Finally the garden is waking up! The first sign that winter was at an end, was the bright splashes of the Clivias, they looked stunning i...

Southern Masked Weaver (Ploceus velatus) building his nest in my garden Winter (and what a winter it has been! With snow, hail, floods ...

Winter is winter, I know, and why anything surprises me is a good question! But this year the seasons have been extremely peculiar. Unlike S...

I haven't seen a Chameleon in my garden for about 10 years now. In fact, I can't remember when last I even saw one in the wild.Two...

Mid-winter (July) in South Africa and the Aloes flower fiery-red against the white of frost. I've been dreading the frost, as some y...

It took a while for summer to admit to defeat, pummelling us with heat wave after heat wave even well into autumn and autumn was decidedl...

A leafy foliose lichen ( Xanthoparmelia substrigosa) on the trunk of my Acacia karroo tree After heavy rains we had in early April, ma...

I had an awesome visitor this morning, a Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala). We don't often see them, mostly just after a veld ...

This Striped Skink was enjoying the sun on the wall of my bathroom court-yard garden and she was heavily pregnant (pic taken last Octobe...

Now that we're over the worst of summer (and it really was the pits, with extreme heat-waves, temps in the 40℃'s and drought) and...