Feb 28 - Butterflys & flowers
The butterfly & flowers create wonderful splashes of color out in the jungle.
The butterfly & flowers create wonderful splashes of color out in the jungle.
Brazil = Soccer. A national pastime. A national fever. A national obsession. Brazilians love soccer the way Americans love football, baseball, & basketball... combined. Kids are always playing the game and they do not stop. ever. This was taken out in the bush. The boy had no shoes nor shirt, but he had a soccer ball and he knew how to use it:)
The transamazon highway was about washed out. This bus got stuck trying to get around the hole in the road. This is a pretty common occurence.
Suzanne, what a wife:) I am really happy to be married to her and definitely enjoy our relationship...
Our family stopped at a bakery here in town. The kids all became very enamored with the cakes in the display:)
Alvino is a friend out in the community of Dry Gulch. He is a rancher and has opened his home to house church meetings. He is pretty typical of the rugged characters that spot the landscape down here.
Fishermen have no qualms about crossing the immense rivers here. It is not unusual to see a canoe traversing a river 5 or 10 miles wide.
The moon is shining over a cloud bank and highlighting some trees along the river bank.
OK, time for Caleb to do his Huck Finn imitation:) These guys like to play in the straw hats and it helps that they are photogenic.
A typical scene around Altamira and pretty much any city in Brazil. Street vendors attach carries to their bikes & sell "merenda", or snacks, to pedestrians.
A photo of the bay at Alter do Chão, a small town near Santarém. The moon gave a wonderful reflection as it set.
Anna falling down in the grass:) A new & fun expereince for her, walking through the tall grass, having to lift her little feet so high:)
A parrot belonging to one of the homes I visit out in the community of Grota Seca.
A photo of our garden & a fletting moment when a butterfly decided to land on a flower right in front of me:)
Caleb, Anna, & Daniel, having fun with their hats. I could not get them to sit still, but I could get them all to smile:)
My son Caleb clowning around... he thought it was fun to put a cloth on his head(like a pirate) and around his face (like a cowboy). My kids make me smile:)
This is from the Fisherman's Market in Santarem, where men haul fish from the boats to the market in the baskets on their head.
A photo from the Fisherman's market... A variety of ground manioc, rice, & beans, all sold in bulk.
I had the chance to take this on a recent trip to Santarem. I visited there with my family a couple of weeks ago.
In the little town of Alter de Chao, there are 100 of these canoes. They will take people across from the harbor to a beach on the other side of the bay.
A typical road through the interior of the Amazon jungle. The red clay dirt is common in our region.
Well, we just spent a couple of weeks travelling. I took this shot of some boats under the moonlit in a little harbor during our trip:)
The fair is in town, or as Daniel likes to say, the "County Fair":)
Just a night shot at a 1 second exposure.
Line boats are the greyhound buses of the Amazon Jungle region. Up river from Altamira they take on a different shape and style rather than down river, due to the fact that the river has more rapids and white water.
Ok, so it isn't am all white horse, but I still thought it was pretty:) This is from a recent trip to the assurini, where cattle and cowboys are a way of life. This horse was in the pasture of one of the homes we visited.
These little flowers are called "Onze Horas", which means 11 o'clock. They stay open until about 11am and then fold up in the heat of the day and open up again the next morning:)
A fisherman heads out early in the morning from the house where I stayed on a recent trip.
