For the whole effect please play this music. Once it gets going slowly scroll down for the full experience. Hope you enjoy this and have a wonderful day because of it.

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Mothers are cool

unless your a fool...

They taught you not to drool

and find your way home from school!

They cared when you were uncaring

and pushed you forward

when you were not daring

They were there when Dad was done

and stopped you from

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What Is Happiness

           Ephesus (Ephesos; Efes) is arguably the most famous and most significant ancient site of the Mediterranean world, with a history that spans Greece, Rome, Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire. Once a city of a quarter million souls, this five-thousand year… Read full post »

       This is my personal theory on time travel gleaned from a variety of historical events and legends. Although this is just speculative theory on my part, it still has some good points and is based on a number of solid ideas that are written about… Read full post »

 I might be a poet, but i don't know it.

Maybe my legs show it,  they are

Longfellows.

An April Day

            Morels are the premium items of the mushroom world. Arguably rivaled by the meat-like porcini, morels have a sturdy texture and a deep earthy flavor sauteed in butter. They are a favorite… Read full post »

This is one of the most charming Pareidolias I have ever found. Sometimes a tree is more than just a tree.

I call this the ElephantaTree. Make a wish because this is obviously a relative of Ganesh and this surreal Elephant can help you with all sorts of personal… Read full post »

                    Hekate & Cerberus, Apulian red-figure krater

       One of the loveliest, most subtle perfumes of springtime is from the flower of the laurel, which most of us know as bay leaf (Daphne in Greek or Turkish), the flavoring of stews and spaghetti sauces. 

      An evergreen, the laurel was rever… Read full post »

                          My original Channel and My current YouTube Channel 

           March 6, 2012 is a date many of us YouTubers will always shudd… Read full post »

        I met Güler Bener at a book-signing/lecture that my buddy Byron Ayanoglu recently gave in Bodrum for the translation of his book Crete on the Half Shell (Istiridye Üstü Girit in Turkish). The lovely lady, a long-time resident of Bitez's A… Read full post »

PARAPROSDOKIANS: "Figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected;

Frequently used in a humorous situation." "Where there's a will, I want to be in it," is a type of paraprosdokian.  Here are more paraprosdokians -

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      I love returning to places I have discovered during my many years of traveling around the world. Today's post takes me back to an old Byzantine chapel upon which I stumbled last year while wandering the dry stream beds outside Bitez Village. In it I had fo… Read full post »

In the beginning there was only slime.

It oozed green from the bowels of the earth, bubbling forth, 

celestial song heralding the moment

Please  start over  & watch  with this music for full effect. 

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It's time again for the annual 'Stella Awards'! For those unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald's in New Mexico , where she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid of

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      Cactus bristles with exuberant beauty, color, enchantment and a menacing covering of thorns, very much like life itself in these troubled times. Unlike other flowering thorny-plants, including the rose, the cactus offers no solace, no fragrance, no friendliness… Read full post »

          I've been showing a lot of photographs here at Open Salon, but I'm also a videographer. Two of my feature videos are on Culture-Unplugged, on-line film festival in their full-length versions. The works are exquisitely scored with o/… Read full post »

Open Call : What wouldn't you put on your resume ? I would have to say that in some cases, I am just way too sensitive. this is good too, because it is that sensitivity that makes me aware of oh so many things! Like my ability to… Read full post »

Museum specialist Sema Sagat had a very bright idea for a new showcase of one of the delights of Bodrum, Turkey. Working with the maritime traditions of this timeless Aegean port 

—famous since antiquity when it was known as Halicarnasus, birthplace of Herodotus, the f… Read full post »

 Büsra Velioglu was born and bred in Istanbul to a life of making jewelry, but she discovered her vocation by chance in faraway South Africa when she was already in her twenties. On a round-the-world cruise with seaman ex-husband Cenap, she found herself in Durban with nothing… Read full post »

The view from my second story window gives me an eyeful of Bitez Bay on the south-eastern Aegean coast of Turkey. I usually check it out to see if the bay is calm or somewhat wavy. If the conditions are right I hop down to the… Read full post »