Uke Christmas Concert

My first concert after the fall!

Meet the Owls

Waiting to Greet You at the Front Door!

Halloween is Coming

Cranberry Bogs Aflame

Henry and Nala

Keeping their eyes on movement in the the front yard

The Clematis, August 2023

The flowers have begun to climb the pine tree. That is a good thing as soon enough that tree will have to come down. The upper branches are dying, but I’ll leave the trunk for the clematis.

The July 4th Uke Concert: Rain and All

Changes

These are pictures I took on my return to Ghana.

This was my house. I was the first to live in it. I was sorry to see it in such bad shape, but when I went back a year later, it had been painted.

This is exactly the same view as in a picture from 1969. I took both pictures from the veranda of the house where I lived with my Ghanaian family in Bawku. No one lives in the house now, but I was able to visit it.

This woman is the last still living of my Ghanaians father’s four wives. I used to visit their compound as they lived in a different house than my father. I was thrilled to find this woman still remembered me.

Training Pictures

This is the day we left for Ghana for training. I’m on this bus. Someone had taken the picture and I found it much later. I was thrilled to have it.

This is the the picture I took from my dorm walkway my first morning in Ghana.

These are pictures of our first week in training when we visited the chief of Winneba and greeted him.

This is not the chief. It is one of his elders.

You can see the linguist carrying the golden staff. The chief only speaks through the linguist. You can barely make out the chief’s eyes in front of the man with the white shirt.

The men are both linguists. They shook our hands and greeted us.

These next three pictures were taken our last week of training, week 11. We were at Legon, at the University of Ghana. It was where we were finally sworn in as volunteers.

You can barely see my friends Bill and Peg. I have mentioned them in Coffee as they come twice a year to visit.