December 23, 2007
BETECE
We're in the outskirts of Detroit, a town called Novi. It's another family Christmas with all the trimmings. We arrived with about 18" of snow in the streets and since then the rain has washed it all away. They say that the temperature has risen but the wind chill tells me otherwise. Winds have dried the wet ground and as the sun sets, delicate flurries of snow have appeared, whipping little zephyrs into tiny whirls of snow on the sidewalk. As Californians, we look at this sight with a mixture of wonder and relief that we are returning soon to (relatively) sunny California.
I'm shaking up a few blogposts, trying to respond to several overdue emails with lots of nephew and niece action running interference. They're so cute, the little buggers.
Today: a day in the DIA to see the Rivera murals and bumping into one wonderful surprise after the other, a blogpost about that to come soon of course. For now, a musical selection from something we found in the museum bookstore, Putumayo World Music's African-Latin Party, AFRICANDO - "BETECE".
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