fresh and green

Last Monday we left Pèdè with the countryside around looking like this:

As you can see, the trees were green, but the ground was still very dry and brown. A couple of rains had done nothing to change that.

We arrived the same day in Parakou, 200km south, to find it looking like this:

Rainy season arrives, and works its renewing magic, earlier there than up North!

The day after we got back we experienced this: (This should be a video file showing the rain, but I'm not sure if it will work in this format.)

And here is Simon looking at the immediate consequences - you can tell by his clothing that the temperature hasn't gone down much!