DAILY PHOTO: Tbilisi Scene from Queen Darejani Palace

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A photograph taken in Tbilisi, Georgia with Metekhi Church of the Nativity of the Mother of God in the fore (left) and Narikala Fortress in the background (probably from Queen Darejani Palace.)

DAILY PHOTO: The Crescent, Baku

A photograph of The Crescent Residences, an architecturally interesting building on Baku's Caspian shoreline.

DAILY PHOTO: Distant Mountains

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Photograph taken in northern Armenia. Purple flowers in the fore, mountains in the distant background, and partly cloudy skies.

DAILY PHOTO: View from the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration, Tbilisi

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A photograph of the Botanical Street / Narikala Fortress area of Tbilisi, Georgia from the Tabor Monastery of the Transfiguration.

PROMPT: Live Anywhere

Daily writing prompt
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Someplace inexpensive, with beaches and hikeable hilly / mountainous terrain within a reasonable distance, and where beer prices are not disproportionately high vis-a-vis the general cost of living. FYI — I call the latter the “stick-up-the-bum” index because if beer prices are relatively high, it usually means they are heavily sin-taxed (it’s not an expensive product to make,) and so disproportionately high beer prices suggest the society is trying to micromanage personal behavior. I may or may not want a beer (I’ll want one,) but I prefer to live in a society with a live-and-let-live mentality. Candidates exist in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Central Asia / Caucus region.

ARMENIA LIMERICK

There was an artist from Armenia
Who worked in many a media.
Work iconoclastic…
Or pornographic;
Often it started straitlaced but got seedy-ya.

GEORGIA LIMERICK

There was a famed Georgian vintner
who thought about wines all winter –
as he thought, he drank,
and -- let us be frank –
he became less vintner than drinker.

AZERBAIJAN LIMERICK

There was a young man from Azerbaijan
who needed something to prop his feet on.
Thoughts of Ottoman rule,
He'd learned of in school,
made resting his feet on an Ottoman right on!

DAILY PHOTO: History Museum of Armenia

DAILY PHOTO: Baku Highrises