Through my dormer window (at the back of this picture) i get to see the silhouette of the back part of devils peak mountain. As well as the strong ridge line of the mountains leading to muizenberg.It looks like the silhouette of a lady lying sown to me.
I also have the privilege of a rather large night spider that makes his web exactly every evening at 6:30 and is back under cover at dawn. i can set my watch on this not so little guy, 6, 31 and thirty seconds he revs up the ol web spinner machine. He sets up on the outside of the dormer window and provides me every evening with an incredibly skilled age old web design building display. (who says a web designer needs to be all tinkering computer keys.) A simply great inspiration. Im very glad he is on the outside of the window as he is rather a large chap and looks like a brown button spider. 4 indentations in his back. The kids have named him - spidey. Im told they dont live long or he might go set up elsewhere. I came across a big dude the size of my hand on my towel as i got out the bath. Different model to spidey. But flip did he give me a "skrik ekse". I coaght him in an ice cream container and let him go in the green belt. He was a minneer.
Other visitors that are often in my studio are the pray mantis.We seem to have a large monastery of these little and not so little creatures, as im forever putting them back outside my office. Its not the same one as i can tell by the eyes, no really its the colour - bright green and shades of brown.
Other visitors that are often in my studio are the pray mantis.We seem to have a large monastery of these little and not so little creatures, as im forever putting them back outside my office. Its not the same one as i can tell by the eyes, no really its the colour - bright green and shades of brown.
We also have leopard toads and many cats. Not my cats, they just visit me from the neighbourhood. The intense stare of a cat is something you dont forget easily. However its not quite the fearful yellow eyes of a wild male lion. Something ive looked into without a fence, or car and just 3m away. Ok so it was semi sedated. But i was definetly being observed. Ok so i did run my finger down its serated tongue, it cut me. The vet ranger said he would be out for awhile as they where administering medicine. He came around super early because as i found out later, he wasn't asleep, just momentarily drug induced paralyzed. So he was fully compus mentos to my biological studies. Well i realised raw fear is actually directly proportional to what you've just eaten. But that's another story completely.
