Snow in Southern Africa – for real this time!

Last December (when it was mid-summer here in the southern hemisphere), I wrote a post called It’s snowing in Africa. It wasn’t of course – it was just WordPress who created a snowing effect on our blog screens. I loved it so much, that I got a little carried away photo-shopping my header image (of […]

Evening clouds

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Nature never got the memo that it’s Autumn down South

While everybody in the Northern Hemisphere is noticing the early signs of Spring, here in the Southern Hemisphere, I am trying hard to recognize any signs of Autumn being here. Although the calendar says it is now officially Autumn, Nature never got the memo. Though maybe after the long drought we had, Nature is making […]

Shift in Earth’s axis has little effect, experts say

Since Friday I have been watching events in Japan unfold with great sadness for the Japanese people. Devastation and loss of life on that scale is absolutely heartbreaking. And scary – and not just for the Japanese people. As has been reported in the media, the earthquake has not only shifted the main island of […]

An excellent start to 2011

At the beginning of November 2010, I wrote a post about how the climate in our area had changed, and the fact that we were experiencing the worst drought in many years. Just how many was a little confusing. The local newspaper said it was around 60 years; the municipal records said that the last […]

Is it snowing in the Kalahari?

Is it snowing in the Kalahari? No, it isn’t. As far as I’m aware it never has. Frost maybe, in mid-winter, but no snow. Definitely no snow now in the African summer. I sometimes look at what searches people have done to find my blog. I’m not the most prolific “tag-ger” out there, so I’m […]

It’s snowing in Africa!!!

December 1 and it’s snowing in Africa!!! Actually it’s snowing in the Kalahari specifically (see my header). Well, on my WordPress blog it is anyway.