Perihelion

the window

2007-07-24T12:13:00.000Z

the sparrow

2007-07-24T12:07:00.000Z

in color

2007-06-20T09:59:00.000Z

dina, cima, and me

elvira and me

elvira and đenan

elvira, mother cima, dina, cima, đenita, and đenan

in black and white

2007-06-20T08:38:00.000Z

a composition by cima

a composition by cima

mother cima and me (it was her turn to see indira yesterday)

dina and indira- now quite familiar

girls on steps

cima, dina, and cima

skipping home

wednesday morning with the dentist

2007-06-13T13:03:00.001Z

indira with the girls

a lesson for Cima

đenita brushing at the sink

us-- and đenita's prize

cima and đenita behind the polka-dot lid of the prize box

brave dina

more prizes

more smiles

tuesday morning with the dentist

2007-06-12T12:01:00.001Z

Suzy with Dina and Dženita

Cima

Dženita back at the Čećić house

Dženita, Dina, and me (Dina had her first tooth pulled today- she was very brave! we will visit Indira again tomorrow for a follow-up and possibly some more work.)

klub

2007-06-11T20:02:00.000Z

luke and us

2007-06-11T19:44:00.000Z

Elena's first pita (with Amra's recipe)

2007-05-28T20:44:00.000Z

A hike in Visočica (at the border of Bosna i Hercegovina) with friends

2007-05-28T20:15:00.000Z

our lunch spot

Rusmira

Elena, Arnela and Rusmira

at the studio

2007-04-26T07:00:00.000Z

a summary of this week

2007-04-22T11:20:00.000Z

my friend elvira (dina and cima's older sister)

ardian (one of the girls' cousins), cima, and elvira

elvira and đenan (the smallest of their brothers)

sweet, sleepy đenan

the tram

the pigeons

a birthday

elvira and me

cima and mark

dina and mark

kamila, cima, and me dancing outside the church

kamila and suzy

kamila

cima and me

cima in the sun

dina in the sun

the girls with the boys

mark and aldin

Grecian Spring with Mom, Dad, Luke and Ashley

2007-04-15T08:09:00.000Z

schinia bay, greece

schinia bay, greece

schinia bay, greece

schinia bay, greece

mars hill, athens

parthenon, athens

Corinth Canal

ancient corinth

acropolis of corinth

pines of greece

Epidavros theatre

Eurosuperstar hair

thermopylae monument

thermopylae battlefield (AKA 300 Spartans)

nafplion

Villa in an olive grove

Nafplion

Nafplion

Delfoi, Greece

Delfoi, Greece

meteora, greece

meteora, greece

The Bridge over the river Drina, Eastern Bosnia

Flowers under pines, Western Serbia

Grecian Windflowers, Kalambaka

A Meteora monastary atop a high rock outcropping

handprint

Our sister Laura (and her visit)

2007-04-11T19:31:00.000Z

beautiful laura

a football field in Dubrovnik

mountains still-snowcapped in Hercegovina

Trebinje- a city in southern Hercegovina

laura- and the highways that lead to Sarajevo

turkish coffee

ahmed's metal shop

eminna and me after a dinner all of us shared

nijaz and mark

pita

baščaršija

halva

cheers- for sour jogurt drinks!

a visit with Chris in Osijek, Croatia

2007-02-02T15:48:00.001Z

Chris (a dear friend from home who arrived two weeks ago to begin a six month stay in croatia. during this time he will work as an english teacher at the evangelical seminary.)

Chris, Mark, and Alden

Bekah

papa štrumpf ice cream

Felip, Suzanna, and their parents (friends of Bekah's-- a beautiful family!)

