May 2020 Photo Hunt

Another strange month.  Fortunately we have had wonderful weather making it easy to be out in the garden. But I feel for those people who live in flats or houses with no garden.  We live near an A road and it has been wonderful having very little traffic.  Makes the air feel cleaner and fresher and the birdsong seems louder all around us. We usually have a criss cross pattern of contrails above us in the sky but now most days we have only seen one or two.  No wonder the air is cleaner and the sky a deeper blue.

I have drawn my pictures from my archives again as we have been at home now for 9 weeks. 

Circle

I have had this picture for years waiting for the right time to use it and at last I can.   I am not telling what the picture is, see if you can guess. 

Triangle

Many shapes can be found in nature and here is a good example.  With a bit of imagination the stripes on the shoulder of this zebra form a triangle.

and how about the giraffe's necks and legs, more triangles.

                                and here is a genuine triangle and a rectangle together in this sign.

Splat!! 

            Eldest grandson having wonderful fun in our bird bath in Kiepersol, South Africa in 2000. 

My Own Choice

Continuing with the theme of shapes I have another circle.  This was Ben our German Shepherd in South Africa.  He excelled at obedience and agility. Here he is framed by one of the agility hoops. 

Finally, the answer to my question, what is the subject of this photograph?

It happened completely by accident.  I was making a Chinese recipe and had to mix together oil and soy sauce and this is what happened before I mixed them together.  The liquid is in a stainless steel bowl.  Did you  guess it correctly?

Now off to see what everyone else has done this month.  Enjoy the good weather, long may it last.  Keep well and stay safe. 

March 2018 Photo Treasure Hunt

Can't believe it is the end of March already.  Been a grey, cold and often snowy month here in the UK so going through old photographs of the Kruger National Park and God's Window in the Panarama route in South Africa was a very pleasant way to pass the days.  Once again an interesting selection of topics from Hawthorn, looking forward to seeing other participants interpretation of the headings.  Check them out  Here

1.  Hole

There are potholes big and small blighting our British roads and then there are Burke's Luck Potholes, enormous holes formed in the sandstone by years and years of water erosion  where the Blyde River (River of Joy) and the Treur River (River of Sorrow) meet in Mpumulanga, South Africa.  You can get some idea of the size of the 'holes' when you look at the bridge and people at the top of the photograph.

2. Making.

I am at present knitting myself a cable fronted pullover.  I am going through a knitting phase, gone off crochet for a while.  What is it about green and photographs.  It is actually a pretty sage green, nothing like the photographs at all. Lovely Lady always complains about it on her other blog and now I see what she means.  Rug in background is a funny colour too. It is definitely not pink!

                               

3. Reading Now.

I'm not great about reading during the day, it is some sort of guilt feeling I have. So other than the daily newspaper which I read thoroughly and enter the Sunday Crossword competition, I do not have a novel on the go though I have several stacking up waiting to be read.  What I do read last thing at night  is from My Daily Bread and the readings that go with it. 

4  Black and White

I am sure you  have all stopped AT a zebra crossing but how many of you will have stopped FOR a zebra crossing!!!  Photographs again taken in our beloved Kruger National Park, Mpumulunga, South Africa.  No two zebra have the same markings, they are all individual, like fingerprints. 

5  It starts with an .........H

This is a Hornbill being mobbed by starlings at the Skukuza Camp Site again in the KNP.  This time it was taken on an all too brief stay there with Hawthorn and Himself  out visiting us from the UK.  You will see how colourful Southern African starlings are compared to our rather dull black spotted ones here in Europe.  The birds were all after the bread crumbs they were scavenging from around the tents.  There are very strict rules about feeding any of the wild animals in the park but somehow the birds in the campsites manage to get around that rule!!  

6.  My Own Choice.

This month my own choice is a sort of continuation from last month's sad tale about Audrey the Amarylis.  Well the second bud went on to grow and grow and produced not two, three or even four buds but five.  Hawthorn suggested the extra one was to make up for the previous disaster.

For those that did not read about poor Audrey the Amarylis,  the original bud just rotted away after a halfhearted attempt to open..  The picture below is a reminder.

Forgiven.