Jvari Monastery

view from Mtskheta

view of Mtskheta

these relief panels are quite unusual

confluence of rivers

not quite symmetrical

see the dots on the left? those are people-the scale of this landscape is tremendous

lone tree

Davit Gareja

on the border of Georgia and Azerbaijan-this is a landscape that swallows everything in it up even the rock cut monasteries.

I did not get a handle on the alphabets-this is not modern Georgian

I walked barely 15 minutes to see the monastery swallowed up

Prague-Our Lady of Tyne and the Lareto

these towers are the best

so tall

my camera lens was breaking so I didn't get the photographic licenses to photograph inside these churches but I strongly recommend them! Our Lady is fairly perfect Gothic in many ways and the Lareto is delightfully weird featuring a blood red chapel, black Madonna and several very unusual saints as well as Baroque tomb painting.

Strahov Monastery

cloisters

some creepy feet