Wedding Photo, 10 years on

Taken 5 August 2010, 10 years to the happy day of our wedding. Ruth is wearing her wedding dress; I am wearing a close approximation of what I wore (no bowtie then, though; the girls like me to wear it).

Random photos

I decided to put some older photos on the blog, to give folks a feel of our place. Enjoy.

One view of our area. Looks to me a little bit like The Shire in Tolkein's Lord of the Rings.

Some flowers in Mbabane early on a Sunday morning.

Another Mbabane early Sunday morning flower.

The Mbabane bus rank, our main transportation hub.

Scene of our area, when walking from town to the school. What a place!

Part of the Mbuluzi river near our school.

A homemade bridge over the Mbuluzi. It has since washed out.

Grandparents, close your eyes! Rudy taking a daughter (Grace, when she was just 1 year old, mid-2003) over the bridge.

Local flower.

Ruth with young Grace (mid-2003).

Another local flower; blossoms in winter.

Hiking between the school and town. More Lord of the Rings look and feel.

Sunday School trip etc.

Spider on the walk

Some Sunday School party attendees

The gang on the trail

On the way to church

Hoofin' it

Ease on down the road to church

The walk from town to the school

Kit and Jabulile

Kit and Jabulile 2

Part of the harvest from the church garden

Kit and a mealie

Cub reads to Kit

Jabulile in Bhembe-wear. Note the buttons for gloves on the sleeves.

Attention K-Mart shoppers! Look at the special in the basket in the candy aisle!

A shop employee who liked Jabulile.

Hillbilly hottub

The Sunday school hiking group before leaving the house.

Brittany Bickford a couple weeks before she left.

Girls just before bed.

Grace spends some time with Jabulile in Jabu's "crib"

Mother and child

The girls found the bird's nest; the grandparents shipped the Jelly Bellies.

Our kids are into watercolor body art.

Kit and Jabu.

The kids really do move around in their sleep, and strike some hilarious positions. Looks like slo-mo WWF.

Cub and Jabu movie.

How to Dress Like A Swazi

Reading time. This was not a staged photograph; the girls set this up and were reading on their own.

Some articles of traditional Swazi clothes for men.

Manafu hunters. Manafu is a gooey sap from wattle trees. Our girls eat it like candy.

Manafu.

Walking stick on our wall. See next photo for scale.

Walking stick.

Grace's Hillbilly barette.

Anastasia Jabulile Poglitsh b. 10 April 2010

The bunch of us, April 2010

Well-loved, by Kit (left) and Cub (holding Jabu)

Various shots

Kit and doll friends.Ruth's backyard garden.

Cub and peach harvest 2009.