Mornin' Walk

Aaron and I have enjoyed having children old enough to stay home while he and I take an early morning walk.  The sun gives us enough light around 6:15, and we love to watch the change in the clouds as the sun begins its ascent.  We take the kids with us sometimes, too, usually dividing up into trios:  I take Sarah and Benjamin while Aaron takes Olivia and Katherine.

Our current SITAG house is at the bottom of the SITAG property, so we get to walk up the dirt and gravel driveway which overlooks St. Nicholas School and Honiara's harbor.  In fact, SITAG doesn't have a street address, we just tell people "on top St. Nicholas skul".  At least one of SITAG's guard dogs accompanies us each morning.  Thankfully, the dogs along our walk are much less quarrelsome than they were last year, and we've only had to throw rocks a couple of times.

 

 

 I took the camera along on our walk this morning.  I wish I could capture the beauty of God's creation here.  We found several banana trees laden with fruit,
 

 

 and a fascinating millipede-ish thing which left tracks on the dirt road.  We paused in our exercise to discover just where the insect had travelled.  It entered the road and made a big circle back to the grass not far from where it entered.  The tracks looked like little tractor treads.
 

Even early in the morning, people have already set up little road side stands to sell betel nut.  This woman had attached her lava lava to the roof to provide some shade from the rising sun.  The dyed cloth lit up like stained glass.
 



 

We only walked for about thirty minutes, but it was a great way to start the day.