this weekend on Saturday. Usually my visiting time is Sundays, but since friends had been in town I spend two weekends in Beirut. What a difference a day makes, Sundays are so much more sutler than Saturdays. Also  nice for most to the times, on roads in cars the inhabitants or most of them become maniacs, out to maim and kill anything in their way. Traffic is horrendous on Saturday morning, let alone any other weekday except Sunday.

As such I had my finger pointing and fist-shaking just by trying to remain calm and drive defensive, let alone the thunderous honking if, for a second only, one reacts to late at a traffic light. To all of you Lebanese drivers, relax and cool down, you ain't getting anywhere faster anyway. It all seems to be something like “being in a hurry to go nowhere to do nothing” and taking huge risks to do so, not only to themselves but to everyone else as well.

"The Bear, a man's shadow?"

It is now two weeks since I returned from Germany to Lebanon, the weather was all-right, not to hot and humid yet. It was a busy two weeks, time fly’s, wishing the next four years til retirement are going to be as fast as possible and as quite as possible. The whole time was dominated by the situation in Syria and our contribution to be given in the form of assets and manpower. Will it succeed? We'll see, I think it depends a lot on the powers that are, if it will be allowed to succeed or not. I do have my doubts that a fair chance will be given to the men a women involved in the endeavor to achieve and observe a truth in Syria. If one is really interested in the situation, turn a way from the MSM, only some alternative websites and blogs seem to describing whats really happening in the country. What a shame that change shall destroy and kill so many people, especially if the outcome is not what most people really want.

'Old Building in Ashrafieh in East Beirut'

Photography has been slow, nothing during the weeks, to tired only a few images here and there on the weekends. Today the weather has turned cloudy with slight rain possible. I have to start thinking (actually I have started thinking) on what major project regarding photography and travel I will do this year. Slowly a plan is coming together, thorn between somewhere in Asia or North-America. Actually I need to travel to South-America, a place I have never been. Montevideo sounds great, this name has a ringing in my ears since many years (“Montevideo Rain”), I can dream about it without having been there.

"Still rebuilding the Beirut that the war destroyed, constructions sites everywhere"