Eyes to See, Ears to Hear

Archive for November, 2007

I’ve taken so many photos both on the way to Africa and of my surroundings here in Iringa. So, I’ve decided to revive our photoblog and begin again to post our select photos.
We hope you enjoy them as much as we did taking them.

www.jonathananddana.com/photoblog

A couple of nights ago, I was walking to the other side of the campsite to help a fella out with his computer. Along the road is this tree:

Appropriately named a Sausage Tree because of these:

There are quite a few of these sausages hanging from the tree and they are heavy.  My guess is around 15-20 pounds for a full grown one.  So, that means you don’t want to be under the tree when one of these things fall because it could knock you out with ease, maybe even put you face-to-face with Jesus.
So, here I am walking with my trusty Maglite passing under the tree when I hear leaves rustling right above me.  I must have done about 8 different ninja moves before I finally aimed my flashlight upwards into the tree.  Nothing was falling but there was something moving around up there.  I was puzzled until my light hit a set of little eyes.  From that, I was able to make out the shape and color of his/her little furry body.  Sure ‘nough… it was a bush baby.  Not only one but at least two of them were up there.  I think I startled them as much as they did me.

Don’t mess with a ninja under a sausage tree… gotta be some Swahili proverb or something about that…