Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Bangladesh
It's avian influenza that brings me to Bangladesh, which means my photos are mostly of live poultry markets -- what we in the biz call "wet markets". But they're the best darn pictures of Bangladeshi wet markets you will see today.
How did I end up with this job?
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| The boq bike: predawn bike commuting is for the birds. |
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| Boq bike, part 2. Note the crows waiting to eat any delicious chickens that may happen to keel over from bird flu, and then excrete virus all over surrounding neighborhoods. |
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| The manager of this particular wet market claimed that 500,000 birds change hands there every day. |
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| Inside the wet market. |
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"Won't the customers be put off by a white guy walking around wearing a respirator?"
"Nah, they're used to it." And they were! |
Labels: Bangladesh, H5N1, virus-pooping carrion eaters
Japanese T-Shirt
I'm putting the far-flung in the Far-Flung Ryan-Silva Media Empire again, this time with what I'm calling the Bang-Bang tour. Bangladesh and Bangkok, sandwiched between two thin but delicious layers of Tokyo layover.
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| Spotted at Loft in Shibuya. Incomprehensible? Yes. But the kindest t-shirt featuring a US President I have seen abroad in a long while. |
Labels: Rainbow Drive-In
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Dress-up
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| Isabel dips into the dress-up box and comes up with one outfit for her... |
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| ...one for Bobby... |
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| ...and one for Daddy. |
Labels: Elton John, firemen, four-eyed fairy princess
Saturday, March 07, 2009
The Empire Strikes Back
It has been a busy winter, with a couple of hospital stays and some frenzied activity to get the condo ready for sale -- perhaps an optimistic venture. So excuse the long lull.
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| Bobby plays peekaboo with the laundry; a favorite game of his sister's at that age. |
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| Isabel shows off her spontaneously conceived "crab costume" -- scissors attached to her fingers with tape. She had some trouble getting the second set of scissors on. I thought it was pretty clever. |
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| Bobby eyes his sister suspiciously, perhaps looking for hidden scissors. |
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| Daddy and Isabel discover that the play tunnel also makes a great worm costume. |
Labels: crabs, scissors, skepticism
