Motherhood

"For animals great and small, it's often up to mom to teach them how to survive and use their instincts wisely". JULI BERWALD

Augrabies National Park, South Africa

 

The magnificent view from Gorge Cottage at Augrabies National Park. A massive dust storm coloured the sky and the surrounds orange, making for a very dramatic landscape 

Secrets to the wind

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, 

you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Khalil Gibran

Glare

Spotted

It is not often that you make eye contact with a top predator! I guess I have had my once in a lifetime "leopard sighting”

Egyptian Goose Photo by Andre Liebenberg — National Geographic Your Shot

Egyptian Goose Photo by Andre Liebenberg — National Geographic Your Shot:



This Egyptian Goose seemed totally relaxed in a dam which was absolutely littered with crocodiles. Maybe the cooler weather caused the crocodiles to be less active and less threatening

Treron calvus (African green-pigeon, Green pigeon)

Solitary Nyala Bull

The "Koeksusters"

The Koeksisterz consist of three artists and one accompanist. They sing from Cabaret, Musicals to Opera, they are naughty but extremely sweet & nice.

Nature does not knock

How strange that Nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! ~Emily Dickinson, letter to Mrs. J.S. Cooper, 1880

Highlands Giants, South Africa

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. John Burroughs

Lion feeding on a buffalo Kill

Blue Wildebeest

Elephant Bull, Kruger National Park

Took these a few years back and thought I had lost the original raw images. So glad i found them again. Loved editing them