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![ANGKOR WAT—Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia A woman in a long skirt stands in front of and photographs an ornate temple-relic made of stone.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ANGKOR-WAT-with-Phoebe-Cambodia-2016-1024x763.jpg)
Phoebe stops to photograph the relic site while I stop to photograph Phoebe. Looks like a movie set!
![GLITCHY PHOTO—Siem Reap, Cambodia A camera glitch produces a surreal image of a wide intersection in Siem Reap, Cambodia with a headless person riding a bicycle and a whte van without wheels running into a motorscooter.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SIEM-REAP-Cambodia-2016-951x1024.jpg)
Obviously, a glitch occurred when I took this shot. Check out the headless person on the bike and the white van (without wheels) colliding with a phantom motorbike. Creepy cool!
![SUNRISE at ANGKOR WAT—Cambodia A man (pictured right) and a young woman (left in a long skirt) pose in semi-silhouette in front of a pond at sunrise outside Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia with the woman lifting her right arm upward, palm open, as if to be holding up the rising sun.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ANGKOR-WAT-Cambodia-2016-1024x768.jpg)
Phoebe assumes a goddess pose as she holds the morning sun in her hand. Meanwhile, I just stand there. Amazing place, but hotter than Hades in mid-May.
![FACE of STONE—Angkor Wat, Cambodia Close-up view of a large ancient face-sculpture with eyes closed in meditation, carved into golden-brown stone with block-like incisions and barnacle-like blemishes.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ANGKOR-WAT-TEMPLE-Cambodia-2016-759x1024.jpg)
One of many giant heads carved out of stone in the ancient Buddhist-Hindu complex. How on earth did they manage to do this?
![KHAO SOK NATIONAL PARK—Thailand A long row of vacation huts featuring thick grass roofs and wooden front porches sit directly on a body of water with a wood-planked walkway in front and a steep hill of green trees in the background.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GRASS-HUTS-in-Kao-Sok-Thailand-2012-photoo-by-Phoebe-H.-1024x768.jpg)
Phoebe actually spent the night in one of these floating grass huts while off on a 3-day boating excursion. It's Marguaritaville! [P. Henderson photo, 2016]
![YOUNG VENDORS—Kathmandu, Nepal Three smiley-faced Nepali boys stand together, posing for the photo, while holding long wooden sticks with a hot-pink substance (cotton-candy?) at the top, for sale in plastic bags.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/KATHMANDU-KIDS-Nepal-2016-702x1024.jpg)
Friendly young faces. Not sure what they're selling, but it looks like cotton candy on steroids.
![BOTANICAL GARDENS—Kathmandu, Nepal Tiny white flowers and two yellow blossoms float in a gold bowl on a small wooden table with sunlight streaming in through a grid-like wooden window within the "Garden of Dreams" Botanical Park in Kathmandu.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/KATHMANDU-Nepal-Botanical-Gardens-2016-967x1024.jpg)
This lovely bowl of tiny floating flowers was on display at the "Garden of Dreams" Botanical Gardens in central Kathmandu. Nice organic touch!
![PHEWA LAKE—Pokhara, Nepal A fleet of blue canoes with red tips all pointing in the same direction on Phewa Lake in Pokhara, Nepal.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ci-1024x974.jpg)
I spotted this school of red-blue canoes on Phewa Lake―all matching, all pointing in the same direction. Very Zen.
![GOLD COAST—Coolangatta, Australia A couple in silhouette walks barefoot in the wet-packed, reflective sand near the water's edge near-dusk with highrise buildings in the background.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GOLD-COAST-Australia-2016-1024x768.jpg)
An Aussie couple walks barefoot at low tide along the Gold Coast just south of Brisbane. You can almost feel the sand squishing between your toes, eh mate?
![COOL WATERS—N. Island, New Zealand New Zealand, North Island, Wellington, water, river](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/NEW-ZEALAND-N-of-Wellington-2016.jpg)
View of a clear, cool stream in a nature park just north of Wellington. That blue reflection looks iridescent, like liquid silver. Just gorgeous!
![ROOFTOP PHOTO OPP—Santorini, Greece A classic blue dome with a small gold cross at the top accents a beige-concrete roof as a young woman (bent over at the waist) takes a photo through a window on a large gateway partition.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SANTORINI-2019-1024x767.jpg)
That's Phoebe on a concrete roof in Santorini (Pyrgos Kallistis). What do you suppose she's aiming at? Gotta love that turquois dome.
![ROOFTOP ROMANCE—Santorini, Greece Sunset view of a young couple in semi-silhouette sitting cross-legged on the roof of a white stucco church in the town of Oia in Santorini..](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Santorini-Sunset-2-for-web.jpg)
What a sweet, romantic spot for taking in a sunset. Three's a crowd in this situation.
