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I logged into my SquareSpace account a few days ago with the intention of adding Walking With the Muse to my Books page and realized something—the old website is in desperate need of tidying up. There’s

Throwing a round up north

Amid all of the bad weather warnings, one can still find spots of beauty. I took the photos of the sunset from our normal high spot, as one can see the horizon from there, and also the sea front. We received

On choosing to be grateful for what already IS, rather than complaining about what ISN'T.

Hello Hello Hivians I was out doing some business in one of our local towns up the coast called Leven, when I spotted this gate. Well to be honest I spotted the thistle shadow in the ground! Of course,

Rearing the Monarch Butterflies for the summer is over for this year. The last three chrysalis cracked open, and the butterflies emerged. This male was the last one to hatch. I woke up in the morning to

An early morning mountain view on our way out to a Papillon meeting. Problem 1. Lately the oil prices per barrel fluctuate wildly between high and low, as it is due to the USA-Iran war. It really hits

One of the things I learned as a child — out of necessity — was to be very VERY quiet!

Easy to get the blacksmiths into panic mode, just go near their nest. I know where they nest and I got them with their babies last spring season, and of course I posted it at the time. The one seemed convinced

Lately, I have been using Facebook more and it's a complete and total clown show!

Launch day is finally here! Walking with the Muse is out now—a collection of short stories more than thirty years in the making. Thank you for following along these last few weeks. Hive has been the incubator

I was zooming in on the Malachite Sunbird, when a noisy plane suddenly appeared. The bird flew away, and I decided to zoom in on the plane. Just as well as I did, as the pilot was doing stunts in the sky,

Sometimes, that's all you can do

When life seems chaotic and unsettled it becomes more important to have anchor points!

I just wrote a wonderful post. Well a fluffing wonderful post as far as I am concerned. It was my thought process of building a decision to either play a Fre...

We’re quickly approaching book-launch eve and those old-familiar butterflies are setting in. It’s been a pretty intense past few months of gathering stories together, working on the cover design concept,

It rained in the morning, and later on after it stopped, Robby popped in for a bath. In here you will see a Cape Robin-Chat (Cossypha caffra) bathing, and also a Pied Crow (Corvus albus) taking off from

Wrapping up the camping season

And not only that, as flowers (blooms) are also the sustenance of life. We saw that the yellow Protea Pincushions are also starting to bloom. Just goes to show how intelligent the sunbirds are, as they

More than an apple orchard!