Pictures from April

If you head out our lane and turn left on the road, you encounter this piece of work. Fortunately we don't have to go this way usually.  The green has come out of nowhere and its so beautiful.

Our biggest water tank could probably have been filled 2-3 times now from the amount of rain. We haven't managed to make a rain gauge yet. Notice that the ground has generally become a lake. This is the normal look out the back door during our late afternoons and evenings this rainy season.

Evening jaunt around the block to watch the sunset and storm clouds over Mt. Suswa.

Our welcoming service and also the goodbye service for the folks before us.  The traditional look for Maasai women is shaved heads and lots and lots of beads.

During our first weeks, one of the partner organizations had  one of their final goat distributions just next door to our house.  225 young goats were painted with a number like they were entering a race and then the people pulled a random number and went into the pen to find their lucky goat.  It was interesting to watch them be caught and lead out.

You stay close when your master's got a grip on your ear!

Ever seen a big purple slug before? I guess is the plum version of the famous banana slug?

Posing in the tea fields. The call it the "tea table" because they pick the bushes all to the same height. These tea bushes are years old. It was fascinating to learn the origin of tea.

Beginning of April the MCC staff of all Kenya had a one day retreat/meeting at a small tea plantation in the highlands north of Nairobi that serves a gourmet lunch on the lawn and gives a tour of the plantation, as well as, a bottomless tea cup.

This is the MCC Kenya staff but there are two less couples now since we said farewell to two lovely families right after this gathering. There's some great folks to be working alongside here.

The site of our future dream garden. There's a little bit of work to do to get it going...

This one was just today as we managed the second river crossing that we have in order to get  "out" to Nairobi.  The first river crossing has kept us  in Najile a few times this week.  The rainy season is wonderful for the land, but it really can dictate the schedule.