Author: eklastic
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I’m a Fan of the Gingko
This Gingko in the Weinheimer Schlosspark is 180 years old and over 23 metres high (the sign says 20 metres but the sign itself is about 20 years old and the gingko hasn’t stopped growing).
Before the Leaves Fall
It’s all about the light and the colours in autumn.
Green and grey and hazy.
Orange and yellow and clear.
Brown and red and dusky.
Green and yellow and bright.
And the final photo from yesterday – taken from a car driving on the autobahn (I wasn’t the one on the steering wheel, of course).
Who’s Watching Whom?
In the Kruger National Park there is no hiking – the humans sit in a metal cages rolling past the animals. Even if walking was allowed the distances would make it very difficult to get around. The park itself is almost 20.000 km2 in size (that’s without the adjoining private areas the parts in Mozambique and Zimbabwe with which it forms the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park). That’s about the size of the state of Israel and half the size of Switzerland.
This giraffe was very obliging, ducking its head to fit in the frame.
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[Disclaimer: The photos have been photographed from prints.]
What Would Carl Sagan say?
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
Macro Monday
Whatcha lookin’ at?
Monday Portrait
Ndedema Gorge
Another hike in the Drakensberg was to the Ndedema Gorge. No need to carry a tent because camp is made under the same overhanging rocks where others have sought shelter in the past.
We didn’t leave anything behind unlike some of the people who have spent their nights in this location before us. The rock paintings are said to be several hundred or possibly thousand years old
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One Rock? One?!
Debbie’s One Word Sunday prompt is rock. I couldn’t stop at one.
And don’t think these are just close-up of pebbles. To put it in perspective here are a few people.;
When the weather is good and the rocks are dry and non-slippery, the Felsenmeer near Reichenbach im Odenwald is teeming with families clambering up the 1,200 m sea of rocks.
Less athletic types can walk on a winding road between the different sections. Btw: This path also contains access points for ambulance and rescue vehicles. Needed regularly, I’m told.
But that doesn’t seem to deter the masses.
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