Thinking of Isak Dinesen

A Hiking Trail in Zurich last Saturday

Karen von Blixen, aka Isak Dinesen, wrote

Out of Africa after returning to her native Denmark.

There, far to the north of Africa, she fondly recalled

sun-filled days and the play of light on the savanna

landscape. Recently, Dinesen has been in my thoughts,

not because I am writing a grand memoir,

but because I am recalling sunlight in southern places....

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In a spice market in Agadir, Morocco

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At a botanical garden in the Canary Islands

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In the Alhambra in southern Spain

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And, again, back to this week in Zurich...