The Himalayan Edelweiss
The lady's coat is back from the tailor. No pictures of it yet I am afraid, but there will be soon! I have done a little drawing of a Himalayan Edelweiss to go inside it. I saw quite a few of these in 2006 near Baroghil around the Karumba lake on the border with Afghanistan's Wakhan corridor. It's a beautiful area of high altitude pasture, famed for it's wild flowers... and very remote, it take 3 days or so to walk in from the jeep road. I pressed quite a few flowers (below) and also started a drawing of local Wakhi women spinning wool- the same technique which is used in the manufacture of shu.
