Today I am posting random pictures and a video and will give some captions to each...
This is a photo of a typical window in Sheki...
This is a photo of a tractor that I took last time we were travelling back from Sheki. I don't think it was abandoned but probably parked.
This photo I called colours of Soviet Union. Popular in Soviet times "zhiguli" and another tractor look so Soviet, although I love the colours...
This is a video of "Oil rocks" island of Azerbaijan. This island was made in 1949 by people for world's first!!! offshore oil exploration.
Now when Azerbaijan is rushing to turn from a developing to developed country I am thinking to myself how developed it must have been to have an island like "Oil rocks" back in 1949...
Old tractors and zhigulis can seem like a burden although to me they are all part of history...while we all happily changed seats from zhigulis to newly made cars, for some reason I don't think I would ever change the way the windows of my house look in Sheki...it is interesting how there is a thin line between something that becomes burdensome and outdated and something that becomes historic and antique...
While some scenes of the video may seem "shocking" and "polluted" it is important to keep things in perspective...
I hope you enjoy the process of discovering Azerbaijan...
Be well.
Be well.
