one with a South American tree frog on it. Correct hemisphere, wrong continent. Tracy attached it to a post in the garden. Today we had quite a storm which lasted for over an hour. Hail arrived, too, I'm told, although I didn't hear or see it. Thought you might like to see how things look outside our windows during the rainy season.
The first picture is out our kitchen window with a view of our cannas and thatched insaka. I felt like I was standing behind a waterfall, like the one in Last of the Mohicans. ("No matter what, I'll come for you!" the hero cried.) Tracy had built a French, or Zambian drain, if you will, outside this window which has helped tremendously.Next is a picture of our garden on the southwest side of our house. This was happening during the heaviest part of the rain and a few limbs came down. Our corn is mostly local (very tough and not very sweet), but there is a row of sweet corn from the US. It is not doing that well and is much smaller than Zambia's. In addition, this rain flattened it in the process! I guess it's not living very well cross-culturally!
The third picture shows the creek developing outside our living room (sitting room) window. Guess we need a Zambian drain on this side, eh?Behind our house is a place where the Makeni Center parks its vehicles. When it rains, we like to call this area Lake Makeni (fourth picture). Tracy had tried to divert the flow of water with a ditch
filled with gravel. However, it's been tough to get the angle just right.
Because the soil is pretty sandy here, the water seeps into the ground rather quickly. Just checked the rain gauge~almost 2.5 inches. Certainly seemed like more!
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