marrakech

a stork flying by the badia palace. many of them nested on top of the old walls. they clapped their beaks open and shut, making loud, echoing knocking noises.

many photos from fez and casablanca

Majorelle Gardens, Marrakech

casablanca, 2013

Marrakech Rouge, 9 months later

The trick of the long-term traveler: when the lights go out, make a lantern by putting a water-filled water bottle on top of a flashlight.

Marrakech, 2013

Train ride, Marrakech to Fez

On the train ride from Marrakech to Fez you can still see farmers and their families gathering hay by hand and loading it onto donkeys. After a year of farming, I was very moved by the sight. It reminded me of something Claudio of Podere Campriano told me. I asked: "But in the olden days, before machines, how did they even have time to do all this?" He said: "In the olden days, the only thing they had was time."

Chicken souk, Marrakech

Janus plastic mannequins, Fez, 2013

Handpainted Signs of Morocco

 

Jewish cemetary, Fez, 2013

The pale yellow yahrzeit candles, which the hot sun had melted down, looked eerily like body fluids leaking out from the centuries-old graves.