Over the hill carrying a lamb comes the shepherd with his horse and trusty sheepdog. He drops his crook and sits with the other shepherds digging into a big block of sheep cheese and wrapping it in the flat bread. And not a concern in the world about having us intrude on their breakfast time.
This remote, rolling green, tree-less expanse of hilly countryside mesmerises as we drive towards the Azerbaijan border to visit the cave monasteries founded by David Gareja, one of the ascetic ‘Syrian fathers’ who returned here in the 6th century from the Middle East bringing Christianity to Georgia.
A pack of sheepdogs racing up the hillside barking ferociously quickly sees us off our rock with picnic lunch bags flying, as we seek refuge inside the car.
Just as well Levan forgot the crystal and candelabra today or we may have lost them.
Please give the Photo Viewer some time to buffer. You can hover your mouse over the photos to read the captions.
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I’m experimenting with Photo Albums.
The one below is a Picasa Web Album and if you double click on it you can see the photos in a slideshow. You can share your preference of this versus the one above by leaving a Comment. Thank you.
Mick,
You wanted to know which people prefer, picasa slideshow or thumbnails.
The time it takes thumbnails to download and only 5 at a time, is not up with being able to see the whole picasa slideshow at once.
Following the group of you with interest.
Luv Anne
You are perilously close to some hotspots aren’t you?
Thanks for that feedback Annie.
The SimpleViewer photo gallery looks good but it is slow in loading. I think it is slowing down the whole opening of the blog as well. I’ll probably revert to using Picasa even though it doesn’t look as slick.
Hotspots? Well, today we had lunch outside Gori about 20 kms from South Ossetia where the Russians came over in the 5-day 2008 war. There’s a new movie starring Andy Garcia just released on that event.