Sleep, My Pretties

No, those aren't poppies, but tulips. These are in a bed near the Tsum department store, in the pedestrian walkway that now terminates at the "SilkWay" shopping center (http://www.silkway.kz/index.php?read=52) and later becomes Zhibek Zholy that passes south of the Green Bazaar.

The very next day after this photo was taken, Almaty was covered in about an inch of wet snow.