The Nature of My Memories

When I took this picture, the sun was shining over the fields and the wild oats appeared to be golden just like in the Grimm brothers’ fairy...

Common names for this flower are daffodil or narcissus. I enjoy the double-flowered narcissi, the varieties that have extra petals. N...

                                                          Kestaneci-a chestnut vendor in Istanbul with his brazier. Roasting chestnuts ...

Even if they didn’t amaze me like many other plants, I was nonetheless lovingly aware of zinnias as a child. Mostly, I noticed their variety...

Ayvayı yedim! ‘Ayvayı yemek’, literally ‘to eat the quince-ayva’ in Turkish, is a sarcastic slang term used to indicate any troublesome si...

I remember getting fresh hazelnuts in the summer months and eating them right out of the paper bag the street vendor or the green grocer pro...