July, 2021 I am looking through my photos with the intent of deleting most of them. Yet, I was blown away by the beauty in the surplus pictures left on the cutting room floor. I want to share these images of various forms of beauty. It does not matter how you define “beauty”: Bali has it all. I am not even including the easy pictures of beauty: beach scenes or sunsets. Those are just “gimmes”. [I will explain that one to the foreign readers who ask]. Nah, no easy or trick photos are in this montage. This travelogue will show you beauty the hard way.
This is a photo-only session. I swear to God I will punish myself severely if any photo has more yak-yak-yak than a one-sentence commentary. I will kiss the third rail as penance. Good luck to all the foreign readers with that one.
IF you don’t have time to scroll through all nine of the main pictures, just look at the one extra bonus photo at the bottom — definitely worth seeing and the only photo not taken by me.
I hope you will find beauty in these pictures. Here goes:
On my First Day in Bali, I Walked by my Neighborhood Temple:
Day 2, I Found Cluttered Beauty Looking Left Across from the Mini-Mart:
And a Many Splendored Thing of Balanced Harmony, to the Right:
OrBeauty Just Plain Interrupted: (In Latin: “Pulchritudo Interruptus”)
Week Two: The Town of Ubud
Where beauty can be dark and Goth:
Or Ubud Also Has a Festive, Urban Street Scene:
In Sum, I Have Learned That Beauty Comes in All Forms — Peaceful:
To hidden urban beauty
Or beauty can be plain scary:
Bonus Beauty:
Balinese Wedding Photos of My New BFF, Edo, and His Wife. Edo is the Manager of a Villa Complex Where I Stayed -[Edo’s Father is My Tour Guide]:
[NOTE: I took all the photos in this montage EXCEPT this wedding picture above]
Dang! That last photo has a two-sentence description. I promised that every photo would only have one sentence. Excuse me, as I now have to go punish myself. I knew this would happen.