24. 07. '08

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Iran lack colours. Not just Tehran. Almost everything is dirty yellow or ochre. Landscape. Cities. Yellow bricks everywhere. Yellow plaster of mud and straw. Even new housing projects are tiled with faux-yellow-bricks. Landscape surprises time to time by throwing green at you in oasis. Blue tiles on mosques or banks in cities. But the trees along the streets are not green. They're gray.

Back alley in Yazd's old town.
[Sorry for dubious technical quality of the picture, MS Paint is hell on earth.]
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