Monthly Archives: September 2011

On September 20, Zambians elected a new President in peaceful and apparently quite fair elections. Within three days Mr. Michael Sata was inaugerated as the new President with the incumbant President Rupiah Banda bowing out gracefully. This is twice in … Continue reading →

That’s my kind of farmer! Kurt Wanner was seeding phacelia, a green manure that blooms lavender purple, and asked his wife Monika for some sunflower seed. Now the field, about one hectare, is a purple haze dotted with golden flowers. … Continue reading →

“Is this for real, or am I in a calendar page?”   “Pinch yourself,” my aunt Olgi tells me.   It’s a picture perfect day in a picture perfect landscape. Clear blue skies, the low shrubbery turning an autumn red, … Continue reading →

     Something irritates me about this picture – I’m sure now it’s the colour. Everything is so green! The corn fields are dark green, the sugar beets a lush green, the regrowth on the pastures and hay fields – it’s … Continue reading →

   “They finally have some business again,” my father-in-law notes as we drive past a gas station just over the border in Germany. For years Germans have crossed the border to purchase their gas in Switzerland, where it was cheaper. … Continue reading →