In my neighborhood

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Thought I’d try posting a couple sets of photos since I arrived, then maybe see if I can just post individual photos more often, since batches don’t seem to work from the phone.

Every hour of the day there are people walking or running along the coastal sidewalk.
Evening is when more people hang out in the parks overlooking the water, either on their own or with friends and family.
Yesterday, there were two women taking photos in the water!
This is early morning and these two are regulars.
This is the Photography Museum near me that is in an old military fortress. I should try to get a better image of the exhibit on the right, which is about distancing during COVID. [I stopped by and got some closer photos of the exhibit that I’ll add to the bottom of this post.]
That’s Oudaya in the background, the oldest part of town on a high point overlooking the ocean.
Here are a few more market shots from my very first day at the market. I need to get some better photos…but at least there are a few interesting veggies, maybe, for Ray.
Fuzzy melon, which the wonderful biologist Bashira Chowdhury is working on with South Asian gardeners in the southeastern US, in Alabama, Georgia, and Texas. The Bangladeshi students at my community garden in Greensboro grew it, too, and you can see a clip of one of the gardeners, Brinta, pollinating the beautiful white flowers that are likely attracting moths at https://dunleathgarden.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/brinta-helps-female-bottle-gourd-flowers-get-the-pollen-they-need-to-produce-fruit/. She also wrote a lovely blog about using pumpkin at https://dunleathgarden.wordpress.com/2020/05/09/our-pumpkin-story/.
I think this is cardoon, a relative of artichoke.
I brought home one of these delicious melons. Some have red painted at both ends. Anyone know why?
I should have gotten a photo of the conical ceramic lid that makes this tajine. The veggies cover the piece of chicken or beef below.

I’m not sure if they do washing or just pressing…but they may have chosen the name because the avenue it’s on is Rue Amerique.

Probably more than enough for one day, though I may try to post some of Oudaya, too…wishing all well!!

[Later] Adding a few photos from the Photography Museum exhibit. It’s photos of people dealing with COVID from around the world. There’s a video about it in French (I thought maybe I could all the photos online, but no luck so far) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4mippwTris.

2 thoughts on “In my neighborhood”

  1. Yes, I do love the veggie photos, and photos of food in general. In the photo with Cardoon, what is the pink/red vegetable to the right? They look like carrots, but the leaves look weird for carrots

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