view out of my kitchen window …

i don’t know if it was just the heat or if there is something like a muslim carpet cleaning holiday, but on monday all the turkish women in our neighborhood brought out their carpets and mops and lye and scrubbed their carpets. the women in our house started early in the afternoon and hung the clean carpets on the backyard wall (and everything else they could find, like garbage cans and ladders) to dry when they were done at dinner time. the next morning, when i looked out of my kitchen window, i found this sight:

sometimes i just love living in little istanbul.

~ by bine on July 20, 2007.