Mua in 2012

 

Last year I went to Mua with a 

visiting student, Mel.

 

The museum has a lot of history about 

three of the Malawian tribes.

We drove back along the lakeshore.

Weaver birds

 Some spectacled weavers visited my 

house a couple of weeks ago.

The female went all around the 

house, trying to peck 

her way into the windows.

 The male has a black patch 

under his bill.

One day a southern masked 

weaver also came by.

Twilight

I took some twilight pictures of Lake 

Theo and some windmills a couple 

of years ago, and just this week noticed 

something different about them.

 

Here I wanted the reflection

 of the trees in the lake.

 

If you look just left of the trees, you 

can see the silhouette of a deer. 

 Here are windmills against the sunset.

 But here it looks like the windmills 

are spinning really fast, when 

it was really my exposure time 

getting longer.

Drongos and Sunbirds

Female Amethyst Sunbird, left of middle

and hanging in the top left

 Forked-tailed Drongo

 

Baby Drongo?

Around the house

 

The rain has made the roses beautiful...

 

And the house geckos are...

Having babies...

And the snails are climbing trees

 to stay out of the water.

Church painting

Along the road from Mwanza, I noticed that 

the small Catholic churches were all 

getting a paint job.

Beautiful colors!

Mwanza 4

 These are Brachistegia trees, typical 

of these dry forests.  They are left 

because they are poor firewood.

 Charcoal, the main product

of Mwanza.

Crushed rocks in three colors, 

another major product of  Mwanza.