DAILY PHOTO: Evergreen Trees on the Mountain

Taken in the summer of 2019 at the Kolsai Lakes in Kazakhstan

DAILY PHOTO: Garden and Colonnade, Almaty

DAILY PHOTO: Walking Charyn Canyon

Taken in the Summer of 2019 in Kazakhstan

DAILY PHOTO: Kazakh Wildflowers, Medeu

Taken at Medeu, Kazakhstan in August of 2019

Almaty Limerick

A visitor to scenic Almaty
was dismayed to find no apple trees.
He couldn't be blamed;
it's right in the name,
but he's stuck with a store picking spree.

DAILY PHOTO: Charyn Canyon; Black Canyon

Taken in Kazakhstan in the summer of 2019

DAILY PHOTO: Green Hills Under Blue Skies

Taken in the Summer of 2019 near Middle Kolsay Lake (Kolsay-2)

Kazakhstani Limerick

There was an old man from Kazakhstan
happy to hear of the testing ban.
His house didn’t explode,
but sometimes it glowed.
&
Despite a lead vest he still had a tan.

DAILY PHOTO: Medeu Winter Sports Complex in Summertime

Taken in the summer of 2019 at Medeu Valley

POEM: The Devil’s Face

Can you see it?

That which the natives call the Devil’s Face?

Sure, you’ve seen Jesus in a tortilla
& the potato-face Madonna,
and you wrote them off as something
in your brain circuitry that loves a face.

But turn up the sun, pull out all the water
and you start to think…