around the world with ipuenktchen

my oldest friend from my childhood sent me this great summer pic
with roses from her own garden, the table-cloth even remembering her grand-mom!!!! (c)mascho



vorabend der sommersonnenwende - and best regards for summer solstice to my finnish friends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

since a month or more yashila_81 was collecting broken or damaged pottery items to decorate his terrasse at home!!!?!?! now he has a nice bunch and started to do this and has invited several friends for brain-storming today!!!



it's finished yet but we can imagine how it will be... *smile*

normally I'm turning always to 29... but the kids would cheer me up and wrote *20* on my b-day-cake!!!!!!! *bist* in farsi means *20*!!





and a loooooooooooooong dream since yeaaaaars got true and we made a trip in the really north-western end of IR to a part of the worldheritage *armenian monastic ensemble in IR* to the dzordzor chapel, which had been situated originally down the hills beside the river, and when they would dammed the rivers first they retrenched the chapel in 1987/ 88, bring it up on the hill 600 m away and rebuilt it just there!!!! so it is such a beautiful picture the dam with its phantastic blue and turquoise water and beside the mountains in beige, brown, grey and the tiny chapel among!!!!!!!!

a dream got true for me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it took us 8 hours for 700 km into nowhere untill back home again...!!!!!! and its only my son1 who is in the mood to drive a car and don't get tired!!!!!!!!!

I got really HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





do you found the chapel in the left?????????????



only sheeps allaround there..................
and the last 15 km we had to go on a gravel road....
but everything was worth to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_Dzordzor