ALI BEING GOOD
-TriciVenola ©2010
Ali was so good at being good that he wound up being a successful film producer.
GHOST OF ISTANBUL PAST
-Nizam – Bayram -Ten years after. Ghost of Istanbul past: old friends Nizam & Bayram getting boiled on vodka & coke celebrating Nizam’s return from Bingöl. These guys used to be the sum & total of my experience in Istanbul, God bless ‘em.TriciVenola ©2010
I wrote a book about Nizam. No, I did not publish it. I published stories from it.
AT NUMBER 19
-Starved for nature from too long among Istanbul’s ugly stumps, I am drunk on the trees! All over Plovdiv spring riots in full celebration, down to the tiniest tasseled twig.-TriciVenola ©2010
It was always inconvenient to go, but I really miss those trips to Plovdiv.
WALLS OF GREEN
-Ancient city, Plovdiv, May 3 2010-Sitting on a wall next to a stone path winding through hilly parkland. Walls of spring green with black branches shot through with white blossoms and trills of birdsong. Church bells. TriciVenola ©2010
AN ALLEY IN PLOVDIV
-Alley in Oldtown Plovdiv -TriciVenola ©2010