Suzanna and me

climbing trebević with saša and bronko

2007-02-02T14:37:00.000Z

Mostar-- and a youth conference

2007-01-15T16:05:00.000Z

the place--

the people--

Mark and Beki (pastor in Sanski Most)

Mark and Mladen (pastor in Breza)

brothers

Mufid, Miki, Bobo (and sweet-looking euro-hair)

us

Amra (from Mostar) and me

Karin (a German missionary in whose home we stayed while in Mostar) and me

Mark and Saša

Hanna and me

Jenna and me (jenna lives in Mostar-- we met last year at camp and this recent reunion was sweet)

Bobo (from Breza)

Mufid (from Breza)

brothers Miki, Mufid, and Bobo

Mufid with his sister, his cousin, and a friend

Mark

Saša (from Sarajevo)

Saša (from Sarajevo)

Valimir (from Sarajevo)

Branko (from Sarajevo)

Miki (from Sarajevo)

Elvis (from Sarajevo)

underfoot in the church's courtyard

a sign

Valimir, Branko, and Saša

the Sarajevo boys again

again

again

again

and again

Sabina (and the best kiflice ever)

2007-01-10T21:20:00.000Z

the dough

us-- with the dough

the dough passes to me

i do what i can

sabina does what i cannot

promising i will learn

because

once baked

these kiflice are SO good-- and SO easy to eat

again

and again

and again

and (almost) again.

hence: the well-pleased bakers

but more than that: friends--

Dobrodošli 2007! that is to say-- welcome!

2007-01-02T14:14:00.000Z

Boro, Miki, Srđan, and Alden getting ready to sing sevdalinke

Hanna, Tess, Eilen, and Maria (from Sweden) in the midst of an impeccable harmony

all together

a package of deafening bomb-like firecrackers

Boro-- and a package of deafening bomb-like firecrackers

the flame passes to Elizabeth (Kathryn's sister)

then back to Srđan and Miki

and finally is flung to the sky, exploding just beyond the balcony (and just above the pedestrians)

Miki (and his rocket)

Alden and Mark

Srđan

Cory

Devin and Mark

Tess

Alden

Hanna

a candle

and me (wearing my new Bik Bok sweatshirt brought to me by Tess from Sweden and my dreamy, new leather bag sent by mama and Papa via Kathryn and Elizabeth)

christmastime

2006-12-27T09:26:00.000Z

After dodging exploding fireworks thrown when the clock struck midnight, we were able to squeeze ourselves (like sardines, as Bosnians say) into the famous cathedral.

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zima (winter) begins in Sarajevo

2006-12-23T09:33:00.000Z

dirty water, clean earth

anna's departure/christmas party

brother milan

sister senka

the local boys have taken to calling Elena "Pipi," as in Longstocking. A short-lived gingercookie effigy.

sister Enisa

Sabina

brother boro and sony (yes, named after the cellphone. His previous dog was named Ericsson)

sister Hanna

elena and anna

our sisters Vedrana and Kamila

2006-12-18T12:59:00.000Z

Vedrana

born and raised in Sarajevo, and- by God's grace, brought early into the church! ( i recently spent some time with vedrana and her mother at their home-- i was given cake and clothing, so that neither my belly nor the rest of me can complain of the coming winter!)

Kamila

born and raised in Poland, and- by God's grace, another sister in the kingdom! (kamila moved here to join one of Sarajevo's professional dance companies, and we will have the joy of seeing her in a premier this friday)

the three of us: we spend most saturday afternoons together at Bible study and most saturday evenings at church klub.

in Vijaka

2006-12-09T20:13:00.000Z

Amela

El, Mirel's Mama, and Amela

Mirel

Mirela (Mirel's older sister) and her son, Tin

mozart's requiem at the national theater

2006-12-05T23:03:00.000Z

tito (vraca wwii partisan memorial park)

