Khareef is the local term used to describe the south-west monsoon which each June literally transforms the desert into a garden of Eden.
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© Ross Hayden. Though the fig tree does not blossom...
A man in his mid-thirties came to one of my photo exhibitions in Salalah, Oman. He said he knew this tree well. I asked him to explain. He said that as a boy of 8 in 1980 he used to look after his father’s cows in the Ain Razat area. At that time this tree was alive and provided him with shade.
“What kind of tree is it?”, I asked.
He replied, “A fig tree.”
This photo encourages me in my belief that if we put out trust in the right place then times of shortage will be followed by times of plenty.
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© Ross Hayden. Boys in action - Ain Sahalnoot.
