I (Steve) have made two trips to the Dominican Republic in the past several weeks. Our dump truck has unfortunately been going through differentials at an alarming rate, and we need to go over there to get repairs done. So the first time I went over with Michael Rudolph, who had been there several times before and knew some contacts there. This last time I went with Nate Grice; we went over last Tuesday morning and returned on Friday.

Flowers...

On a hike recently, I shot some pictures of flowers along the path. Hope you enjoy them like I did...

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.

Bonus #2! :-)
Men working in a yam garden...