Each month Paula from Lost in Translation gives us five words to demonstrate visually. You can pick five pictures or one word or show all five in one image. The choice is yours. This month the words are: resplendent, alluring, plagued, copycat, timeworn.
© irene waters 2019
The whirling dervish was resplendent in his attire but when he added the effect of lights to the skirt he satisfied even the original meaning of resplendent “shining out.”
© irene waters 2019
The spices markets were alluring – enticing us to enter inside even though we knew it would be hard to escape without making a purchase one we were in. I came home with some incredible saffron.
© irene waters 2019
The number of tourists we encountered made us think of a plague of locusts. Everywhere you went you were plagued by vast numbers. I could only wonder at how I would have found the numbers of people had tourism not dropped in 2010 from 14.7 million tourists to 5.4 million in 2016 and we were there in the low season. A plague indeed.
© irene waters 2019
I don’t know that this is a genuine copycat but it does look as though the first four imagaes are copies of each other.
© irene waters 2019
When you consider that these monuments date back to as many years before Christ as we have had after Christ then it is only to be expected that they would be a little time worn.
Reflections and Nightmares- Irene A Waters (writer and memoirist) 
Wonderful photos expressing the five prompts. The spice mounds are so interesting in that the vendor not only created such intriguing piles, but also textured them. Saffron was a great purchase. Do you know what the blue one ? The last image of the extending pillars is a fabulous view that takes what is already a rare sight and makes it extraordinary.
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Thanks Sharon. No I don’t know what the blue one is and when I’ve tried to find out it seems no-one else knows what it is either. Apparently the Bedouin dye themselves blue to prevent sunburn so perhaps rather than a spice it is a dye but that is just a guess. It is in every spice market we saw. Thank you re your comment about the last photograph. The whole thing was just extraordinary and I’m glad that, for you at least, I managed to capture it on film (so to speak.)
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Great expressions of each word from your Egyptian trip. What was the blue spice?
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Thanks Charli. I have no idea what the blue spice is – possibly a dye but I have been unable to find out.
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https://www.kdexplorer.com/2019/03/travel-to-egypt.html my adventure from Egypt !!!
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Your posts always take me to the most amazing places, and this one is among the best so far. Beautifully captured, Irene. Amazing!
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Thanks Paula. Hope you are doing well in these strange times. If you are still doing your words I hope to rejoin you soon. Cheers Irene
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