Village Life

I love my village.  The mountains that surround my village are breathe taking.   Contrast of old world with the new one.  Actually they have three contrasting elements.  The horse and cart and the car that looked like my Skoda car when I was in the Czech Republic, and then they have either the brand new BMW or a Mercedes.

Oldest

Old

New

Please note in the picture below the blog in which I talked about roadside gasoline in plastic bottles, well here is proof!!

Roadside Gas Station!!

 I cannot make this stuff up! It is for real.  Aliabad is mostly a farming village, whereas at any given time a tractor will be driving by or a herd of sheep, a few cows and a zillion chickens may cross your path (pictures to post in the future).  Every morning when I venture out to walk to school, I wonder who, or what is going to cross my path in the morning.  Believe it or not, it is a wonderful blend of old and new and at some point, the old will catch up but I hope not too soon.  It is a lovely village and I know that God was in a good mood when he created this part of the “Middle Finger”.

And then He got mad.  When I first wrote this blog it was a few days ago and as you can see by the pictures above, it was beautiful, cold (actually freezing) but at least the sun is out. Now I want to show you the pictures I took yesterday:

From my window

From my window

This is NOT funny.  It has been snowing ever since.  Hmmm, I think someone is laughing and it is not me!!

Life Challenge:  I'd rather regret the things I've done then regret the things I haven't done... Lucille Ball