Work – what do I think of when I think of working? At Where’s My Backpack ? Ailsa wants us to show how we think. For me, I guess much of it is about hard work with your hands, but also work together with animals. We will never manage without their help, even if technology is taking over…other values are at stake here…
Fixing my roof
Cutting grass
Training birds
Cutting Tibetan carpets
Making incence
Leya 
Some lovely work going on in your photos, done at a pace which is animal based…whether human or animal….slow, steady and absorbing, just as satisfying work should be 🙂
My thinking too!
I hope animals are always part of our lives.
We will not be able to exist without them – I’m certain about that.
I couldn’t agree more.
These are some incredible handworks! Great choices, Leya!
Thank you, Amy!
A-C, as always have you presented us with a brilliant gallery …. Not much talking going on here *smile
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A lovely selection Ann Christine. The Tibetan carpet looks gorgeous!
It was. I was worrying all the time how the cutting would go in the end…nothing protecting hands or fingers – we saw people who had lost one or two fingers.
Good choices for the theme. That carpet cutting looks like very exacting work indeed. I’ve never seen a horse-drawn grass cutter before. 😉
Sylvia, I don’t think there are many left nowadays…these great lawns are kept in the old ways – and that’s fantastic I think.
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Thank you!
Love the photo of the Tibetan carpet. I have one I treasure on my wall at home. It was a wonderful souvenir from a trip to Nepal (tibetan refugee centre) way back in 1986. A diverse variety of pictures depciting work. Well done!
I have one too. Such a treasure.
Was yours also from Nepal?
From Tibet but purchased in Nepal, yes. But not from the Refugee centre. This is one of my carpets….http://silkannthreades.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/glum-crepusculum-and-other-twilight-zones/
Beautiful!
It is – yours is beautiful.
🙂
Well…we could have met! 1986 was the year I visited Nepal too!
What a coincidence. And it was a great time to visit. I was there
Just after a big storm in which there was a people stampede at the soccer stadium in Katmandu. Mar/Apr 1986
We were there I think end of February beginning of March. Olof Palme was shot only some days before we left.
Oh we almost crossed paths!!! Amazing. Have you posted photos from your time there?
Well…what to answer to that…I cry when I think of it. All those years I had no camera, as my boyfriend was very skilled and had a much better one than I once had. So, I have only paper copies of those travels up to when I bought my first digital one..Have you posted from those days?.
Oh I am sorry to hear that AnnChristine, I have some photos I will share on the blog. So far, I have only posted one, as they have to be scanned in (not digital). Here is the link to the one I posted. I am sure you will recognize it! http://forestwoodfolkart.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/monday-mystery-photo-where-in-the-world-are-we-17/
Oh, yes…we biked that valley – which was an experience. I would not go back there now though, I think too much has changed. Thank you for sharing!
There is civil unrest, and it is not the Kathmandu of old. The maoist control much of the countryside and there is constant political upheavals and infighting so that the goverment never achieves anything of substance. I remember how the king was revered in the time that I was there. I don’ t think too much has changed visually, from what I here of friends and family who still visit.
There is a blog here that you might find interesting. Englishman living the dream in Nepal. http://hungrydai.wordpress.com/
Thank you!
Great shots. Everyone seems to be concentrating very hard on their work – and you captured that very well 🙂
Thank you so much, Mabel!
Great interpretation of the theme, Ann-Christine! Lovely shots with a story to tell, heartwarming!
He en god helg! 🙂
Love, Dina
Tack, Dina! Hoppas du också haft det gott! Jag har varit i Östersund och kommer att göra minst en post på fina upplevelser därifrån.
Lovely photos!!!
Here there isn’t any roofing of that type we have back home. No ‘tegelpannor’ …
What do you have instead?
they call it asphalt shingles.. same everywhere!
Aha!
Such SUPER pictures, Ann-Christine! please, tell me about the man with the huge bird (eagle?) in his garden! I love, too, the horse slowly ambling around with the lawn-cutter; everyone is enjoying himself, I think. 🙂 And I must mention that beautiful piece of cloth – breathtaking!
Thank you so much, M.R.The man with the birds is working as a trainer in Walsrode Fogelpark in Germany. He was very good with all his birds and had them flying in different directions – just over the heads of the audience. He had such good communication with the birds and they seemed to like each other.
Oh, I love raptors – the beauty and the efficiency! 🙂
Agree – they are immensely beautiful!