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- Ethiopia, US Billionaire's Titan Resources Signs Oil Accord - Bloomberg
- Ethiopia targets women's 5000m podium sweep - guardian.co.uk
- Dining: Veggie goes to Ethiopia - Jerusalem Post
- Ethiopia's Gelete Burka failed to advance to Women's 1500m Final - Nazret.com
- US suspends refugee program after DNA fraud - AFP
Every Human Has Rights
This evening a gray heron wandered along the side of the river behind our house. I got a few pictures of it before it dove under water. But I still cannot upload photos. Still won't waste/spend the time to figure out how to ftp. Still cannot get a crossout to show up on the homepage. Still cannot participate in Wordless Wednesday. Do a Google image search on 'gray heron' and consider your favorite my Wordless Wednesday posting for this week. And buy stock in blogspot.
Last Wednesday, in honor of spring, many people posted close-ups of flowers for Wordless Wednesday. That's not what spring looks like where I am so I prepared a series of photographs showing the progressive melting of the ice on the river in our backyard, surrounded by trees with barely-visible buds.
However, Wordpress kept hounding me to upgrade to its latest version; and upgrade we did. Now every time I try to upload photos I get an error message telling me to try again later. This is just one of the many bugs/features in the new Wordpress (another being that I cannot figure out how to cross out text). The old version of Wordpress worked just fine; why the continual ...
Baby Yogini
I entered this in The Twinkies Photo Contest for fun. You can see some adorable kid pictures there.
I entered this in The Twinkies Photo Contest for fun. You can see some adorable kid pictures there.
This photo needs a caption. Any suggestions?
It's been a year!
Little M turns one year old tomorrow, so for this Wordless Wednesday I have included some photos spanning the year.
1. The earliest photo we have of her:
2. Our first meeting in Addis Ababa:
3. The most recent photo taken of her:
2. Our first meeting in Addis Ababa:
3. The most recent photo taken of her:
Stork at the Awassa Fish Market
Children in Abijata-Shalla National Park, Ethiopia
Many children beg, which is difficult to respond to. Sometimes they are very needy; others times they aren't but they know they can easily get money by approaching Westerners. Ethiopian adults try to discourage children from begging when they don't need to so often we'd be approached by a child only to have an adult chase him or her away before we could respond. I came up with a compromise by giving money to beggars if they were unable to work - if they were elderly or disabled-, and buying a lot of merchandise from street vendors. Many children and teenagers sell crafts to pay for school fees. Our living ...
Many children beg, which is difficult to respond to. Sometimes they are very needy; others times they aren't but they know they can easily get money by approaching Westerners. Ethiopian adults try to discourage children from begging when they don't need to so often we'd be approached by a child only to have an adult chase him or her away before we could respond. I came up with a compromise by giving money to beggars if they were unable to work - if they were elderly or disabled-, and buying a lot of merchandise from street vendors. Many children and teenagers sell crafts to pay for school fees. Our living ...