The Walk to Work

These ditches were made about 40 years ago, during the British colonial era. I hate to think of the incredibly hard labor it took just to chisel out those stones.

The white stones were more recently placed. (The white paint came a few days ago. They were taxicab-orange before that.)

In the foreground, you can see a few exotic tropical flowers. It seems that flowers are on every plant. The flowers are on the grounds of The Tamarind, a Kenyan restaurant company that offices on that corner.The only thing that is unusual is that there are so few people in the shot; pedestrians are part of every road in Nairobi, whether they have a sidewalk or not. When there is no sidewalk, one usually gets carved out of the grass or undergrowth by thousands of feet walking to work or home.