Green


At one point, while in Daboya village, I unknowingly engaged a 'color selection' mode. The result is that the only color appearing in these pictures is anything green. The results are interesting.




Before the flooding, these were corn fields. Now, there is almost nothing green to be seen. A critical source of food and income, gone.


Local farmers point out the extent of the damage.






In remote villages like this one, many people have never seen a white person before.


Not much green in this picture of me in front of a mosque, either...


We stopped for lunch on the way back, at a random place, on the dusty road in the middle of nowhere. Our lunches had been prepared for us from the hotel and brought in a cooler. One thing you can be sure of as a guest in Ghana, is that whatever you are being served, is the very best that they have to give. In this case, they had prepared sandwiches on white bread; but these weren't desirable to most of the group who tried to discretely discard the food. As we were about to get back into the vans, we noticed a bunch of children hiding some distance away, watching carefully and waiting for us to leave so that they could take whatever we left. Someone called to the kids, who timidly ran over to where we were. The leftover food and soda were given to the kids, who absolutely freaked out with joy, to be receiving our scraps.




Mike teaches the kids how to snap a bottle cap.






Doesn't this little guy just look like a character?







This baby is tasting her first Sprite. Never mind that she is only 5 months old.