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Kok-Zhailau seasons

AH2A9593Every person should have a place where he or she wants and can always return. Where century-old fir trees that he or she remembers from a childhood, are still standing, where butterflies dance around from dawn to dusk, where a familiar stream still runs and plays with colored pebbles. Yellow-red-brown forests are the watercolors of September, aquamarine waters of October rivers which are tired and quieted down after summer, the first frost of November with ringing icicles and frost needles. And finally, snow, snow, snow … lulling ridges and valleys, meadows and lakes, bringing them sweet winter dreams.

Seasons — change of colors, sounds, smells, rhythms, moods of the Earth. The magical eternal cycle of life, created by nature. Every time when the annual cycle is completed and the clock for a second freezes on the number 12, we know that the arrow will rush further. We are sure that spring will come and everything will start over again: birds will start singing again, timid leaves will open up on the trees, rivers will wake up, and the first storm will rinse the renewed world. Nature is traditional, and this is her charm. That is why we are so attracted by the never-ending ball of the seasons.

And you want not only to come back again and again and contemplate the nature’s miracles, but at least for a moment, become a musician, a poet or an artist to work with nature, to save the cherished places admired since childhood.

Protect Kok-Zhailau!

Journey to the land of the first flowers of the spring

Иридодиктиум Колпаковского необычной окраскиSpring has come, it’s time to start a new filming season. Our first trip is traditionally dedicated to the first flowers of the spring.

On March 24, our small crew hit the road. The day was not the best because of the weather. Thick fog covered the mountains in the morning, and rain clouds appeared later in the day. To the point, by the time we were returning to the city, it was raining.

But we decided not to postpone the trip and we did not regret it. After about forty minutes of driving up the main road to the mountains, we randomly turned onto a dirt road. There was an evidence of intensive grazing everywhere. Our hope to find the first flowers of the spring began to fade away. But suddenly, here and there we noticed snowdrops (Crocus alatavicus). Because it was an early overcast morning, the flowers were still closed up. The further we followed the mountain gorge, the more flowers we saw.

The road ended. When we got out of the car, we realized that we were in the land of the first flowers of the spring. Crocuses, Corydalises, Gageas were everywhere… On the slopes, there were whole meadows of irises (Iridodictyum kolpakowskianum). Leaves of tulips have already emerged from the ground, there will be quite a few of those too. Another interesting feature of this place are willows, which seem to be at least a hundred years old. The trunk is so thick that even two people won’t be able to wrap themselves around it. And the bark is like a three-dimensional map with mountains, valleys, rivers and even craters.

But, as they say, it’s better to see once than hear a hundred times. The photographs are below.

Text and photos by Nataliya Medvedeva.

See also:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb2gLp5BKT4&t=1s