DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Budapest, circa 1999

Dohány Street Synagogue; Winter of 1999
Halászbástya, i.e. Fisherman’s Bastion in Buda Castle
Széchenyi Lánchíd; i.e. the Chain Bridge
Budavári Palota; Buda Castle Palace

DAILY PHOTO: Solah Khamba Masjid

Taken in August of 2022 in Bidar

DAILY PHOTO: Knoll

Taken in November of 2021 near Galax, Virginia

Luck of the Lost [Poem]

Being lost
is underrated.

Overblown:
devastating?

But you've not seen
what I've seen:
a world that I 
could not have known,
had the signs 
not been overgrown.

And had I not ventured 
beyond boundary lines,
and tried my very best to find
some ancient item -
long lost to time.

Stumbling,
weary,
but wanting more;

I wandered,
knocking door-to-door.

But none could tell me 
where I was,
because they couldn't
see me from above.

All they knew was that 
I was "here,"
and so, it was as I had feared.

Because I'd left to get away
from here,
in search of some magic where --
an unknown "there,"
far from here.

DAILY PHOTO: Green Hill Under Monsoon Skies

Taken in October of 2020 at Devaramane Betta

DAILY PHOTO: Nakhon Nayok Ganesha Park

Taken in the Summer of 2014 at Nakhon Nayok’s Ganesha Park

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Golconda Fort

Taken in August of 2022 at Golconda Fort

DAILY PHOTO: Oktogon, Budapest

Taken in the Summer of 2011 in Budapest
Taken in the Winter of 2014 in Budapest

DAILY PHOTO: Modhera Sun Temple

Taken in September of 2017 at Modhera

DAILY PHOTO: Chicago

Taken on August of 2018