I took this post’s photo at 3.16 pm on 14 October 2025.
My vantage point was a ridge-top in Morocco’s Anti-Atlas – the southwestern part of the Atlas Mountains.
This region’s climate is very harsh, but the pictured valley has “traditionally” received enough water to support agriculture, which is why there is so much terracing.
Over the last several years, however, drought has rendered the terraces (temporarily?) useless.
Immediately behind me was a strategically-located, solid and venerable structure.
Effectively, it used to be a bank – a bank which was fully operational several centuries before the establishment of certain Italian and German financial institutions which are routinely described as “the world’s oldest banks”.
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