Monday, June 27, 2011

Russian Officers Quarters....Overlooking Kabul

Where the Russians used to drink their vodka...stories of executions in the pool, though I've never cared to figure out if these were true

Sunday, June 26, 2011

A Landcruiser fruit tree....Kabul

The company car in the company driveway with lunch for me

Thursday, June 23, 2011

a Soviet era house in Taimani....Kabul


The lower line is the shadow of the first. The sun is sere and tends to burn things quickly here.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Monday, June 13, 2011

A little lace in the Sugar Valley....Shamoli

A gust of wind and a lot of possibilities on a summer afternoon

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Sunday, June 5, 2011

Vintage Burkha...location unk

These are the scariest looking burkhas I've ever seen.

I didn't take this picture, and I am not sure who did. I got a file of photos from afghanistan and pakistan from the 70s.

Friday, June 3, 2011

My Favorite Building in Afghanistan....Kabul (with half of TV Hill in the background)



To be honest the architecture in Kabul sucks. A lot of stuff has been destroyed, and all the new buildings are cheap mirrored glass with streaks of dirt perpetually running down the sides. All the new residential homes are worse. We call them birthday cakes. (At least Rocco was good bad.) Pak influenced and built with heroin.  I'll go get a pic of one after my shift ends.

I wish I could tell you something about the building above. I can't though.  It's an octagon. And I like to think that when the muj were in the hills above firing mortars down on this street, they tried their best not to take this thing out. tia. 

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Dresses Dresses....Kabul Kabul


A women's wear shop in the industrial district of Kabul