Morning walk.

When I got up this morning it was so beautiful I had to head up the mountain. I knew by the time I got back I would pretty much be finished as this week has really taken it out of me. So as I want to go to Bishkek tomorrow I do not plan to write much today.  But one of the nice things about living here is just being so close to nature.  When I got to one of the water pumps, there was a chicken drinking.  I reached for my camera and realised I had left the memory card here in my computer, so instead just stood there drawing it as it drew water.  I then wandered up the hill till I got to a point in the river that I could not cross and just sat there and it was so quiet and calm. Just a young cow herd passing by with two cows.  Then a phone call from my colleague!  Work!.  Then wondering back down through the fields, there were all these turkeys, such beautiful colours, their red bits (snood says one site), picked out again the browns of the field and their feathers.    It was lovely.   Now all I want to do is rest.