Soul Food: Strange Cloud in the Ghanaian Sky

I'm all for celestial bodies...that..erm...don't come down and hold us captive and all that. I took this picture of the sky from the office.


Indeed, quite beautiful, but strange...

A beautiful cloud no less?

Incidentally, I cannot promise to be "back" as such...as real life is happening very much with regard to finishing the year in a bang. So, bear with me. This blog has not been abandoned at all.

Thanks for your interest and understanding!

Forget the Accra Road Signs...

...at Ridge.

Just check out that heavy sky!

Soul Food: A Beautiful Tree

As part of my soul food series on this blog, I thought it would be great to use this picture, as I am a sucker for nature.

I took this picture just outside the office. I am ashamed to say I do not even know the name. I love how it continues to grow--rain, heat, extreme heat, or cats-and-dogs rain. It's so relaxing and awesome to see it in its majestic bloom...

Soul Food: Ball in the Accra Sky

I couldn't help snapping this picture as I walked home yesterday evening. Forgive the fuziness of the picture, and simply enjoy what looks like a ball in the sky, but is really the sun setting.

I can only surmise that is the East of Accra!

Soul Food: Akosombo Dreaming!

This picture of serenity is not without a context: my "disappearance" from this blog has a lot to do with having very little time to access a computer to upload pictures. Although I hinted at it before I left last week, I was not as explicit in stating that a combination of heightened tensions surrounding Ghana's elections (more because of anxiety for all the ads to be over, and many discussions on Facebook over the outcome!) and a needed desire to wrap things up for the year--coupled with our regular annual retreat from Accra have all contributed to the absence.

Akosombo is no stranger to this blog; last time we were there was in January 2006. The next couple of days, I'll be bringing fresher pictures of Akosombo, located in the Eastern region of Ghana. In the meantime, I appreciate your indulgence of the absence. Am back with a bang before Christmas! Will be doing my lap of honours soon--not without a Friday 5 December break, which will be a celebration of Ghana's Farmer's Day and Monday 8 December that will be a local public holiday!

Thank you!

Soul Food: Evening sets in Accra

In a far departure from my usual postings, I am posting a series of scenic pictures of Accra that I say "feed the soul". I appreciate quite a number of people remain agnostic or atheist in the face of tremendous miracles that surround us. With the upcoming election in just under the three weeks, the miracle of a violence-free election resides in appreciating that at the end of the febrile activity associated with campaigning, there will needs be a new day...

For that, I cannot but be thankful and celebrate this by stepping back from the chaos to see the bigger picture of being an ant in this 6-billion plus universe against the garagantuan elements that surround us...

Soul Food: A New Dawn for the World?

Out of the blue, on the afternoon of Tuesday 4 November, around 3.15pm, the Accra skies opened and rain poured down. Curiously, the rain was set against a backdrop of a still-glowing sun. There was no rainbow I could see. But to me...


...it was emblematic and symptomatic of what I could only describe as a new dawn for the world. I was more than convinced when I captured this beautiful risinig sun, around 6.15am, on the morning of Wednesday 5 November, some few hours after hearing that we can officially call Obama the 44th President of the United States!

Soul Food: Fire in the Accra Sky?

Hardly!

Just an evening picture of the sun setting, and coinciding with a tro-tro passing just underneath what looks like the setting sun!

Soul Food: 20,000 Acres of (Accra) Sky

For all mankind's achievements, the self-inflicted sufferings and corruption and tremendous sorrow, I cannot help but think -- and not necessarily because I was brought up so -- that each time I look up at the huge sky above me, Someone bigger is looking back saying it shall be okay -- everywhere.

And not just because it's September 11th.

Beautiful Sunset on Tetteh-Quarshie Interchange

This is what I call "soul-food"!

Happy weekend!