Nzala, Morocco

These storks had a busy time yesterday. They delivered a little boy to the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, far to the north of their home in the foothills of the Atlas Mountains. You see where storks like to build their nests. In this case it's a minaret, but in Europe it's often the tops of chimneys. How convenient for baby delivery!  [2017]

Tbilisi, Georgia

Bring forth the royal diadem and crown Tbilisi the lord of Georgian Christianity, the country's nation-building religion. That's the message conveyed by the Georgian Orthodox Cathedral on the hill. [2018]

Punda, Willemstad, Curaçao

Here's a market vendor posing with low-hanging fruit. Yes, to the photographer, this is low-hanging fruit: Fresh markets and their vendors are among the easiest landscapes to photograph because they always promise good pictures! No photographic skills required; no challenges posed. [2017]

Siem Reap, Cambodia

His species invaded the forest and built a temple. Later, the forest invaded the temple. Now, as a World Heritage Site, the Ta Prohm Temple and the forest co-exist in a natural embrace. You can find ruins under every tree root and a waif in every crevice. [2016]

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Artists at work qualify as performance artists. It is usually true that watching a muralist make the mural is much more mesmerizing than the final masterpiece. [2011]

London, England, UK

So much visual art draws its inspiration from literature. Here's Shakespeare's "seven ages of man" in a courtyard not far from The Globe:
   And one man in his time plays many parts,
   His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
   Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms;
   And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
   And shining morning face, creeping like snail
   Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
   Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
   Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier,
   Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
   Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,
   Seeking the bubble reputation
   Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice,
   In fair round belly with good capon lined,
   With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
   Full of wise saws and modern instances;
   And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
   Into the lean and slippered pantaloon,
   With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
   His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
   For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
   Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
   And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
   That ends this strange eventful history,
   Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
   Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
[1988]

Bucharest, Romania

What is May 1? (a) May Day, (b) National Chocolate Parfait Day, (c) International Workers's Day, (d) Save the Rhino Day, (e) all of the above. The answer from most Americans would be a; the answer from the bus driver here would be c, but the answer from Geographically Yours would be e. [2014]