@withoutaleaf making cookies when a wild tricorn appears - attracted by cookie dough. @goflow42’s for lunch. Also cookies and ice cream.

The irrepressible T. Full of beans. Literally. Also cookies. Pics from our lunch @goflow42’s. It’s been too long. So great hanging out there.

What the heck was in my morning coffee?

The British army built forts for protection against small-arms fire called “blockhouses” for pretty obvious reasons. This one is protecting a railway bridge against attacks by boer rebels in their one-time Cape Colony. The reasons for the exodus of many Afrikaners from the province and the establishment of the ‘Boer’ republics are pretty distasteful. But as distasteful were the British machinations to seize those republics the moment the first whiff of gold carried from the Witwatersrand to the noses of the powers in Cape Town and Durban. ...

Geology pretty much stole the show. Crazy warped sandstone upthrusts in the early light. Millions of years and extraordinary pressures. And they’ll still be doing their thing when us meatbags are dust in the wind. Ok… so part of the nature of my insta for the time being is I only have telephoto lenses for this camera. And they’re all manual focus and I’m still getting used to everything so my ‘hit rate’ is not that great.

Road trippin’ in the trusty White Whale to Prince Albert for a wedding. Sun going down over the Karoo.

Tulip… Y u no open?

I did warn you…

@sad_ivan’s latest #mondaymonster for our @krakatoa_band page. I’ll post a few of these over the next few but you can continue to follow what will certainly evolve into a must-see series by following the band or Ivan’s @sadshirtshop page for even more savage merriment in this vale of tears.

This is Mr. Crumb’s sleepiest time of the day. And that’s saying something. Carrying the new-old camera around, but until I get my eye in, I’ll just keep posting cat pics.