First picnic of the year

The rain stopped, the sun shone, and after our usual capers around the neighborhood we had our first picnic of 2015 at the table on the ground floor of the building where I live. Spaghetti Alfredo with salad al fresco. Not bad for mid-April. 

Terrible news from South Africa, where xenophobia has reached a peak of madness and mobs are attacking Ugandans, Tanzanians, and Zimbabweans, blaming them for scarce jobs and hard times.