The Kara-Buura garden

notes that grow slowly, about a valley I left and keep going back to

Kyzyl-Adyr place names

seedling · planted 2025-03 · tended 2025-03

Collecting the names people use for places in town that are on no map: "the hot pipe" (where the heating main crosses the ditch and the snow never stays), "the Bulgarian" (a shop, no idea why), "the old cinema" (it was never a cinema). More to come.