Dear Reader (2025-11-01 – posted simultaneously to FB)
You and I are on the road today, as this series transitions from the north side of the Atlas to the south side of those mountains.
Note on Photos
~ 01 – “Now Boarding”
~ 02, 03 – At a gas station
~ 04 to 06 – Out the window
~ 07 – Our guide bought tasty grapefruit size apples from a man and his son. They placed their scales in the bus shelter.
~ 08 – Crossing the Atlas range
~ 09 – We are not the first ones on this road. The Latin inscription marks the construction of a road by a detachment of the VI Ferrata legion in 145 AD.
~ 10 – 100 meters or so from the previous photo is a monument to the start of the Algerian revolution of independence. The first bullets in that 8 year war were fired near here on November 1, 1954.
~ 11 – Outside a hotel where we had a lunch stop.
~ 12 – I do give a fig.
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1-This series is a bit of a departure from the previous work. I hope you see what I did there.
2-This is sort of what I thought Algeria would look like. I can’t tell, did someone build a wall along the side of the hills off to the left? Or is that just weathered rocks?
4-I totally understand why you took this photo. I wouldn’t be surprised if the people with you were looking at you with a puzzled expression.
6-Totally wondering what forces are lurking behind the hill ready to pounce on anyone trying to assault that fort.
8-A road going into a hard place. Interesting rock textures.
11-Oddly enough, this is a soothing image. I like the varying colours and textures of the wall in the regularity of the cut blocks. I actually think that the blocks are pressed from a mould, since I see several identical blocks. I might have cropped a hair off the right side just to balance the sconces and lose the splotch of white.
12- Camera phone detail.
Keith, thank you kindly for the wealth of comments (posts 11,12,13). 2 I think that is a wall in the hills on the left. But I don’t remember and the phone’s lens is at times optically challenged.