In the Shadow of the Baobab

The House Of Big Reds

In general, it seems that American wine drinkers have something against clarets or blended wines. That is one of the conclusions I can extract from the fact that so few blended wines are on retail shelves. It is as if they think that a Cabernet Sauvignon or a Merlot

Midweek Musical Muse II

Everybody’s favorite Glaswegian, with his Italian name, Scottish accent and Bob Dylan look and feel.

Maximum Retro

Is the innovation in car design dead? Or is retro simply something that designers have used throughout a century or more of car design.Some will say the last decade was a golden age of design. Audi and BMW from Europe and Cadillac from America produced truly sculptured cards. Others

Midweek Musical Muse I

Sonsondergang

Dis koud daarbuite-6 °C to be exactHier binne is dit warm en geselligzo houd den beken geniet die sonsondergang

'n Afrikaanse Sondag

Rainy Day At Tujagues by Alan Flattmann (giclee on paper)Nadat ek laat oggend die rekenaar aangeskakel het, iTunes opgestart het, amper onwillekeurig Afrikaans as die genre gekies het, en die dobbelwiel van die lukraak knoppie in my brein gestop het by Coenie De Villiers se ”As” en daarna by Jan

Haiti, Hades, And The Ridiculous Robertson

(Jorge Cruz / Associated Press / January 12, 2010)While most people are pouring out love, compassion and money, and offer services, and governments pledging support and sending rescue workers and other needed professionals and logistics, and others still stunned and gape as it plays of on the television screens

Stonewalled

In a previous post I wrote about Kentucky’s famous stonewalls. At the back of my property I also have an old stonewall, which run for a large part all around our subdivision. My portion, dividing the backyard from a community park, which was in a previous lifetime a farm,

The Proof Of The Pudding Is In The Eating

I don’t expect to find any surprises in liquor stores with drive-through windows.That’s why I prefer to buy wine in big city mega-stores. The little local suppliers around here cater mainly for the below average or mass produced well-known wines. I guess that’s to be expected if half the

Atlantic Sunrises

Every morning before sunrise, I would get up, make a cup of coffee while everyone was still sleeping and photograph the sunrise either from the balcony or from down at the beach. Christmas morning on a near empty beach.Blue sunrise. The morning's first rays creeping over the horizon, reflecting against bluish clouds