Here in the Negev I usually see Bedouin girls or boys watching the sheep and/or goats.
But if we enlarge this photo (click two separate times), we see an older man and woman in the traditional Bedouin garb moving their flock.
In the early morning sun the bus cast a giant shadow as we drove southward.
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(Linking to Camera Critters.)
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Not sure I have seen any shepherd in the last years...
ReplyDeleteThis brings a new awareness to my notion of critters to join this meme. I hope these sheep live a pretty good life.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful colors iwith the blue sky and sand. I have seen the same one time in Negev. Is it a priison in the picture?
ReplyDeleteVP, flock and shepherd are a lovely sight, especially in the green meadows of Europe.
ReplyDeleteBlack Jack's Carol, well, I think the ewes are mostly for milk and cheese.
Bedouins see livestock as a walking bank account. Better a sheep in the hand than a shekel in the bank.
Spiderdama, I'm not sure.
Quite a dramatic picture. In some ways- like herding in this fashion- their lives haven't changed that much. In other ways, changes comes.
ReplyDeleteA beautiful sight. It looks like you'd have to move quite a lot to find enough grazing area for such a large flock.
ReplyDeleteHow lovely!
ReplyDeleteIt looks very... Biblical!:-)
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit like VP... The last time I saw lots of sheep was in Scotland and Wales but no shepherd in sight... Seeing a Bedouin is even better, it's a Sunday treat!
ReplyDeleteThis photo stuns me with the gleaming modern buildings and antennae in the background, while life goes on as it has for countless thousands of years in the foreground. It seems a little surreal. It makes me think I prefer the life of the shepherds, so connected to the land (I say, while typing on my computer, connected to the Internet . . . hmmmm, perhaps I really don't know what I'm talking about!)
ReplyDeleteYou can see a lot of interesting things outside a window.
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