Made a useless trip to Orman Gardens today for a plant show that will show up in a couple of weeks and found myself in Zamalek with a friend. There is a shoe shop at the corner of 26 July ...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2015/04/silly-shoes-in-zamalek.html
While in a nearby village on an errand we parked across the road from this shop. Naturally it was closed in the morning sunshine. I suppose it only opens after dark.
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2015/03/come-back-later.html
Waiting for a train to pass a village level crossing I spotted this man leaning against a bridge over the canal and checking messages or mail. Mobile phones have changed life immeasurably in ...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2015/03/checking-his-mail.html
On a visit to Bab Zuwayla in old Cairo, I walked past this small factory making konefa, which is the base of a sweet made in Egypt. In the first photo you see the rotating drum where the thi...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-thread-of-story.html
Egyptians are serious about their pigeons. They live to eat squab, young pigeon stuffed with cracked wheat, and they like to fly or race them. The elaborate structure on top of the apartment ...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2015/01/pigeon-palace.html
Egypt doesn't have a lot of trees. We have a lot of palms, which are technically a grass, but wood trees are definitely in the minority so when we see someone cutting down the eucalyptus a...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2015/01/third-world-problems.html
A couple of young women are making a video on donkey care so they have been joining the vets of the Rural Wellness Initiative for filming. During a quiet moment the crew share stories
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/12/filming-in-countryside.html
A banana seller has a mobile stand but the seat for the bicycle is long gone.
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/12/but-don-sit-down.html
Cairo traffic is infamous. Crowded, slow, irritable..you name it. Motorcycles and scooters are commonplace as they can slide among the cars in a traffic jam, but his guy was carrying somethin...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/11/prepared.html
It's a problem in the countryside. We live in an area where the most common surface for a road is sand or dirt. People wander in and out of homes all the time and the dust blows in from the ...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/11/sand-sifters-and-floor-coverers.html
It has been ages since I've posted to the blog and truly I feel bad about that. Life has a way of getting complicated and busy, especially here in Egypt where nothing is as easy as it should...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/10/clip-it-and-dont-lose-it.html
The joy of Cairo can be expressed in two words most days. "Cairo traffic" is stickier than duct tape, slower than molasses in January...but at least the guys in the flatbed have a nice breeze...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/09/cairo-traffic.html
On my way to an attorney whose office is in downtown Cairo we found ourselves behind a horse cart on a major street and I had no time to whip out my phone. I had to be dropped at the law offi...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/08/free-parking.html
I had shoulder surgery this summer and only had my left hand to use for a month or so. This is the first week I've had the approval from the doctor to ride out. This is a flowering field ...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/08/open-sesame.html
Just before Ramadan started, about a month ago, I had to have surgery on my right shoulder because encroaching arthritis had produced some sharp bone that had severed a tendon in the shoulder. ...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/07/all-tied-up.html
Each year the Canadian embassy celebrates our national day, which is July 1, with a gathering at the ambassador's residence. This lovely Art Deco apartment overlooks the garden.
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/06/oh-canada.html
I took a rider out a year ago on a trek around the desert. She was on a long trek herself and had been given a small stuffed animal to take pictures of in various places. In honor of her ride, ...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-things-tourists-do.html
If all these photos look a bit random, that's because they are, at least as far as my understanding of them. We were working on one of our vet clinics near a mosque in a village by Abu...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/05/egyptian-jacks.html
The village Bedouin in this area graze their flocks of sheep on the fields after harvest, which adds some organic fertilizer to the soil and reduces the stubble. With perhaps a dozen familie...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/04/sheep-branding.html
The news has stories of thousands of acres being sold to Arabs, but out here near Abu Sir, they are building warehouses by the hundred on good cultivation land. This would look to be a factory...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/04/killing-farm-land.html
Today was Sham el Nessim, one of my favorite holidays because it is utterly unrelated to any religion or military victory. On this day Egyptian families head out to some green spot for a pic...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/04/eating-my-garden.html
In April we are surrounded by red/black and white mulberry trees full of ripe fruit. In the old days, the cities were also filled with mulberry trees along the streets, but as the ripe frui...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/04/bounty-in-trees.html
Wrought iron bars are often placed on the ground floor windows of homes for security. Obviously this young lady felt that they were there for another purpose. It's a great look out for a small ...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/04/study-in-pink.html
This plant (weed actually) is known in Egypt as Khobeyza or in English as Mallow . It's a relation to Molokheya, another mallow plant, and hollyhocks which are yet another one. Egyptians eat ...
http://cairogizadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2014/04/egyptian-superfood-for-free.html