The early morning winter skies can be quite lovely here at Bagram Air Field.

Here’s a view toward the east earlier this week:

The thing that looks like a fish floating in the sky is a balloon called the “Eye in the Sky”.  It’s tethered to the ground at BAF and holds all sorts of high-tech cameras and other sensing equipment used to monitor everything on and around the base.

Here’s a view to the west from last month as the full moon was setting just after sunrise:

Sometimes it’s hard to find beauty in this place, especially when you have to keep your eyes on the ground all the time due to ice slicks and ankle-twisting gravel everywhere, but it can be found.

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