Orchards

 Southwestern Afghanistan is extremely dry.  It's basically a desert, though it does have a thin river or two winding through it.  But the Afghans are exceptional at making the most of the scant water resources there, and nearly every time you see a patch of vegetation, you can bet that the green part is irrigated.  Here are orchards from a bit to the north of Kandahar city.  I couldn't have recognized the tree even at ground level, unless maybe it had fruit on it, so I sure couldn't tell from the air what they were.  This was maybe a couple of weeks after pomegranate harvest, though, so maybe many of these are pomegranate orchards.  There are probably some apple trees mixed in there as well.  At any rate, you can see the leaves have turned color, and the ruts and rows for regular vegetables and grains have long since been harvested.  It still is very hot in the daytime, in the 80s or so with a bright burning sun, but at night it dips into the low 40s, maybe even 30s F.