Some last thoughts from the weekend

I got up at 6 AM to watch the sunrise over the Rift Valley.  No one else was there, until Evan came about six thirty or so.  It made for some very interesting thoughts and pictures, which I thought I would share:

"Sitting at Robert's Rock at 6 AM looking over the Kerio Valley as the sun begins to rise, thinking about the first humans to go down into the Rift Valley, listening to the sounds of the valley as it awakens, the sound of someone working already, roosters crowing, cattle mooing, talking one to another, all the sounds of humans and their beasts, imagining the first humans overlooking the Rift, with elephants and giraffes making their way through the valley, through the forests, all gone now with the coming of humans, forests replaced by maize fields, houses, roads, the traces of humanity, all within the relative blink of an eye, a world transformed, all beginning right here, looking down into the valley of the great rift."