two burmese milkshake makers in the act of cutting (hacking) a bol fruit - the bol fruit is also found in India, where it is known as the medicine fruit, since it cures most kinds of diarreah (everything except amoebic). The fruit has a hard shell something like a coconut, stringy orange pulp which is quite honey-like. Someday I hope to include it in my coffeetable book of "Exotic Fruit Around the World"
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more than just a metaphor, this cart REALLY was before the horse....
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DUCK EGG OMELETTE.....to quote a Christopher Guest film, sometimes "...even I'M jealous of me!"... This morning, got up lazyboy style at 11, threw together this PURFEC omelette lovely jubbly-style, made with toasted garlic, peppered (literally) with sweet red bell peppers, grated hard Gouda and Romano cheeses, the whole damn schlossmik was so good looking and smelling I just had to get this picture (scratch and sniff at your own peril)
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something tells me that the word 'picnic' for these people has a totally different meaning, independent of language translation problems...
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This is a kind of convenience store (the pile on the left, not the right, which is a kind of buddhist-shamanist good luck pile) on a mountain pass in the wilds of Mongolia
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The first time I saw outdoor billiard tables, they were beside a lake in the Himalayas, surrounded by glaciers and peaks over 5000 meters- I thought it was something that these tribes of different traditions could get together over. This picture, from a marketplace near the former capital of Genghis Khan, sort of confirms that theory (Mongols were once many tribes as well)
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Yes, that is a "PARKING" sign there, and next to it, a "Do Not Enter, One Way" sign next to it. The Mongolians can be neat, tidy, AND logical in the middle of nowhere. The tent in the foreground is the equivalent of a tourist trap concession, selling, naturally, things made of wool, the only material availiable here. One wonders how much it cost to build the fence out of wood, which grows ever scarcer here.
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The timelessness of the wheel is reflected in this truckstop in the middle of nowhere (which is EVERYWHERE) in Mongolia....
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