Happiness Levels dictate the choices

This is a blog of photos of the places and people on a scale of 9 to 10. All very good.

Let's start with Turkey. This is the courtyard of my wonderful little home. It was taken from the wooden door that opens from the road. On the immediate left is the 4 room house where I live. Adjoining it is a small 'patio' with a barbecue, then stairs going down to the left to the Chess Classroom and an open space (now with a stone floor) that leads on to 3 cave homes. Under the arch on the left is a room for guests.

On the right as you descend is the original bathroom, the open-air dining room, the theater/museum, a doorway into a hall with the weavers room on left.

Through the door at the end of the arch is a great vista: my gardens and then one of the great canyons of Ortahisar, and in the distance, Mount Argeus, always covered with snow, radiant in the sunlight of early morning or late afternoon.