Frosty Morning to you!!

These days I've been carpooling over to San Jose area (aka the South Bay) to work on the world's largest residential pv solar installation. 150 Kilowatts! That's huge, Huge! All on a copper, standing seam roof - about a million dollars to keep the ground below dry - and the 3,000 landscaping lights powered. This place is obscene in its ambitious opulence, but the carbon offset from this install won't change much overall, but every bit helps. We arrive to a very frosty job site, but it soon gets bearable. This picture shows the array about half done, not counting all the wiring - saving that for Monday... Everywhere the modules sit - their all frosty white - is on copper, with each one foot section from rain gutter to peak costing about $700 dollars. Must be nice to have money, A LOT of money...

Good Morning!!

Ruby says hello from the beach. We're having our weekend time a little more concentrated as Daddy's schedule has become a bit more complicated. Changes are affecting so many of us these days. I hope all changes in your lives come to a positive place, even if they look challenging at first!!

You Get What You Need...

I have many stories from my three week visit to Guinea. Some harrowing, others boring to endure in both the experience and in, perhaps, the telling.

These photos are from the village Oroko (or Woroko or Ourouko) I visited. My drum teacher Wadaba and his family call this place home. I am glad to finally see this place. It is an extreme place and the lifestyle here demands everything and in doing so, the interconnections between family and community become paramount.

To get there we had to cross the Niger River, which is very wide, yet very shallow.


Forgive some of the focus problems on this video: low lighting and smoke gave me a challenge, but I hope the fun and mystery of the village Fet, or celebration, is conveyed. The hosts were so generous, they even performed a mask dance, which is unheard of according to many who've ventured to haut Guinea in these modern times.