moment photography 11

Posted: 5 September 2011 | Author: bootehBeeta | Filed under: COZY CORNER, Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: moment_photography | Leave a comment

“Beach closed. Swimming prohibited”

Sway makes me happy

Posted: 1 September 2011 | Author: bootehBeeta | Filed under: COZY CORNER, Poetry & Music, Uncategorized | Tags: music, poetry, translation | 1 Comment

This is the sexiest version of “sway” – by pussycat doll

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QVzwq1m2BY

Translation into Persian

moment photography10

Posted: 20 August 2011 | Author: bootehBeeta | Filed under: COZY CORNER, Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: moment_photography | 4 Comments

Rainbow in my office

World Humanitarian Day

Posted: 19 August 2011 | Author: bootehBeeta | Filed under: COZY CORNER, Memories & Events, Poetry & Music, Uncategorized | Tags: human_rights, poetry | Leave a comment

World Humanitarian Day is a celebration of “people helping people” ‘If I Could Change’ ft. Ziggy Marley (Official): An inspiring and powerful music and video, With Salman Ahmed (Junoon guitarist from Pakistan), The duo, Sweet Rush, are sisters from Somalia.

moment photography x2! (9)

Posted: 8 August 2011 | Author: bootehBeeta | Filed under: COZY CORNER, Photography, Uncategorized | Tags: moment_photography, Montreal_summer, tam tam_festival, tamtams | Leave a comment

Hunting a moment

Shiraz “bagh-e safa”

Posted: 1 August 2011 | Author: bootehBeeta | Filed under: COZY CORNER, Memories & Events, Uncategorized | Tags: Memories & Events, shiraz | Leave a comment

Shiraz, the city of gardens–excerpts from my book

A wide range of flowers and herbs are distilled in Iran, mainly but not solely in the province of Fars, to produce an aromatic soft-drink commonly referred to in the plural, as “araghi-yaat.”

It was during the months of April and May that I often walked past baagh-e safa (the “pure heart” garden that housed the old distillery workshops) as it provided the city with its araghi-yaat consumption needs. Baagh-e safa remains, to date, the main supplier of floral and herbal extracts for retailers and individual customers alike and one of the main sources of printed knowledge about the process. Read the rest of this entry »