Images of... New Hamamist Photos and Our Village Visit

These are some photos I took a couple of weeks ago (time flies!) for Hamamist.  I took them at my lovely friend Alara's apartment  -who, by the way, is ridiculously stylish in a totally natural way - I basically just want to move right in to her apartment  ;)   I was totally overwhelmed with all the beautiful things that I might put in the photos - check out the beautiful glass bottles below with shell tops - she made them!  I will definitely have to have another photos session there!

And these are some more photos of from the trip to my husband, Shenol's, family village near the black sea coast.  I wasn't at all restrained with these - so quite a lot of photos coming up  :)

The house we stayed at was where Shenol's grandmother lived - it was the one next to this and looks pretty similar (somehow I missed taking a photo of it!)  The two houses are surrounded by forest.  Below is the swing by the front door of the house - Yashar loved it!!  It was so green, cool and lush there.

This is the lovely cool stream that you need to cross to get to the houses

Cherry picking!

We went to a neighbouring farm for some cherry picking - this tough and independent woman was working the farm as we arrived.  She told us about the loaded gun she carries and how she takes it to wedding to shoot into the air in celebration - yikes!

Below is the yard at the house where Shenol's farther grew up, and below that is the forest next to the house.


Thanks for joining me on this little 'slideshow'!