This time of year, sunrise is around 6:00 am at Visitation Clinic. If you want to catch it, you need not set an alarm - the roosters will happily announce it. With the right amount of cloud cover, the rising sun can be beautiful and the dark Haitian landscape makes it all the more so. It can be a good time to try taking some low light pictures. Usually the solar power batteries have run out of juice during the night and there are no building lights to compete with the sky. On this day, thankfully, the cholera center was dark and empty too, with the last case being more than six weeks ago. So we were fortunate to get this nice photo of the arches at the entrance of Visitation Clinic silhouetted by the palm trees and tropical vegetation.
Then we noticed another remarkable event unfolding. People were already beginning to arrive at our gates. Even though the clinic wouldn't open for another two hours, patients were beginning to arrive by foot and motorcycle. In fact, though, this is a routine occurance. So much so that the local town has now installed a solar powered street light just outside our gate. We are, of course, most greatful. Undoubtedly, our early-bird patients are even more so.
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