Kentucky in the middle of his moult Life on a farm or smallholding is certainly exciting and out-of-the-ordinary, to say the least. Th...

Here comes the rain   Falling on my head like a memory Falling on my head like a new emotion I want to walk in the open wind I want to...

... Planet Earth will not be able to exist longer than four years without them...

Most of us have been there, sitting in a park or on our porch, enjoying the beautiful summer day and a refreshing cold drink, when sudde...

P hoto by Joe Neely   Did you know that bees sleep between five and eight hours a day, sometimes in flowers? Also, they like to slee...

This is the effect my singing had on Snoodles, my pet hen! I was softly crooning to her (or so I thought!) and her response was opening h...

Hawk moth caterpillar in a pot of Arum Lilies, now stripped of their leaves - Pic taken in my daughter's garden in Ballito, KwaZulu N...

I'm really missing "my" Nature ... I'm missing my old garden and "my" birds and all the little mammals a...

The Hadeda is famous for being South Africa’s natural alarm clock. I'm sure everybody will agree with that. When we lived in Gauteng on...