have wondered about this funny American that is so taken up with the Dhaka scenery. I think I took 87 photos on that 1.5 hour walk.
MOTORCYCLES
There are some motorcycles here in the city, though not as many as in Thailand.
These are parked in this area, while their owners are jogging, walking, or exercising in a nicely kept area just North of the Parliament building. I remember from my childhood days that my Mother owned a Singer sewing machine, and likely still does. Coming to Bangladesh I realized that Singer also makes motorcyles, and maybe even refrigerators.
MUSLIM Painter
This fellow told me to wait to take his photo. He stopped painting and reached into his pocket and took out his tupi, saying that he is a Muslim. I then took his photo with the tupi on.
CANON
I enjoy taking photos with my Canon Rebel XTI camera. I took this photo with my EF 50 mm 1: 1.8, which is my favorite lens. The shot was taken at 1/400 sec and f 5.0 at ISO 100.
KRISHNACHURA tree is showing its beautiful blossoms along this road behind the Parliament Building. I took a 1 1/2 hour walk from Iqbal Rd to Banani to get to a meeting on Thursday instead of taking public transportation. It was a very nice walk: taking photos, chatting with another pedestrian, soaking in the morning breeze, absorbing the morning sun, and a little sweat soaking the back of my shirt. All in all a pleasant walk.
WATERMELON
The Bengalis are one of the people groups who do such a great job of arranging their foods in an attractive way. In Old Dhaka I spied this watermelon cut and ready for hot, hungry pedestrians passing by, to indulge in.
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