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.

Mwanza 3

The landscape was desolate.

 Trees of any size had been 

burned into charcoal.

 Even here there was beauty.

Mwanza 2

The land that we were studying 

is rough and dry and rocky,

With occasional patches of 

soil in the valleys.

Taking samples in the rocky 

soil was difficult.