Light My Fire

Flames reaching higher
Radiating light and heat
Primal excitement

Intentional movement

Today we celebrated the running girl with a hangi. A traditional Maori way of cooking food in the ground.  The food is assembled in a basket and the basket is placed over hot rocks in a hole in the ground.  The rocks have to be heated over a blazing fire.  That's the part the forester loves the best.  He and the son in law (my technical advisor ) constructed a pyre of timber with the rocks on the top and proceeded to set it alight.  In the extra is what it looked like at full blaze.  The food basket is covered with a wet sheet and wet sacks.  Then earth is shoveled over the top.  The wet sacks create steam with the heat of the rocks and the food cooks in about three hours.  It is very moist and tender.  The fire didn't set any vegetation alight and the smoke went straight up and didn't impact on the neighbours.  Here are more photos by      Megl  Hangi

I will catch up with everybody tomorrow.  Thanks you for the kind words on Rebecca's efforts with the marathon.  She was bright and bouncy today with no after effects.  I will also show you the aluminium print tomorrow because now it is a big too dark to take a good picture of it.