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I'm a thirty-something girl who wants to see at least a thousand more amazing things before I die. I live for travel, good books, and amazing conversations. I'm a sometimes belly-dancer, a perpetual junk merchant, and spiders like me a lot. I have fooled myself into thinking I have a green thumb in the garden, but I do at least take some amazing photographs of flowers if I do say so myself. I used to be a "goth" but I'm way too cheerful nowadays, not that it's a bad thing but it's sometimes hard to reconcile skull-collecting and liking Martha Stewart in the same lifetime. I started out wanting to be a mortician and here I am a preschool teacher. You just never know how you'll end up. Oh yeah, and one of these days I'll retire in a little villa in Italy or France with Jeff and a couple of cats.

Monday, July 10, 2006

A Picnic With Kites and Bones

Saturday, September, 3, 2005


We held on tightly to our sandwiches when we stopped to eat in the afternoon. The kites of Ngorongoro circled over our heads as we picniced by a tree on the shores of a lake.

They were bold brown hawk-like birds who feinted and dived at us as we ate.

"If you hold your food up in the air, your fingers are bound to get lacerated", warned Wayne. I kept my fingers down, although I left part of a banana on a nearby rock so I could get a better look at them.

We were in a beautiful spot. We sat on warm outcroppings of rocks and relaxed in the sunshine or the shade of the tree.

The brilliance of the afternoon light made the colours seems so bright here: the blue of the water, the green of the lake reeds, the dusky oranges and yellows of the plain. There was also the brilliant white of bleached bones here.

I wandered over to the bones which lay on the grass or by the water's edge here and there. I think bones are fascinating and marvellous to photograph. Several times on the plains on this trip I've seen the scattered white remains of animal skeletons. Once, from a distance, we spied a large group of bones with what was almost certainly the skull of an elephant among them. They were scattered over a wide area though and a group of antelope cropped the grass growing amongst them.





4 Comments:

Blogger GrĂ¼ndel said...

You have such amazing pictures of your travels!! I'm very jealous lol.

6:52 PM  
Blogger Tai said...

Ah...glad to see you're still adding to the travel journal!

3:41 PM  
Blogger Crystal said...

It's so surreal to read this and see these pictures, because I ate in that same exact spot while on safari in Ngorongoro Crater! ;-)

7:10 AM  
Blogger Phil said...

fantastic pictures. I really need to get out more

7:52 PM  

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