An Egret in the Garden and in the Movies

I finally got a couple of the videos I took of the egret who visited us this week edited. It's wonderful how nonchalant the bird is! I apologize for shaky camera work as my arms had started to tire by this point. Enjoy!

An Egret in the Garden

Just after lunch today, as I was returning to the library from my room, I was privileged to be able to watch an egret in our garden. He stayed for quite some time and I was able to capture some still photos as well as videos. I'm still editing the videos, but here are a couple of of the stills:

Out and About in Luxor

Finally! Anait and did a shopping walkabout last Sunday, with a well-deserved stop at The Roof for lemon juice (theirs is the best!), wonderful coffee (the real thing with cardamom) for Anait, and my first shisha of the season (plum). The light everywhere was wonderful, as it tends to be in the mid-to-late afternoon. And of course the views from The Roof are magnificent!

Our resident egret who always seems to hang around near CH:

 On our brief walk through the tourist souk:

Bougainvillea is very opportunistic. Here it's used the trunk of the palm tree to establish itself:

One of the ubiquitous homages to ancient Egyptian influence: