ok and a preview shot: this yiayia

was out herding cows ( which i belive is winking at the camera!) when a colleague asked if she could see the calfs, which were eventually herded into a pen so that she could pet them. I resisted the urge to pet wet bovines. But, as i was walking into the field, i realized that you can take the girl out of new york, but you can't take the ann taylor from the girl. I found myself walking in black ballet slippers through fields of planet size cow manure and reminded myself that only hiking boots are appropriate for anything outside of the office in Mongolia.

a photo

early august was ushered in with a visit to one of Mongolia's oldest coal mines, nothing too exciting, but i got this great photo (to the left, one on right is basically what it looks like in the field) of a scene from the repair shop that should belong to a horror movie and thought i would post. the following visit, an 8 hour trip out west is much less horrorific. but that'll have to wait for the next post.