On Sunday work’s employees from both Adana and Mersin convoyed (no hitchhiking) to Findikpinari northwest of Mersin for a picnic.

The barbecued marinated chicken, sucuk (Turkish sausage), onion and green peppers were delicious.

We ate under the shade of a carob tree with spring daisy and poppy flowers, orange orchards, tomato houses, beehives and the odd tortoise providing company.

The ladies posing: (from the left) Ummuhan, Buket, Sebiha and Hatice.

Chef Serkan. Note the three barbecues used.

A lone poppy surrounded by daisies. Under the vegetation in the top right of the photo was a small tortoise.