The air is cooler, the leaves are turning yellow, and the fields are gold or brown. Here are some photos of little farms near Lhasa harvesting their crops. The main crop is barley, used for their breakfast zamba (mixed with butter tea), noodles, and beer, but hundreds of greenhouses yield lots of green vegetables. One notices the Tibetan Buddhist influences everywhere: the watertap even has its own burner for offering sweetgrass. The kind older lady let me take her photo - complete with traditional apron and wooden rake.
It was the last weekend of the "Bathing Festival" Gamariji when the water is thought to have extreme powers to cure, where family go out to remote water to take a bath. Most, however, were washing clothing and carpets in the rushing stream. The hanging cloths are weathered prayer flags, not washing! I should have shot a photo of the traffic jam as family cars found a place to park!
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