Amid the pistachios boughs ...

If you live rural area of a country, you should know very well that everybody has a particular job in the family. For instance, in the harvesting time of pistachios, someone has to pick the pistachios in the upper brances of a tree. However, these guys should be a little small and light in weight in order to avoid damaging of the tree. Yes, children of the family are good prototype for this kind of a job. I am not sure whether fortunate or unfortunate these children are, but this is a reality. Honestly, now I myself miss this old times.

The Scent of Pistachios

Yes, it has unique, fantastic and lively colour, we can easily see these characteristics in every part of the pictures. More than that, it has a stunning fragrance throughout its trunk, branches, leaves and fresh fruits. I wish you smelled this amazing scent. Unfortunately, we do not have yet a technology which has ability of transmitting odour via online! Probably one day!

... And The Grapes of Balaban

The generous land of Barak plateau naturally provides plenty of fruits and crops, like grapes. Do you know that different grape species have distinct sized and coloured leaves? Yes, I know who cares! Unfortunately, people always want their distinct characteristics to be understood by other people. Ok. I respect this, but I guess nature and land consist of some sort of different features too. What a surprise! I think, step by step we can find some additional hints related to similarity between human beings and land (nature). Yes, absolutely every grape has a diffirent personality! Let's see:
Darker green, thinner and smaller leaves for white grapes.

Are these two upper white grapes same kind, what do you say?

And black grapes have thicker, bigger and more figured leaves.
And a little dusted, because the black easily displays dust! However, they are really yummy!

It is an interesting tree indeed

As I said before, the pistachios is really an impressive tree. This tree is over 20 years old. Interestingly, the growing of the pistachios tree has a similarity with human being in terms of time and effort. Almost all pistachios trees begin to give crops approximately at age of 15. Planting the tree alone is not enough, they need to be cared closely throughout these years. So, you have to work and spend money for many years without harvesting anything in order to raise the pistachios. As I said, it looks like human being!

By the way, you can see some boughs belong to an olive tree in the left handside of the picture, of course this land is pretty fertile!

It is just a village by the way ...

This is the land of delicious and colorful pistachios.
This is the land of abundant plateau.
This is the land of touching and stirring folk songs.
This is the center of the Barak Culture and Turkmen.
This is the land has witnessed the living history since the times of Hittites, (Carablus, Karkamis).
Here is the Barak Plateau in Gaziantep, Turkey. And here is one of the important village of Karkamis Province, here is Balaban Köyü (Village).

There is a village in there

When you travel from the city center of Gaziantep to Balaban Koyu, firstly this view of Balaban greets you directly from over small mound. This sight belongs to a typical village of southern Turkey, pretty plain land, partly wooded region, rather agricultural fields. This scene is taken in the middle of the summer, that's why everywhere is pretty dry. That' s true fairly dry, most of time!

Do you like capers? If you have not seen yet, the small bushes just left alongside the road are totally capers. Watch out! it has really keen and hook thorn with its fruit.

Have you ever seen the pistachio tree? You easily see the young pistachio trees in the left side of road. Yes, I know they look like a little mature bush, but in fact they are really big, impressive and strong kind of tree. We will see it later!