Flowers

We have a good gardener, and some beautiful flowers.

The bees love the roses.

The yellow ones are prettiest.

I don't know the name of this one.

On the research station

The early season rains were erratic,and the corn is ragged ages.

 

 

In some districts they plant climbing beans and corn together, and the beans climb the cornstalks and mature later.

Here are beans (probably a variety trial) climbing strings.

Here is a bird that visited my house.  I'm fairly sure it is a baby, but not sure what species.

Around the office

Here are a pair of fire finches feeding near our office.

Here is the office block where I work.

Here I am on my bike, near a friend's office.

Flowers

Tulip tree in front of our fence.

Tulip tree flowers

Tulip tree flower

Hibiscus flower and a big snail

More around the house

Yellow-fronted canaries come to my yard.

to feed on the grass seed.

There are four here...can you see them?

and two puppy pictures.

Around the house

I bought a new camera over the holidays
and took a few pictures around the house
to try it out.

We didn't have enough rain during
December, but now we're having so
much that the garden creatures are
coming onto my porch.

We have a new puppy! The mother was too young,
so she only had one. She is big enough now to stumble
after her parents, and rest in the shade when they
run too fast for her.

The mother isn't much more than a puppy herself,

so she is happy to play with her puppy.

Addis: Medhane Alem Church

This is the modern church we walked around.
(There weren't any guides available.)

It is in Bole, one of the newer neighborhoods.
It also has three towers.

It is really beautiful.

And has angels guarding the doors.

And icons above the entrance.