[Leica] IMGS: Abyaneh, Iran

[Jim Nichols]

Tina, they are all getting posted.  I've enjoyed browsing, even without 
your explanations.  It looks like the lady from Tehran had plenty to 
say! :-)

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 5/10/2016 1:36 PM, Tina Manley wrote:
> PESO:
>
> I'm not sure any of these are getting through but I'm continuing to post
> anyway!!  We visited an ancient Zoroastrian red mud village in the
> mountains near Isfahan.  There are only 30 families left there and they are
> mostly elderly people.  The kids have all left for the cities.  We visited
> a bakery, met some women on the street and talked to Soghra, an Abyanaki
> widow. The women here wear a colorful chador which is their traditional
> costume. They speak Middle Persian here which is very different from Farsi
> but Hossein managed to translate most of what she had to say.  She had come
> back to visit but now lives in Tehran.  Her only son, a doctor who lived in
> Kerman, had died of a heart attack when he was only in his 50's.  She comes
> back to the village for the quiet and to get away from the city.  We really
> like this village and would go back any time.  I have a lot more photos to
> process from there!
>
> http://tinamanley.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Iran/G0000YmlbTddL96g/I0000PrFtiRdZnKo
>
> And keep going until there aren't any more!!
>
> C&C greatly appreciated.
>
> Tina