seasons

The leaves are beginning to c hange here, and turn yellow. I think our last rain was around the 10th of October or something, and it is strange to think that we will be going for 8 months without rain! And also interesting to think about how at home the leaves are changing and turning colors and dropping, for the cold; and here it is for the lack of water. I like making that comarison between our winter and the dry season here, and it is nice because the weather seems to be getting a bit colder, and certainly changing. A short rundown of seasons here, thanks to Sarah Mays, a wonderful volunteer who taught some of our seasons and just finished up her agroforestry service here:

November
Dry and starting to cool off
December through February
Dry and cool, starting to move towards hot in March
March through May
HOT and dry, temperatures perhaps up to 140 degrees (c'est fou), thank goodness no humidity attached to that
June and July
Hot and a bit wet and rainy, cooling down a bit in July
August
rainy and cool (most likely the most wonderful month here, except for driving conditions)
September ( when we arrived)
rainy and cool, end of month starting to get hot
October
rains end and hot (small hot season)

Of course "cool" here means 60s i think.
It is bizare for us to be in October though, and still be so hot ( a few nights ago i had trouble sleeping because of the heat) still be sweating and drinking so much water, and be thinking about what its like in the states. We were all salivating over thoughts of pumpkin pie and most definitely apple cider, apple pies, apple everything. Its hard to imagine winter as well, and what a shock it will be in two years time (or before if we visit home) going from our weather here to December weather in the states, especially for our friends from Montana and New York, Minnesota and Michigan!