Today was a great day. The flowers that Women's Resource Center in town uses to dye their yarn yellow are in season, and so today my host family, our new site mate Kate, and I all headed out to the fields to collect the flower in question
We started bright and early, all of us piling into an old Soviet-era Uaz, and drove outside out town and a few score meters higher in elevation, where the flowers were blooming beautifully.
Wildflowers are enormously abundant in the alpine meadows surrounding Sisian, but today we were interested in one flower in particular. This flower, to be precise:
And for the next few hours, we all wandered around and picked flowers into collection bags.
Occasionally, some of the party decided to knock off for a quick nap in the sun.
About the time we finished with flower collecting in the early afternoon, we were joined in the meadow by a flock of sheep. It amused me to be picking flowers that we were later going to use to dye wool with the sheep right there.
It was a phenomenal day. I had so much fun. Definitely a high point of PC service so far.
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