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| Bonus picture!!! Looking down into the Allegre valley... The group of buildings to the right includes the church and school. The mission is almost directly ahead... Can you see the road below, with a pickup on it? Where that disappears it also curves sharply to the left... After a few hundred feet the mission drive branches off to the right. |
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| Bonus #2! :-) Men working in a yam garden... |
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| On the way... I never cease to marvel at the beauty of this country... |
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| There is so much potential in such a fruitful country... |
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| There was a meeting going on up at the church, regarding the upcoming school year. It will begin the first of October... |
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| The bean crop- one of the staples of agriculture here- is coming on beautifully! The plants are blossoming now.... |
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| Definitely the cutest hiker in the bunch.. :-) He's getting so strong it amazes us sometimes, hiking up the mountains tirelessly... |
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| The mountainside... |
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| All the green foliage of the bean plants adds greatly to the beauty of the landscape... Here is a glimpse up close... |
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| Heading up the winding trail to reach the top of the ridge at the right of the picture... |
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| Looking back the trail we just passed... Hard to even see a trail, the tropical vegetation closes in behind... |
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| Anybody know what that is? Looks like some kind of cactus growing on the limb of this tree, I'm not sure what it is. |
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| On March 30th, several of the guys that were down on a team along with Polveret (left) and Vixen (center) and myself (invisible), went on a hike to "the waterfalls", about an hour and a half away. It's a real killer of a climb down in and back out, but it's worth it to see the lovely falls... |
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| This bottom part falls about 60 or 70 feet into a nice little pool; quite an impressive little drop. This being the end of the dry season, the water level is fairly low. When we get into the rainy season, there will be a significant increase in the water flow... |
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| There are some really neat rock formations and growths in various small caves around the area... |
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| Aaahhhh, a refreshing spot to swim!!! Several of us took a dip in the pool at the base of the falls- wow was the water ever cold!!! I didn't realize before that there were any melting ice fields in Haiti!! :) I'm not sure where the water comes from, but I would imagine there is a spring not too far above the falls..... |
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| Alex helping to carry gravel up from the riverbed for a project around the mission here. He loves to help out when people are working wherever he can... (shhh- don't tell him it's work and you're not supposed to like it; where ignorance is bliss...) |
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| One of the little neighbor boys knocked this poor birdy out of a tree with a rock. ?! . Yeah- they're that good at throwing down here, they have lots of time to practice- on each other occasionally... :( |
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| After reprimanding the scoundrels who perpetrated this act of malice, my wife took a few pics with the little blondy, who was quite pleased with the catch and (I think) can hardly wait to grow up so he can knock a bird out of a tree... :) Actually he felt sorry for the little critter, it was still alive... The nationals said it's some kind of hummingbird... Maybe one of you knows what it is...? Drop us a comment... |
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| It's amazing how green Haiti can be; three days of rain probably doesn't hurt anything... Looking in the general direction of the church, from the new depot... |
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| Looking back over the mission compound to the mountain behind. The Horner's house is in the foreground, note the goat on the porch...:) Just a peak of our house is visible beyond... |
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| This rainy weather has been going on for 3 or 4 days, the most rain we've seen since we've been here. The river has been flowing steadily... |
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| Rainy weather in Aleg... Mountains are in the fog, notice the river flowing in the ordinarily dry river bed below the mission. |
