Monkeys are superior to men in this:

when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
-Malcolm de Chazal

Someone got too close to Larssen's mushroom patch

Grooming is serious f&*(!@ business, alright?

Ben in black and white.

Noddy tends to have an infant around most of the time.  He's a very nervous fellow. 

It starts to look easy after a while

The head really isn't the best place to rest for an infant, but it must be the most fun.

It's wedding season in Morocco.   Drums, drums, drums.

Ben chilling out

(quick note on previous post, as blogger won't let me add a caption for some reason:  the photo is of krissy, the one year old daughter of kerry.  there's been some sort of black grass pollen in part of the forest over the past couple months, and it was turning all the yungin's faces black when they walked through it. )

The first picture reminds me of someone, but I have no idea who...

Storms have been rolling through the mountains every afternoon lately.  Sometimes we get rain, sometimes just clouds and distant thunder.  Either way, it's a nice break after the heat of the day.

they've lost their winter coats, and some of them look kind of scrawny now.

except nick, of course.

b-movie bad guy.  he emerges from the shadows, revealing his hideously deformed face.  cue music and maniacal laughter.  the hero struggles to free himself.

one of the berbers in ain kalla has a new puppy.  it's adorable.  i really, really miss pets.