...it was perfect. We went early, just after 7, so it was not too hot, nor were there many people. The vegetation is beautful; not yet scorched by heat, drought and wind. Still spring green. At the far end there are waterlilies. They were just opening, the lush massed white petals glowing in cupped sepals, shell pink on the inside, pink-green on the outside. Long stems trailing below the suface. Bronze-green leaves curled against each other for lack of space to lie flat. Dark relective water.
I love Cape Town!
Recently my sister and I have been swimming in the dam at Silvermine, in the Table Mountain National Park.
The fynbos is beautiful. The leaves of the King Proteas are edged in carmine. We have seen Egyptian Geese with goslings and scaly agamas sunning themselves on rocks. This morning we saw a Cape Batis cupped in her exquisitely woven and camouflaged nest, almost invisible in a stand of slender trees. There are swathes of a delicate sedge with downy puffs of blue green flowers, and at one end of the dam, a large patch of waterlilies.
A few days ago I spent a few minutes doing an experiment with a milk bottle from my recycling box, then started on some more careful ones...
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