Fred came running in for the camera, yelling for me to hurry out an see the monkey. He was a very large monkey just sitting there on top the car parked across from our gate. He very patiently waited for his picture to be taken then did a few antics on the fence and other parked cars before he settled on a banana vendors cart and helped himself helped himself to little snack.

I had a hard time getting a good picture of this auto rickshaw hauling a big long box down the highway. It reminded me of times when I would try to haul a long board in my little car. This rickshaw was weaving in and out of traffic and was making it very difficult for me to snap a photo. We've seen them hauling newspapers, produce, equipment of all kinds, and furniture.
The mission office sent us a bed (double mattress and heavy wood bed frame) for our spare bedroom. A man riding a bicycle rickshaw hauled it all the way from the office about six miles away and over the most congested highway. I was impressed.

This is a newspaper stand, Indian style.

You have to get out early in the morning before all the men leave for work in order to get a shot like this.

This sweet little grandma was sitting out by here son's food stand. I couldn't resist getting a shot. Blow this picture up and take a look. I think she has only one tooth left in her head.

This girl is a sample of the beauty we see every day. I wish so much that I could practice my portrait painting here. This is an artist's paradise or in my case hell because I don't have the time or tools to work my hand at it.

You should be able to count six dogs in this picture. Most street dogs here look like this. They are yellow, black, or white with black spots. I think they have all been cut out of the same pattern. Rarely do we ever see puppies. I think they must be grown dogs when they are born. Several people have said that the puppies are gathered up, given shots, and then given away as house pets. It must be true because most of the house dogs that I have seen look just like the street dogs except bigger and fatter. Some people have different breeds though. One of our member ladies had a Saint Bernard puppy about four months old and it was already huge. She had a jacket on it when we went to visit at her home. The next week we got the sad news that her dog had died. No Duh!

This is what you call a dog pile. There were more dogs laying on the other side also.

Fred took this picture of a Sihk Holy Man. He looks so clean in his pure white clothing. Check out his golden slippers also.

The school kids are all studying like crazy this time of year. Every school is testing right now. Fred got a shot of this girl riding to school with her books open on her lap, cramming, cramming right up to the deadline.

Dinu, Dibit, and me as we share some fun times together. These girls are from Arunachal Pradesh, a Northeastern Indian state. Their father owns a rice plantation and their mother owns a road construction business and she also runs a school. I bought a sewing machine and I'm teaching them how to sew. They are so excited about making some frocks.

People feed the animals all the time. We've seen bird seed carefully put out on a ledge of a building and bread and other scraps being thrown out of windows but this was a first. People in the vehicle were reaching out of their windows and feeding this cow and they rolled slowly down the street. I just wasn't able to catch a good picture.