Peace Corps takes you to some far-out places. This is me, posing in front of a yurt during a blizzard. The yurt was about four miles above a small village in eastern Kyrgyzstan called Ichkey-Jergez, nestled in the foothills of the Terskey Ala-Too...
I took this picture in January 2008 in Kazakhstan. The Moroz (Frost) in Kazakhstan could get down to deathly temperatures, but at the same time it could be one of the most amazing and beautiful scenery to encounter. When the Moroz would set in on...
This picture was taken of my town, Shar- e -kurd in the winter of 1971. You never went ourtside alone in the winter. Wild dogs and wolves would come down from the mountains and look for food. Shar-e-kurd had a reputation of being one of the coldest...
This photo was taken by a RPCV at "Prolisok," just outside of Kyiv, Ukraine. "Prolisok" is where we spent our first nights in Ukraine, so it is a place of vivid memories for our entire group.
Weather; Environment; Host community; Traditional dress
While accompanying my companion on a visit to one of the 30 communities of San Bartolome Jocotenango, we encountered these two women at the unfinished church before we reached their house. The umbrella, instead of for protection from the rain, was...
This was the view out the front door of my house in the pueblo. That particular day, a storm had just swept in as the neighbor began to burn his yard. The smoke rose up and danced with the wind as I went inside to grab my camera and try to capture...
Early in my services, Knowledge (the finance manager at my NGO site) and his son took me on a tour of surrounding communities. Caught in unexpected rain and wind, both struggled for shelter under their umbrellas. Taken in the north of the Limpopo...
This photo shows the view from my apartment in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. Winters are long, cold and snowy there but kids enjoy playing hockey in the courtyard no matter what the weather is like.