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 […]

Guinea fowl family

Until this morning, I had only seen adult guinea fowl running around in our road. This morning when Rosie and I went for our walk, this is what we saw! There are about twenty adults in the “clan”, and a whole bunch of little ones. They weren’t keen to have their photos taken, so I […]

Photo day: Dewy Web

[Update: Read Who you gonna call? for a spider identification] On our morning walk, I came across an open field where there were dozens of these spider webs in the grass. I’m not sure what kind of spiders they are, but hopefully they’re the harmless, friendly kind! 🙂 Any South Africans who know what they […]

Photo Day: Beautiful Lilies

The people in our town are very proud of their gardens. Every year in Spring, there is a Garden Open Day. If you think your garden will make the grade, you can submit it to the committee for consideration to be included in the annual garden tour. On one Saturday (usually in September), you can […]