Arghandab River

Here you can see the stretch of vegetation, in this case irrigated orchards, along the river - the Arghandab, near Kandahar city, an area hotly contested over the past few months between US Marines and the insurgency.  As mentioned previously, it's just past harvest season, so the leaves have turned and many of the fields are already denuded, but you can see the grids of each farming plot.  This is a fairly populated and prosperous part of Afghanistan.