If you click on the photo to enlarge the view, you'll be able to see Kilimanjaro's icy peak - as viewed from our farm at the moment We're having so much rain on the farm at the moment, and there seems no end in sight ! We have a few hours - or a day or two - of sunshine, before it comes bucketing down again. Roads turn to slush, dogs are shooed out as their muddy paw prints cover the floors, cat's stay curled up inside all day in warm spots, washing remains damp and kids are housebound (and, after a while even previously 'fun' things like painting and various crafts are deemed 'b-o-r-i-n-g !') But, as a farmer's wife .... I'll try not to complain !
However, with all this rain comes a certain feeling of 'newness' as Africa's dust is washed clean, shoots of new grass and tiny wildflowers appear at our feet almost overnight, the African earth turns a deeper red, the sky a crisper blue and Kilimanjaro's snow capped peak, a more brilliant white.
You can almost breathe the newness in, feel it all around you and although it's hard to capture in a photograph, I took one to share with you all (click on the photo above to enlarge it) ... to try and give you an idea of what I mean.
You can almost breathe the newness in, feel it all around you and although it's hard to capture in a photograph, I took one to share with you all (click on the photo above to enlarge it) ... to try and give you an idea of what I mean.
This photo was taken last week, just before you turn in to the road which takes you past the farm guest house & straight to our house - the building to the right of the photo is part of our farm labourer's quarters, the dark green triangular hilly part which you see just meeting the skyline is part of the Kilimanjaro forest and, of course, that great white icy chunk looming up ahead is the snowy top of Mt Kilimanjaro herself - in all her glory !
