Winter here in the southern hemisphere is the time when aloes begin to bloom. I just love the vibrant red and orange candlesticks that appear in various gardens and in the open places. Since many aloe

There are some wonderful dunes in between Fish Hoek and Noordhoek in Cape Town. My young niece and nephew are visiting from Joburg and they love running and playing here. I took some action shots of their

Few people know that in the sandstone mountains behind Kalk Bay and Muizenberg in Cape Town there are hundreds of hidden caves. Some of them are quite dangerous as they contain sudden drops. However, Boomslang

I decided I wanted to paint an entirely different animal than the usual suspects on this particular rock. I chose a cat-like animal, the large spotted genet or cape genet. This is a beautiful little animal

For the last few years I've been growing my hair. Here's a pic from October last year at a picnic near a stream, where you can see how long my ponytail was. But it being a new year and all I decided to

The rebellious token is a brand new token that, like the incredible community around Steem, is trying to build a true community around a new token known as Rebellious (REBL). The token team is currently

The Mountain Dahlia is one of my favorite wild flowers of the fynbos. Flowering at a time when most everything else is brown and dry, it's lovely orange blossoms hang delightfully off long stems, enticing

It is summer here in the southern hemisphere and reptiles are all getting more active. I've recently spotted quite a few very small Cape Dwarf Chameleons, obviously newly born. Cape Dwarf Chameleons are

It has been some time since I painted a stone or a rock. However, I found the perfect stone to act as a doorstop for my front door (something that is needed in windy Cape Town). I wanted to paint something

This amazing cat is surely one of the most beautiful. To celebrate WORLD CHEETAH DAY today, I'd like to show some photos taken a few years ago in the Kruger National Park when we were lucky enough to see

The fynbos vegetation of the western Cape of South Africa has a fire-driven ecology. This means that the plants have adapted to dealing with fire and many species of plants flower more abundantly after

Recently I spent a few days in the Breede River Valley of the Western Cape of South Africa and walked in some of the mountains of the region. I was thrilled to discover this beautiful flower which is Ixia

I photographed this beautiful Painted Lady flower (Gladiolus debilis) in the Silvermine area of the Table Mountain National Park. Isn't it beautiful. Endemic to the western Cape fynbos region. I love all

I absolutely loved these spiders when I was a child and would spend hours looking for them. We used to have a big yellow daisy bush in our front yard and it was always full of yellow flower crab spiders.

The angulate tortoise (Chersina angulata) is endemic to South Africa, but fairly common in the western Cape. I found a couple yesterday and decided to take a pic for @papa-pepper's photo combo competition:

I was on the beach the other day and there were several bluebottles that had washed up on the shore. I thought it would be a fun idea to enter @papa-pepper's combination photography contest with a marine

I have never seen such an abundance of orange Satyrium orchids Satyrium coriifolium. This must be a post-fire phenomenon, but isn't it beautiful. These photos were taken last Sunday on the top of Red Hill

I came across this bunch of hairy caterpillars this afternoon and thought it would be a great entry to @papa-pepper's combination photography contest that he's now regularly holding. They look good enough

It has been a long time since I completed a large-scale oil painting and recently I felt inspired again. I chose to paint an impressionist version of some of the most prominent flora and birds of the fynbos

Every year at around this time, the west coast of South Africa explodes into bloom in a spring flower display. It is absolutely spectacular. Here are a few pictures of our visits to the West Coast National