Gone To Smell the Roses

In Johannesburg, and most of South Africa, you can grow pretty much anything you want. And a lot of what we think of as houseplants are grow...

Hurray! I did manage to get a reservation for Kruger National Park . I didn't get exactly what I wanted but still pretty good: 13 nigh...

A nice quiet day today, which is especially nice since I have a pretty nasty cold. This morning I called a friend and my voice was so rough ...

I hate planning, especially for something far ahead. So in my typical fashion, but also because I just found out that I do have free time in...

Apparently all I do now is random photos!! This morning while drinking my tea this great Redbilled Woodhoopoe showed up. Unfortunately I c...

Grey louries are lovely birds, quite large (larger than a pigeon and smaller than a chicken). Apparently they are now officially called ...

For the cheetah lover, and you know who you are:

Now I am really going for random photos! I was with a friend in a trendy area not far from a fashionable club and as we were walking by a ...

I just bought those today. You don't often see the buffalo.

More examples of security hardware as you see it on top of walls around houses. The old and the new: the spikes and the electric lines. The...