by 2summers | Feb 1, 2012 | Johannesburg, Melville and Surrounds
I went onto my deck this morning and found a curious insect resting on a green plastic chair. It appeared to be part beetle, part moth, part butterfly. Let’s call him a beetherfly. The beetherfly. His wings were round like a beetle’s. His body was flat...
by 2summers | Jan 6, 2012 | Emotions, Johannesburg, Melville and Surrounds
I shot some photos in the garden the other day. All were snapped within a 10-foot radius of each other, although I shot half while looking down and the other half while looking up. The ‘down’ shots were taken in the middle of the afternoon and the...
by 2summers | Dec 4, 2011 | Emotions, Johannesburg, Melville and Surrounds
As long as I’ve lived here, the view from the deck at the Lucky 5 Star has been a wall of green. It was one of my favorite things about the house — the back yard felt like a private jungle, filled with unruly indigenous plants and flowering creepers (the...
by 2summers | Nov 30, 2011 | Arts and Culture, Emotions, Hidden Joburg, Johannesburg, Tours
This post was supposed to be about a photowalk. Most of you know that I’m part of the Joburg Photowalkers; last Saturday we did a walk around St. John’s College, the oldest prep school in Jozi. It’s a beautiful campus — very Dead Poets Society....
by 2summers | Nov 15, 2011 | Emotions, Johannesburg, Parks/Nature Reserves
My life has never been so complicated. I can’t explain why right now; I wouldn’t know where to begin. But I can tell you the things I’m doing to make life feel simpler — writing, taking pictures, and walking in the park. I’ve extolled the...