I know it's Tuesday, but after hearing more heartbreaking news from Istanbul today, I turned to my pictures for comfort and memories. I don't have a lot of them scanned, but here's one of my favorites. It was from my first year there, 1998. I lived in an apartment on the top floor of the primary school building of the lycee I taught at (the high school was across the courtyard - I taught grades 6-11). This was taken on the balcony, years before the word 'selfie' even existed, with my K1000, the Bosphorus bridge in the background.