After coming back from celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi at a friend’s house on Monday: LOTS of food, and lots of colored powder being thrown around and smeared on everybody’s faces. We missed most of the giant color fight going on outside our hosts’ house, but on the walk home we saw plenty of people who were stained purple, pink, or green from head to toe. The streets are still splashed with color from the craziness.

Dal, spices, chili peppers, and fruit sitting on our kitchen counter.

Filling up our water drum for the day. This photo is actually a few months old– these days it’s gotten too hot to wear a shawl, even in the morning!

Notice the two men at the very top of the photo, changing out the billboard: no ropes, no harnesses… and this photo wasn’t even taken from ground level.

Sunset over the slum. The small black dots in the sky are kites.