2006-12-05T21:50:00.000Z

"Tito is often given great credit for having brought internal peace and reconciliation to Yugoslavia after the second world war. It is true that peace came, and that the wounds of the war gradually healed; it is true also that Tito gave some thought to balancing the conflicting claims of Yugoslavia's peoples and regions. But power was more important to Tito than reconciliation, and Communist power was imposed on Yugoslavia at a very heavy price. What has now become the best-known instance of this was the treatment meted out to the remnants of various anti-Partisan forces (and associated civilians) who had taken refuge in Allied-controlled Austria in April and May 1945: Slovene 'home guards', Ustaša soldiers, and Serb and Muslim Četniks. Bosnian Croats, Serbs and Muslims were thus all present in this great mass of defeated soldiers. More than 18,000 were sent back to Yugoslavia by the British at Tito's insistence; most were massacred within hours of their arrival on Yugoslav soil. Altogether it has been estimated that up to 250,000 people were killed by Tito's mass shootings, forced death marches and concentration camps in the period 1945-6" (Malcolm, Noel, Bosnia: A Short History, 193).

"In 1996 the splendid memorial to the Partisan war-dead and victims of fascism at the Vraca Memorial Park in Sarajevo was systematically destroyed by Serbian forces as they withdrew from Vraca under the terms of the Dayton Agreement" (Hoare, Marko Attila, Bosnian Serbs and Anti-Bosnian Serbs, Bosnia Report, Series #8, Jan. to March 1999).

thanksgiving

2006-11-30T16:17:00.000Z

color

2006-11-21T16:52:00.000Z

sweet Dina and Cima--

2006-11-21T16:44:00.000Z

The City of God Looks Upon the City of Man: Mount Trebević (Above Sarajevo)

2006-11-18T07:48:00.000Z

"And after he had dismissed the crowds, he went up on the mountain by himself to pray."

Vrelo Bosne

2006-11-08T19:26:00.000Z

first football match

2006-11-08T19:20:00.000Z

Soon we were all enveloped in the flare smoke

light

2006-11-08T18:55:00.000Z

His banner over me is love--

2006-11-08T18:35:00.000Z

Sarajevo in the fall

2006-10-27T13:52:00.000Z

In Gora, 10 Km from Kakanj

2006-10-24T18:49:00.000Z

Samir- Anes' neighbor and closest friend

Anes, Mark, and Elena before dinner

the bareback canter

A church graveyard on the hills.

Elena getting a few pointers about riding Riđan

Anes and his cousins

Bliss!

The Crimson Thread

2006-10-23T21:25:00.000Z

While climbing the mountain above the old city walls of Dubrovnik, Croatia, Elena and I discovered a trail of crimson thread winding with the path. We also noticed that at various intervals along the path were stationed numbered crosses, the Stations of the Cross. The thread was sometimes woven carefully into the midst of plants and thickets along the periphery of the trail and sometimes anchored beneath rocks before us: a meditation of Christ's suffering no doubt. We hope the pictures mimic what we saw. The last picture was taken at an abandoned building at the precipice.

Pictures from a Serbian Fortress on Trebević, the Mountain Behind our Apartment

2006-10-23T21:17:00.000Z

Portraits of Others

2006-10-23T20:46:00.001Z

Heather from Minnesota

Dzenita from Sarajevo

Dzenita from Sarajevo

Alden from Sarajevo

Ejub from Breza

Devin with Miki from Sarajevo and Beki from Sanski Most

Laris from Breza

Kathryn from Washington

Bekah from Stafford

Željko from Montenegro and now Sarajevo

Anna from Sweden

Anes from Kakanj with Riđan

Jasmin from Breza

Devin from Fredericksburg

Portraits of Us

2006-10-23T20:40:00.000Z

For the Senses

2006-10-23T20:29:00.000Z

cement pattern on a wall

rust fire on a fence

a shard of tile

light dappled through the window's lace onto our wooden floors

vanilice, a traditional Bosnian cookie

stitchwork on a blanket

homegrown and handpicked pomegranates

Coal of Kreševo

Red-edged window

Quartz crystals in rock outcropping above Sarajevo

Persian rug in Stari Grad, Sarajevo

Bosnian bricks