Almost my birthday, so I thought I might try and put something beautiful in my little bit of cyberspace. I was at the surgeons' conference in the Al Faw palace last week, and I managed to get some pix.

Here is a pic of the doors inside the palace. The design says Al Faw in Arabic and they are about 10 feet high.
This is the ceiling of the ballroom. It is carved and painted plaster, really gorgeous work.
And the atrium. Kind of fuzzy, but what the heck…
Here are some flowers I found. Most of them came from a parking lot in the IZ where they had thirteen rockets land the day before.

And a lizard from the front door of our HQ. He was really cute!