En Route to Svaneti, Georgia

Exercises in Creative Fencing, Samegrelo province... with mountains looming as always in the background.

(I'm actually away in Kakheti with Someone as these last 2 days of posts are hitting the blog, thanks to being able to "send now, post later". Back on Tuesday.)

En route to Svaneti, Georgia

I know, these are all out of order from the whole last trip to Svaneti - the first ones I showed were from the last day, and now I'm showing ones from the way up there... whatever.

This is a bus stop in rural Samegrelo.

Milking, Samegrelo, October 2002

Nodar's aunt hard at work at home in her small village. We would often stop here on our way to Svaneti, arriving late from Tbilisi and staying the night with her and her son.

A close look wil reveal the all-important detail, a jet of milk. I also like the way that we get a complete cow only from parts of several.

Dates drying, Samegrelo, Georgia, October 2002

I'd never seen undried dates until this greenhouse in rural Samegrelo. So THIS is what they look like! So soft and squishy they could almost fall apart. They'll soon turn dark brown with a natural sugar coating and be magnificently ready to consume.