New beginnings

Ever since we have lived in this town, we have driven or walked past four huge pine trees on a daily basis. One day during a walk with the dog, I decided to take a photograph. Which proved to be a good thing, because shortly after the photo was taken they were cut down. Those […]

A walk on the dark side

This past weekend Riekie and I (see previous post here) decided to head into the small city of George to look at the Christmas lights. Yes I know, Christmas was almost three weeks ago, and the lights had been switched on sometime in mid-December – but I kept procrastinating. I had driven through town at […]

They’re back . . . a mystery solved

Have you voted for Caption This #8 yet? If not please go here. It’s easy, and fun – and FREE! Okay, I realize that this is probably not going to be a big deal to most of you, but maybe a few of the bird lovers out there will find my news interesting. Last year […]

Clouded Marbles’ version of events

Riekie (AKA Clouded Marbles) has written her version of the photo walks we did together. They are her Any excuse to visit a friend series of posts. You really should take a look. She says such nice things about the town I live in, Lucy and Rosie, and ME! Seriously though, you’ll get an outsider’s […]

A walk in the woods

For our final photo walk, Riekie and I (see previous posts here and here) and Rosie (the dog) went for a walk through a nearby forestry plantation. The day had started off pretty dismal – cold and raining – but it cleared around 9 a.m. and we were then able to go out. Our walk […]

Folks, I really tried

A while back I wrote about the guinea fowl clan we have in our neighbourhood, and how they had little ones running around with them. Since then I have been trying to get some better photos of the adults and the young chicks. I’ve been behaving like a complete lunatic for the past couple of […]

An African Christmas tree

On our morning walk the other day, I noticed this rather sad looking palm tree in front of our local gym. I normally don’t look up at the tree, but this morning there was a lot of noise coming from it. A colony of weaver birds has strung their nests from the fronds like ornaments […]