Category — Observed

Caroline joins Isabel and Lisa Callahan in getting the henna tattoo treatment in a Delhi neighborhood.

A Shibuya street band, playing an energizing mash-up of 1970’s funk and old-school big band. Sounds crazy, but it worked!

The Church of the Good Shepard was built on the southern shore of picturesque Lake Tekapo in 1935, and has since become a favorite spot for tourists and weddings.

The lake gets its blazing turquoise color from “rock flour” (sediment) in the water.

Friends know my humor runs to the scatological. As you can imagine, I fell off my chair laughing at this sign on the Buenos Aires subway.

Roughly translated: Keep the window open to avoid bad odors.

And notice the international symbol for “no flatulence” on the left hand side of the sign.

A peacock struts his stuff at the Buenos Aires Zoo.  More pictures from this amazing city are posted here.

In a remote town high in the Ecuadorean Andes, a small group of indigenas men gathered around a 19-inch color TV watching a crystal clear DVD copy of the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight, less than two weeks after it was released in the United States.

A gathering of ocean currents just offshore makes Ka Lae (South Point) one of the most popular fishing spots on Hawaii’s Big Island.

Here, at the southernmost point in the United States, more than one fisherman has fallen from the cliffs and been swept away by the powerful Halaea Current.

New York’s Finest stands watch over Times Square.