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Path of Totality290 viewsThis large map shows the path of totality of the 2006 eclipse across Turkey. Istanbul was not in the path, so the observatory saw only a partial eclipse.Sep 20, 2019
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Sigara Böreği216 viewsEgg rolls, or their Turkish equivalent, stuffed with potato, feta or meat, next to cabbage flowers.Sep 04, 2019
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More Cabbage Flowers215 viewsThere was a great variety of cabbage flowers. These used carved radishes, zucchini squash carved to look like lilies, etc. Incredible food artistry!Sep 04, 2019
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Cabbage Flowers249 viewsFlowers, apparently made of carrot slices with scallions serving as the stems, "growing" out of a cabbage.Sep 04, 2019
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Cabbage Rolls and Stuffed Peppers240 viewsIn Turkish the cabbage rolls are called Lahana Sarmasi; in Romanian they are Sarmasi, in Greek they are Lahanodolmades, in Polish Golabki, in Russian Golubtsy. Regardless of what you call them, they are delicious.Sep 04, 2019
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Mezze259 viewsTurkish hors-d'oeuvres.Sep 04, 2019
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Curtain Call212 viewsJerry & Sandie take a break for a celebratory snapshot after third contact.Sep 04, 2019
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The Beach at Totality237 viewsLooking out over the Mediterranean. Again, without a tripod Sandie's camera was subject to shaking, hence the blurred picture.Sep 04, 2019
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Kaya Side Hotel near totality227 viewsThis is a slightly blurry view of the Kaya Side Hotel, as seen from the beachfront where we watched the eclipse, taken close to totality, when the light was getting low, the camera lens was wide open and the shutter speed too slow to deal with camera shake.Sep 04, 2019
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Rube Goldberg Improvisation257 viewsChuck and Elouise concocted some cockamamie scheme to try to capture the onset of totality, while I looked on with bemused scepticism. Don't remember how well their crazy apparatus worked.Sep 04, 2019
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You, Andrew Marvell225 viewsAnd strange at Ecbatan the trees
Take leaf by leaf the evening strange...
Sep 04, 2019
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Halfway There205 viewsRick Gering and Jim Windlinger keep tabs on the progress of the eclipse by monitoring their equipment, while Mike Treder and Pat Bush check out the projections on the sheet.Sep 04, 2019
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