Rosie Reflecting

    Are you?    Does everyone else seem to be? Are you waiting for the best option to come along? Or waiting for a better option?   Every day we are bombarded with the ‘must haves’, the ‘buy now’ (as well as the ‘unique’, the ‘new’, the ‘different’ – that’s another story).   And in these current times when a lot of what the media gives us is about doom and gloom, what do we focus on?     Some people become very inward looking and only use their own judgment, or they base this judgment on information they have gleaned from different sources when faced with uncertainty and then they start to decide for themselves.   They may take on outside information and process that information and then store it somewhere in their memory banks.   Ultimately they make their own decision and sometimes they make that decision only based on noticing what is wrong or can’t be done in respect of whatever it is you would like them to do.   Now...

Whatever you call them they are fascinating large birds to those of us who don't normally see them. Storks are a common sight across Turkey between April and September. turkey is a stopover point between the birds’ winter quarters in Africa (we have seen them in December on the city walls of Morocco where they return from the Atlas Mountains to their nests around 6 pm local time each night. Curiously some information sites say that storks mate of life others say this is not so, but they are monogamous. Around thirty thousand breeding pairs are believed to visit Turkey, often returning to the same nest year after year to raise new chicks. Both Christian and Islamic beliefs consider storks lucky, in Turkish they are known as “pilgrim birds” in Turkish, they are rarely harmed. In some areas of Turkey special platforms are built I additions to the storks’ favorite nesting perches, which range from chimneys and minarets to utility poles. Locally we have storks not too far away an...