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blues

feelings of melancholy,
sadness, or depression.
 
 
 
 
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For six weeks in the autumn of 2016…

…we watched and counted the days as Taji moped her way

around her temporary enlosure.

 

 

The number of times I saw her stretch up the fence

had me wondering if she would tear open her

belly stitches and the clock would need to be reset.

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glow

a steady radiance of light or heat.
 
 
 
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Our guide soon had our dinner cooking on glowing coals.

See pot on front right.

 

Finally, there is a glow on the horizon

just before the sun rises.

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offering

a thing offered, especially as a gift or contribution.
 
 
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Back in the 50s and 60s invitation to comunity

events nearly always were tagged with

Ladies bring a Plate. 

What was not said or implied was that the plate

would be better if it contained something edible.

As a result of this practice no single family would

be required to supply supper for everyone.

It was a shared responsibility, and

I don’t know why the habit was stopped.

If you are wondering where my plates came from, they

are part of High Tea at Dubai’s

Burj Al Arab 

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unknown

not known or familiar.
 
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Our visits to Africa have been the most interesting

trips we have been on.

 

Botswana provided us with sandy tracks,

part of the Kalahari Desert,

through…

…to flooded creek beds

of the Okavango Delta.

 

Our twice daily game drives at

Sausage Tree Safari Camp

which is part of

Greater Kruger National Park… 

…also provided countless

never seen before tracks…

 

…and dry creek bed crossings to negotiate.

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fire

a process in which substances combine chemically with oxygen from the air
and typically give out bright light, heat, and smoke; 
combustion or burning.
 
 
discharge a gun or other weapon in order to propel (a bullet or projectile).
 
 
 
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A reenactment of

Firing The First Shot of

World War 1,

100 years after the event, at

Point Nepean National Park,

Portsea, 5th August 2014.

 

The gun from which the First Shot was fired.

 

Nearly ten years ago there was an arsonist… 

…setting fire to local churches…

…this church was one of his victims…

 

Although still intact this cross was severely singed.

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people

human beings in general or considered collectively.
 
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Rome’s Trevi Fountain proved…

 

…a good spot…

…for people shots.

 

By the time we reached Paris we had learned

that our priority entry did not mean that we

were the only company, or coach,

at the attraction. …

However, after we had been shown around

both inside, and outside, the Palace…

 

…we discovered that there was susbtantially more coaches waiting than when we arrived. 

Late commer’s were queing for two to three hundred metres waiting for their chance to enter Versailles Palace.

  It was moments like these that made me forever grateful for our priority/early entrance.

 
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silhouette

cast or show (someone or something) as a dark shape
and outline against a brighter background.
 
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Boats on Corio Bay

 

Tree Silhouette 

 

Tree Silhouette at sunrise

 

A cargo ship preparing to dock at North Geelong

 

One of our Flax flowers in silhouette.

Sunset from our back verandah.

 

Sundown over Namibia

from the

Chobe River,

Botswana

Sunset over Geelong from Eastern Beach

 

Rural Sunset

 

Rural Sunset

My favourite sunset photo.

 

Summer sunset

 

South African Sunset

 

Sunset over a field of wheat.

 

Sunset.

 
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motion

the action or process of moving
 
or being moved.
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When I saw this week’s theme,

I immediately thought

of these images.

Our accommodation was the

Kempton Park Game Lodge

in South Africa’s provincial capital

Johannesburg.

 


It was late afternoon and these

Blesbok or Blesbuck

antelope were enjoying

stretching their legs as many

animals do at this hour.

 

Two impala…

…in motion.

 

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I have left the number on the next and final 6 photos…

 

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…to try and add some idea of the speed…

 

 

 

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…at which the Impala were moving…

 

 

 

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On several occasions my camera had to…

 

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…take a breath while it processed the images…

 

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…this was also the main reason why I averaged

800 photos per day during that trip.

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monkey business

silly, mischievous, or deceitful conduct
 

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This thing stole an apple from MGW’s hand bag,

immediately after breakfast.

What a way to be welcomed

to 

Botswana

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strength

 the quality or state of being physically strong.

If I have read properly the Elephant

is the strongest.

A 3.6 tonne rhino is no match for an

angry 7.0 tonne male elephant.

However, it is the very territorial hippo that

is smost dangerous to humans.

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