In March of 1991 I took a business trip to the KEK High Energy Research Laboratory in Tsukuba, Japan, close to Tokyo. We, the participants, were taken on an excursion to the Asakusa district in Tokyo to enjoy the temples there, which is where these photos were taken. Click on any photo for a larger view.

Time out from Ukraine for some photos taken in Boston in July 2013. We were in Massachusetts and Maine to visit family and took a quick trip into Boston. Some of these were taken from a car – e.g., the bridge photos and skylines. The rest were in the Haymarket area (between the North End and Government Center).

In this post I want to show some of the photos I took in Santa Fe in 2009 and 2014. It is a beautiful and historic city to visit, with a downtown small enough to be very walkable. My photographs of three Santa Fe churches are in three other posts: Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, Loretto Chapel, and San Miguel Chapel. As always, click on a photo for a larger view.

The Topkapi Palace is now a museum but in the 15th and 16th centuries it served as the main residence and administrative headquarters of the Ottoman sultans. I must say our visit was not as pleasant as it could have been. First it was raining, and second it was so crowded there were very long lines to get into any of the buildings. So we mostly wandered the grounds, which were beautiful. It is also huge and we did not have a guidebook.