A walk in Erbil

Last Friday I spent much of the day sitting behind my computer working on geophysical training materials for my team. Late in the afternoon I went for a walk around the Ankawa district just to stretch my legs. The temperature was dropping 12 degrees, so I figured it might be a bit windy outside, and it was.. With no rain for months, it was also a dusty, not quite a dust storm, but the streets were oddly quiet and the sky was brown. It was hard to see some of the tops of the taller buildings in the distance. I took some photos to give you a sense of the Ankawa district of the modern city of Erbil. There no agenda in these image; they just struck me as interesting, iconic, or humorous. There are normally a lot more people, and the sky is quite a bit bluer.