Rainy Season, Welcome

Our end of the island had been very brown since the dry season started in March. It happened gradually until all of the sudden you realized that many of the trees are leafless and the grass is all brown. Some of the dry trees started blooming in May, which signals that the wet season is coming.

This is a cotton tree. Before the hurricane of 1963, cotton was a major crop. We have only seen a few of them around the island. Brother Jasper told us that after slavery was abolished, the people cut them all down because they hated them so much.

This is a mango tree in bloom. Mango trees are all over the island. There are several varieties. We made mango mousse for dinner Sunday for the missionaries. Sister Robison had made it for us when we were in Trinidad.


We love watching this herd of sheep that hang out up and down this road that connects to the highway. We have seen them across the highway. Usually, sheep and goats, or at least a few of them, are tethered so they don't wander. Notice the dry grass they are eating. In a couple of weeks, the grass will be a beautiful green.

Note the cool bird in the grass.

Sure enough, June 1 we had a massive down pour. It has rained fairly regularly since. Last Saturday was the big football game between Trinidad and Tobago and Costa Rica played in the Dwight Yorke Stadium. Yorke was one of the players so it was fun to watch part of it on TV. As we watched the game, it started pouring at the stadium and all the players were soaked and sliding on the grass. It didn’t rain a drop at our apartment! You would think that if it rained one place on this small island it would rain all over it. Not so. We went to Roxborough to visit the Dookran’s, who live near the rain forest, on Friday and noticed that it was looking brown as well and they hadn’t had as much rain as we have since June 1.

It has been fun to notice the grass greening up and the trees looking much better since it has started raining more regularly. The rain was a good excuse for some of our members to stay home on Sunday. It is common during the rainy season. The down side for us has been the increased humidity.