Outposts in the Desert

A typical scene along our route to Turkistan. Many of these lonely communities comprise only a handful of such buildings: a corral, an outhouse, a feed bin maybe a shade tree or two and not much more. Notice the beautiful blue trim on the white, adobe house. Despite their isolation, its apparent that local people still proudly adorn their houses with a coat of fresh sky-blue paint, the anthem of the great open steppe.