![CABERNET & CALDERA—Santorini, Greece A young woman in a black dress sits on a low stone wall while holding a wine glass and looks upward as her hair blows in the wind.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/PHOEBE-IN-MOTION-Venetsanos-Winery-Santorini-2016-788x1024.jpg)
After a few cabernets, Phoebe goes into an ecstatic rock star trance at the Venetsanos Winery in Santorini. WHAT a VIEW! Watch the wine, honey, and seriously, don't lean back.
![CALDERA CACTUS—Santorini, Greece Sunset view of red flowers with long stems growing out of a bed of cactus with the Aegean caldera in the backround in Santorini, Greece.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/SANTORINI-FLOWERS-2019-1024x768.jpg)
This big flowering cactus above the caldera looks as if it might belong in the Jurassic Era. Wild, freaky, and gorgeous.
![IVY ARCHWAY—Monti District, Rome, Italy A huge wall of ivy covers a stone archway wall as a slender man walks down a long flight of steps and passes underneath.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ROME-Italy-2018-762x1024.jpg)
Now THAT's what I call a wall of ivy! I swear, I didn't ask that man to walk down the steps for me.
![RESTING in RED CHAIRS—Banff, Canada Two visitors to Banff National Park in Canada relax in a twin pair of red Adirondak chairs with a picture-perfect view of the water and mountains.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BANFF-Canada-2017-1024x576.jpg)
Once you've located a pair of red chairs in the Park, it's important to sit down and revel in your success. Phoebe and I are demonstrating how this is done.
![BACKYARD SPA—Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA View of the lower portion of two legs under the surface of a metal pool of clear, still water with yellow-orange flowers and a wooden fence in the distance.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/BACKYARD-SPA-Friends-pool-Bartlesville-OK-1024x768.jpg)
These lovely appendages belong to my good friend, Dana, who turned a feeding trough into an above-ground pool on her back deck. Hell YES!
![COLOR RUN—Oklahoma City, OK, USA Two young women wearing sunglasses are covered in bold colors after completing a "Color Me Rad" 5k run in Oklahoma City (and getting dowsed with colors while en route), with one of them kneeling and giving a "thumbs up" while the other laughs from above.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/PHOEBE-daughter-pictured-left-with-her-friend-COURTNEY-Oklahoma-City-OK-2014-857x1024.jpg)
Phoebe (with friend Courtney) gives a thumbs up after getting dowsed repeatedly with color powder during a 5K "COLOR RUN". So fun, so cute, so totally RAD!
![CHRISTIANSHAVN DISTRICT—Copenhagen](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COPENHAGEN-2019-378x1024.jpg)
Take a look at that sweet brown boathouse with the "watermelon boat" parked out front. That's my dream home right there!
![SIMPLY AUTUMN—Copenhagen, Denmark](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COPENHAGEN-Autumn-2019-768x1024.jpg)
Copenhagen in autumn―it's almost as if the city was built for the season. It's moody and romantic with charm out the wazoo!
![THE ROYAL COPENHAGEN—Copenhagen](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COPENHAGEN-Brick-Bldg-2019.jpg)
Wonderful brickwork on this building, and the downpipe and letters in aged copper add just the right touch of industrial elegance.
![WINDOW IVY—Copenhagen](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COPENHAGEN-window-ivy-2019-944x1024.jpg)
It's late October and the ivy is starting to turn around this sweet little arched window. Classic Copenhagen!
![ØRSTEDS PARK—Copenhagen](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/COPENHAGEN-Park-Pond-2019-1024x768.jpg)
White birds in a willow in a pond in a park in Copenhagen in autumn. Love it!
![STOREFRONT—Bow St., Edinburgh, Scotland](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/EDINBURGH-2018-765x1024.jpg)
Storefront for Victor Scott Kiltmakers on Bow Street in central Edinburgh. That red is bold, classic, sexy, and just plain spectacular!
![SAINT-AUBIN CHURCH—Toulouse, France](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ST-AUBIN-Church-Toulouse-France-2018-763x1024.jpg)
While the grand arched entrance to St-Aubin Church in Toulouse is undeniably stunning, somehow my looming shadow took center stage in this photo. I'm titling it, "Monster at the gate!"
