A day in the mountains for N. Iraq

These are pictures from a trip to the
mountains ouside of Erbil. It was
a beautiful day...and one that I
won't forget. The people to the
left are Dick, a retired colonel from
Illinois (he now works as a
consultant to the Barzani family
and the current government)
and Pam, the mother of a friend
here in the English Village. She has

been visiting from Australia and
needed a traveling companion for

day, so I was glad to oblige.
It was quite a day...and ended
with dinner at a tribal leader's
compound. We happened to meet
him along the way and he is an
old friend of Dick's.

This is a beautiful waterfall
in an area called "the gully."
It is actually a canyon with
mountains all around.