Dear Reader (2025-11-04 – posted simultaneously to FB)
In today’s post you and I visit Timimoun. The town is located in south-central Algeria, and is known for its red ochre buildings. It is also a gateway to the part of the Sahara called the Grand Erg Occidental. I found it interesting for its signs of an Algeria that no longer exists (photos 01,10). I also found it a town of contrasts.
~ The hotel we stayed in had a pleasantly refreshing pool.
~ In the corner of an empty market stall standing vertically were 4 camel legs with skin and hooves intact (yes I have a photo but I’m not sure you want to see it).
~ Just off the main street there is wealth of textures (09 to 11).
Notes on Photos
~ 01, 10 – Signs of a past.
~ 03 – Hotel pool – looking out towards desert
~ 04 – Hotel pool – looking back towards hotel
~ 05 – Outdoor carpet seller
~ 06 to 08 – Indoor market
~ 07 – The communal water “fountain” – I watched a man rinse the metal mug in the bucket, partially fill the mug, down the water and put the metal cup back on top of the cooler.
~ 12 – On the main street.
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1-I have often found that some red shades are hard for digital sensors. The peony in our front yard is a good example. Some of the rock in PEI is as well. I had some photos of interesting rock patterns come out purple rather than the red of everything else. I look at the texture of the building, and it’s like someone made a bunch of oval rocks in a mould, and stacked them up in a formwork, with more mud to hold it together. I wonder if this is the actual red, or it’s faded in the sun, or the digital sensor has betrayed you.
2- I always wonder what is behind closed doors. Especially locked doors.
3-You might not get me out of that pool.
4-I love the composition, foreground, midground, background, leading lines, different textures, balanced with with just enough irregularity to not be a created mirror image. Lovely! I think this is one of the best from the trip.
5-I’ve never asked, did you actually go through the experience of haggling for a rug?
6-I’m reminded of a New Brunswick image of a pergola, with the light and shadow patterns.
7-Needs must and all, but that’s how disease spreads.
9-A study of textures. I suspect old and new, but can’t tell which is which.
2) I too have a fascination with doors. They are both an opening and a mystery. My interest in doors touches a similar place as last year’s show “Shadows Passing”.
3) It was very a nice pool.
5) I did not haggle for a rug. But once upon a time April and I haggled for a rug in Morocco.