![WINTER WONDERLAND—Limousin, France](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Dechen-Choling-Buddhist-Center-France-2011.jpg)
Is it just me or do these frozen plane trees look like hands reaching up from the earth? [photo by Pahkal]
![AFTERNOON SUNBURST—Limousin, France Sunlight bursts through the late-afternoon clouds over trees lining bright green meadow in Limousin, France.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Dechen-Choling-Buddhist-Center-2019-photo-by-Edith-Bougon-1024x666.jpg)
Spectacular sunburst over an open field at Dechen Chöling, a meditation center in central rural France. [photo by Edith Bougon]
![ÉGLISE SAINT YRIEIX—Limousin, France](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/FRENCH-CHAPEL-Saint-Yrieix-Sous-Aixe-Limousin-Region-France-2018-768x1024.jpg)
Sweet and humble, this chapel is located in the small village of Saint-Yrieix-sous-Aixe in central France.
![LYON CATHEDRAL—Lyon, France](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ST-JEAN-BAPTISTE-CATHEDRAL-Lyon-France-2019-754x1024.jpg)
While this cathedral is massive and formidable, it also has a soft elegance to it. Talk about vaulted ceilings!
![PONDERING PASTRIES—Limoges, France](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/PAULS-BAKERY-Limoges-France-2019-1024x770.jpg)
A middle-aged woman carefully ponders the baguettes and brioche at Paul Patisserie in Limoges, France. So many carbs, so little time.
![BUBBLE MAN—Park Güell, Barcelona, Spain A park entertainer waves his magic wand and releases an aerial stampede of giant bubbles across Park Güell in Barcelona, Spain.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/PARK-GRUELL-Barcelona-2018-1024x770.jpg)
I wonder if this bubble master in Barcelona's Park Güell makes his living this way or if he just does it for the love of bubbles.
![MINI CLOWN MURAL—Zürich, Switzerland Rote Fabrik, mural, Zürich, clown](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ROTE-FABRIK-ART-CENTER-wall-art-Zurich-2019-1024x1024.jpg)
This wonderful graffiti-illustration at the Rote Fabrik Art Center in Zürich is actually quite tiny. Boy, can I relate to that clown's expression!
![LIMMAT CANAL—Zürich, Switzerland Zurich, Switzerland, Limmat, friendship, silhouette](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/ZURICH-Limmat-River-2019-2-1024x768.jpg)
Friends talking in silhouette along the Limmat canal in Zurich in late September. Such an easy-breezy vibe.
![BLAIR BARN—Blair, Oklahoma, USA A dilapidated gray barn sits alone in an open field of soft golden tallgrass in Blair, Oklahoma, USA](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Blair-Barn-for-web-2.jpg)
A dilapidated gray barn stands quietly in a field of soft tallgrass in Blair, OK.
![LILY PADS—Florida Everglades A cluster of green lily pads and red leaves floating on crystal clear water in the Florida Everglades, USA.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Everglades-leaves-for-web.jpg)
A cluster of green lily pads and red leaves floating on crystal clear water in the Florida Everglades.
![GOLD COAST SURFER—Coolangatta, Australia A male Australian surfer in profile and holding a surf board stands on a large jutting rock along the Gold Coast and looks out at the Tasman Sea at dusk in Coolangatta, Australia.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Austrailia-Surfer-for-web-2.jpg)
An Australian surfer on a large jutting rock takes in the view of the Tasman Sea at dusk.
![NORTH RIVER—Marshfield, MA, USA Colorful sunset view of the North River in Marshfield, Massachusetts, USA, with the violet and coral hues in the clouded sky refecting off the water and the green marshy banks on either side.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/NORTH-RIVER-for-web.jpg)
As the sun sets over the North River in Marshfield, Massachusetts, the pastel hues in the sky are mirrored in the water below.
![SUBTERRANEAN CHAMBER—Santorini, Greece Tucked beneath the Church of the Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) in Pyrgos Village on the Isle of Santorini in Greece is a beautiful monastic chamber with whitewashed walls and white stone steps leading upward into blinding white daylight.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Phoebes-White-Steps-for-web-729x1024.jpg)
Tucked beneath the Church of the Agia Triada (Holy Trinity) in Pyrgos Village is a beautiful monastic chamber with whitewashed walls and white stone steps. Looks like the upward journey into heaven, doesn't it?
![CANDLE KEEPER—Kathmandu, Nepal A Nepali woman sits behind a large collection of candles that are burning at night near the Boudhanath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal.](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Nepal-candles-for-web-2.jpg)
A Nepali woman looks after a large metal trough of burning candles near the Boudhanath stupa. Not sure if the display was her livelihood or a personal offering to the stupa―but either way, it was a beautiful.
![PETE in SILHOUETTE—Fort Collins, CO, USA Cat, Colorado, silhouette](https://innerspacewithralph.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Pete-behind-curtain-web-784x1024.jpg)
Pete belong's to my good friend, Kelly (see "Onward" article), and is one of the grooviest cats around. He loves to slip behind that curtain in the guest bedroom and surveil the neighborhood.