@ThePiper

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Photography, art, travel, writing, poetry.
I love the creative process.

The photograph/avatar is of an ostrich looking directly at the camera. It is looking impish mainly because it had just tried to pull my wedding ring off my finger and failed. I got the feeling it wanted a second try.
https://lastfrog.co.za/

AgeI was born 3 score and 10 years ago I remember the sixties

While watching the sunset in the Cederberg Mountains a Cape Grey Mongoose came looking for a snack. He was served raw egg and finished the yolk only then disappeared into the bush again

#nature
#naturephotography
#naturelovers
#mongoose
#wildlife
#mammal

Victorian Fountain in the Company Gardens, Cape Town.

#streetphotography
#fountain
#photography
#garden

In the 1960's and 1970's was in Boy Scouts for over a decade, starting as a Cub and ending up as a Springbok Scout.
Every time I went to an event I would to my mother's horror swap scarves with a scout from another troop.
At the end of my scouting career I ended up with 35 scarves which with a lot of help from my, wife and a quilting expert I turned into a quilt.

#quilt #scouting
#quilting
#scoutssouthafrica
#scarves

Protea Cynaroides aka King Protea aka Giant Protea
The flower can grow as wide as 30 cm.

#protea
#proteacynaroides
#flower
#flowerphotography
#FlowersOfMastodon
#flowerfriday
#bloom
#bloomscrolling
#blooms
#fynbos

Starling breakfast
Red wing starlings arrive in the morning and demand breakfast.

#birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #birdscrolling #birdphotography

The Camdeboo Plains seen the edge of the Valley of Desolation.

#SilentSunday
#Karoo #arid #Camdeboo
#ValleyOfDesolation

I am very pleased with my Distant Drums rose this year!! This is my favorite of my roses but I'm always fighting for my life with sawfly wrecking it every year. They're still trying but I'm starting to win!

#Bloomscrolling

Tafelberg Road, Cape Town with Platteklip Kloof [Gorge] rising to the top of Table Mountain.
The kloof is the easiest, safest and most boring way to cl8mb the mountain. The route is a zig zag stepped path that rises and the higher you the less you can see as the kloof closes in on you.
On top Cape Town stretches out around you and you realise that the view is worth the boredom of the climb

#tablemountain #platteklip #tafebergroad
#capetown #hiking #mountain
#tablemountainnationalpark

A Jewel of the Microfauna
During my walk through Riddagshausen, my attention was drawn to some tiny wasps moving with great speed across some dry, fallen logs. As the sunlight struck them, their bodies gleamed intensely—like tiny flashes of color against the wood. Given their hyperactive behavior and dazzling iridescence, all signs point to these being specimens of the cuckoo wasp family (Chrysididae)—jewel-like insects that specifically utilize dead wood to seek out the nests of their hosts.
#NaturePhotography #Wasps #WildNature #Insect #Travel