Loading ...a Wodaabe watering hole
Thirst-Quenching Salutations!
There’s nothing like taking a good long drink of water on a hot muggy day. At this newest gallery, you can pay a visit to a watering hole and imagine being thoroughly refreshed. And maybe be amazed by the sights, too:
https://balloonbill.smugmug.com/Other/Watering-Hole
Wishing you plenty of deep & satisfying life-giving drinks!
GoldBalloon
Well done.
Now that its winter in most northern parts, its good to see you NOT freezing your butt off on one of these trips for a change.
Nice to see a broader range of the locals this time too.
You speak French. Did they also? I have no sense as to how far its range is in west Africa, beyond Cote d’Ivoire.
Speaking of which, I hope they get their rains …. for them and for me as a darkchocoholic.
Hold on there, poncho- there’s no need to confuse your actually freezing your ass off just by looking at pictures of toasty-warm me in the depths of a Siberian winter, with me being totally happy. It’s so much easier for me to be warm in wicked cold temps than it is for anyone to be cool while outside when the temps are cookin’ hot. Ya just can’t do it. The bottom line is heat is much more difficult to deal with than cold, regardless of the fact that most people cannot bring themselves to believe this is indeed true. But then again, most people are just plain crazy 😉
Actually, my French is very limited. French is widely spoken in Chad, but I never spoke in French while there. You might have seen the fairly recent news of the French military having been booted from Chad (https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20241220-chad-orders-french-troops-to-leave-within-six-weeks-as-relations-sour)
BTW, isn’t everybody a chocoholic??? I thought it was a normal part of the human condition…
“It’s so much easier for me to be warm in wicked cold temps than it is for anyone to be cool while outside when the temps are cookin’ hot. Ya just can’t do it. The bottom line is heat is much more difficult to deal with than cold,”
People differ.
I’m unquestionably in the other camp. Shockingly so, even to me.
My extremities (fingers and toes) start to complain below 75F (24C).
I didn’t use to be like this.
50F here this AM in south Florida, and I saw a neighbor walking down the middle of our street in shorts and barefoot. (I didn’t smell his breathe)
Me …. wearing clothes more suitable for life in Canuckstan. INDOORS even.
You’re missing my point. I didn’t say I think anyone should be able to generate enough internal warmth. There’s no secret to this, only common sense (and maybe putting away unreasonable biases that restrict personal growth).
All it takes to be comfortably warm in the cold is suitable clothing and, if it’s below one’s own comfort zone, use of additional technologies. For instance, in Siberia and other cold places, I not only have good clothing, but I also use electric glove liners and electric boot heaters to stay toasty.
A funny thing is that I’ve found I have to be more careful about not getting too hot in the coldest of conditions. When it was -42° in Tiksi, I had to open up my coat! And I wasn’t even wearing all of my clothing. The problem with getting too hot is sweating, which is potentially a deadly issue if the heat runs out.
NO MORE EXCUSES!
So Many Donkeys
And they are all Trim and Fit as are thier Masters
I’m putting Mojo on a Diet …me too…we are getting Fat and Lazy up here in te Frozen Tundra
FGC- of course, those donkeys were just for you!
Instead of going on a diet, you might just want to make an extended visit to Chad and hang out with the Wodaabe for a while, doing what they do.
Probably some sort of camera shutter flaw but,
In the photo with the caption ” An Unusually Beautiful Scene” a girl holds a wooden (club?) slung over her shoulder.
Behind the club, apparently attached to it, or suspended in the air is something black, looks like it could be a scarf?
Yet the extremities of the scarf appear to be behind branches many meters behind the girl. An impossible visual effect.
All interesting photos. It seems wild beasts are not an issue for the locals or their animals. I imagine they are extinct in “settled” areas.
Thanks for sharing.
That’s an ax over her shoulder (I just added that in the caption to the photo). The metal blade is what you see on the down side of the handle, not a scarf. I have no idea what you’re seeing in the branches behind her, because I don’t see anything there. I guess either you might want to lower your dosage of mushrooms, or I need to increase mine 😉
I don’t know anything about wild animals in this area.
You’re welcome!
Ah. Thanks for clearing that up. It’s not a “twin bladed axe” then. The top part is actually a tree trunk in behind that lines up perfectly to give the illusion of being part of a “twin bladed axe” or something.
This isn’t the seventies, and I haven’t eaten any mushrooms. Blame it on failing eyesight, or just maybe it is a flashback. Canna say fer sure. Heh, heh.