You’re right. I should put together a primer.

As entries in the "Where's Rachael?" game go, this one's easy enough to use in the Beginner level.

Quite a handsome animal.

That scarcity also contributes to the impression.

Ah, the old "Build your house on sand..." problem. When all the easy and obvious space is taken and you're forced to take what's left, ungood things can happen.

Good observation. It’s odd too that there are so few windows and small ones. I wonder what the history of this building is.

I’m glad you asked, because it forced me to look it up. It’s becUse the city is built n alluvial deposits of gypsum and other soluble rocks, and subsistence causing building collapse is a major problem.

Maybe, but I think it’s more likely terracing for agriculture. Not that it looks particularly fertile here, but there’s a lot of terracing in the region. We’ll see other examples tomorrow.

Neither one of us is scared though. It helps being forty feet apart.

Oh, you’re right - there’s the dog and the leg! I noted that exchange with Steve it’s interest. It actually never occurred to me to try to recognize who those folks are up there. I’m better with the Greek and Roman gods.

There she is. What a great shot of her.

There's that striking mural again.

The bars on those windows impart a sense of a prison, presumably unintended.

Unrepaired damage from the civil war of the 1930s, perhaps?

I assume the terracing is from centuries (millennia?) of human excavation for building materials? In other words, you're inside what's effectively an immense open pit quarry or mine?