Amazed by the fantastic carpentry all done with very basic machinery! Factory and sales room all under a leaky thatch roof on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere!

"may you find the time this weekend, to look inside yourself and "count your many blessings"..........

In Tete, Mozambique we don't get distinct seasons, well not that I notice! But the baobabs definitely change with each season! Love it when the leaves go yellow and start falling! It's our very own autumn....

we managed to make a way to get onto the new Tete bridge the other evening and managed to snap a pic. The Benga bridge will be officially opened in September, hugely helping the congestion of traffic through Tete!

The Zambezi traveller article about the bridge on the Zambezi river

"the disposable corner store".... nothing goes to waste around here....so easy to get rid of "rubbish". Fights happen over carboard boxes!

"the best time of the day, just before the dark falls.........bringing peace, quiet and cool reflection....."

it's back-breaking work being a brick maker in the HOT Tete sun......

If your soul feels frantic and your list feels long, may you find a few moments to listen in the silence and remember where your hope comes from.

"I will turn my face towards the "SON", that is where my help comes from........"

Advice from a tree: STAND TALL AND PROUD....... GO OUT ON A LIMB.......REMEMBER YOUR ROOTS..........DRINK PLENTY OF WATER.........BE CONTENT WITH YOUR NATURAL BEAUTY..........ENJOY THE VIEW!

a little school in a village we drove through this weekend... am so glad I didn't have to sit on benches like this at school!

after walking miles to get to a clinic in this awful heat, and burning up with a fever, this "water pot" under a shady tree is so welcome!