Hello from The Warm Heart Dusty Malawian August, overcast and chilly or fine and blustery.
Winter leaves in drifts and dry, brittle seed-heads.
The atmosphere is milky with the smoke of grass-fires and everything is coated with a fine layer of dust and floating ash particles. It s a time for making bricks, it seems. In the villages rows and rows of new mud-bricks are being turned out into the sun to dry. Children, mud smeared to the knees and elbows, mix the water into the earth beside the existing buildings. It seems your household garden area becomes brick-yard periodically.