Dry Season

We made a safe return a week ago to Iringa, only to discover that we have once again missed the change of seasons. The lush green mountainsides that we left only two months ago are now strewn with the colors of straw and bark brown. The cold winter dry season is waning and the sun and cloudless skies of the hot-dry season are slowly gathering force. Dry grass (majani) is now being harvested and bound into sheaves for thatching and re-thatching roofs this dry season.