Can Blue Get Bluer in Chefchaouen, Morocco - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

After 10 days or so of drab scenery in Morocco, I couldn’t quite hold my excitement when colors finally entered my vision in north part of the country. I was happy to not just finally see green…

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… but also the lively colors in life:

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Further, I was delighted to meet someone whose brain may be on the same wavelength with me. The proof? As if the ubiquitous blue in this town is not enough, she wanted to make her house MORE blue. You may have known this about me, there can never be too much color in life. ;-)

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P.S., I just learned that the blue city just suffered forest fire due to extreme heat at the end of last month, which was the third major wildfire in August for Morocco. Whatever the reason may be for the city to be blue, we now know it’s not to keep it cool.

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Back to Nature in Morocco - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

Tell me, what do you feel about the scene below:

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Now, hold the thought.

If I tell you that we started our Morocco trip in Marrakesh and what we saw in the next 10 days or so was either dirt or rock until we hit further north, would you have changed your thought? My heart let out a song of joy when my eyes met the scenery at the beginning of this post. I knew then how much green life and clear sky my heart was yearning for.

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I recently watched a 2012 documentary on “Regreening the Desert”. The desperate seek for shade from the inescapable sun and its heat in Morocco came to mind.

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It was forecasted to reach 91 degrees Fahrenheit (roughly 32.7 degrees Celsius) where I live yesterday, a temperature that’s known to be “normal” as far back as I know. And yet, California Independent System Operator (California ISO) has issued a Flex Alert urging Californians to reduce energy use to relieve grid stress, which was extended into today.

I don’t suppose I know the answer to our quest back in Morocco. Nor do I know whether the Sahara desert has always been there or that expansive. But I know we are dealing more and more on an intimate level with issues of power shortage, excessive heat and extensive drought. I know that City of Los Angeles is providing free trees to its residents. I also know that my parents have taken it upon themselves to be surrounded by trees.

If you haven’t, please take less than 50 minutes of your life and watch the documentary. If some of the concepts/ideas presented in it (back in 2012) is “revolutionary”, maybe more people ought to learn about them. And I’d love an opportunity to discuss what do you think we can start incorporating into our own property/lives.

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Women in Shadow - Los Angeles Travel Photographer

I knew Morocco would be a country of many unexpected. I did not expect to feel uncomfortable walking down the streets in my short sleeves, the plain ones that women wear in the “Western” cultures.

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I consider myself a pretty fearless woman. But when there’s cafes occupied by solely male gender who do nothing but sitting there and looking out the street, every inch of bare skin that’s being seen by those peering eyes makes me uncomfortable. At those time, for some odd reason, I envied Moroccan women. Covered up and not showing skin or shapes, they may be free from the eyes of the opposite gender. They seem to stay in the shadow, or sometimes are like a shadow, dark and muted.

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