Family and Friends
This
week your mother flew east to Philadelphia to visit two more
granddaughters, and I flew north to Tobago to visit missionaries and
members.
Last
June, when we arrived in Trinidad, it rained everyday and everything was
green and tropical. The next week we visited Guyana and Suriname and
both countries were flooded. Obviously, we had arrived in the rainy
season. It continued to rain, but not as much for the next eight months,
until the end of February and then nothing. No more rain, just
sunshine. The Dry season had arrived .
In
Utah, the leaves change color in the fall because of the longer and
colder nights, but in the Caribbean the leaves don't change color, they
just dry up, turn brown and fall off. This doesn't happen in September
and October like in Utah, but in March and April. The temperature
doesn't get colder here either. It is 85 degrees everyday, year round.
The
mountains in Trinidad have been brown for the past two months since the
trees lost their leaves do to the drought , except for the palm trees.
Last week we noticed that the mountains were turning bright yellow. Our
neighbors told us that this is the sign that the rains are coming! The
tree is called the Poui Tree which produces not a yellow leaf but
thousands of yellow flowers at the end of the dry season.
When
we talked with some students, they told us that it also indicates that
it is time to take their final examinations. "When the Poui blossoms
appear, exams are near" And now you know the rest of the story!
Enjoy the pictures of the yellow flowers of the Pouli Trees in the Caribbean.
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