Cactus Flower

This Sunday, July 19, marks four months of quarantines and lockdowns, travel restrictions and regulations that have kept us mostly at home, and hesitant to visit our interior Bible study students. Intermittent internet hasn't helped much with keeping in touch with our interior friends, but we are exchanging regular messages.   This week we decided to check out another nearby dirt path not too far from home.  Our county's regulations are opening up.  Sadly several of the county's on our old route are still closed. So Sunday afternoon we went off to find the petroglyphs or ancient wall drawings of São Gonçalo da Serra.   There are not a lot of signs!  You can't find it on Google Maps doesn't tell you everything. But for the persistent, there is success. We had to turn around a few times.  We had to stop and ask a few times.  We just had to keep moving along and hoping. Even after we found the entrance of this mountain pas...

15 weeks without dust in my hair... Yesterday we planned a trip to Lage with stops along the way to see our Bible study people, but alas while some places in our area are reopening, others are locking down.  The county (Campo Formoso) around the little town of Lage is in a strict lockdown  for the next few days.  In fact one of our former students who lives in the county seat is sick and awaiting confirmation of testing. Novertheless, I wanted to go somewhere.  15 weeks!  My wonderful husband, at my insistent bidding, agreed to take me out for an afternoon ride and picnic to a closer location in the next county over from ours with less corona restrictions due to fewer cases and a smaller  urban population.  We never go anywhere without a plan. So he checked his maps, and chose a route where he'd been hoping to do some survey work. Master Mechanic has been upgrading our ride over the past 15 weeks. We have a new motor with lo...