I did some correspondence blog-to-blog when I ran across a posting with photos of Zarnegar Park from the ’70s. Here’s the way things looked the first two times I was in Afghanistan;

http://afghanistanonmymind.blogspot.com/2011/10/zarnegar-park-in-kabul.html

I’m not sure it’s possible to get photos from the same place as the ones that ‘Afghanistan On My Mind’ used but I hope to get some shots from a place where it is possible to see the before and after layout. The Adbul Rahman Khan Mausoleum (above) might be the only identifiable element after forty years.

My favorite photos from my one day of photo activity on the grounds are of some of the groundskeepers. Like most other (male) Afghans they wanted to have their picture taken. They must have recognized that they were good subjects for the camera.