Today's my birthday! So in celebration I thought I'd share my photos from Kirstenbosch, because I share part of its name.
You start at the bottom of a hill, looking up...
There is art to enjoy (sorry, I didn't write down the artists' names and there is nothing online to tell me whose work this is! Help, anyone?)
You might see some guinea fowl and their chicks! Can you spot them?
And you can wander, through plantings, along pathways...
You can rest at Colonel Bird's Bath
and enjoy the cycad forest
but most of all, you are there for the trees and the plants.
Back in Boston, I also write a little blog at my day job - its about parties. So, for my birthday this year I had a fun mardi gras party and wrote about it on that blog. It was a blast!
9 comments:
Happy happy Bday
Happy Happy Birthday!
Kirstenbosch is just amazing!
Thanks Cat and Hayley! Its been a lovely day so far (and its only 9am!)
Happy Birthday - hope you have a wonderful day! (And it looks like you had a most excellent party!)
These are gorgeous pics… thanks for the virtual wander through what is also one of my favourite places on earth :)
I think the horned figures are by sculptor Dylan Thomas (I don't know who made the lovely band of gorillas tho').
THANKS Suzanne - I felt so bad not being able to say more about it. The figures were so beautiful and intriguing... and the apes were just great. Solid.
Happy birthday for yestrday ... hope you had a great day ....
The sculptor is Dylan Lewis... (Dylan Thomas was a gifted poet 'Under Milkwood' and all that) an interesting range of works from carefully observed animals to allegorical (?)humanoid figures ...full of energy!
Thank goodness for my more knowledgeable friends.. thanks D, for the name (and birthday wishes!). Those figures were fascinating, and under the trees was the perfect spot for them, I think.
So this is really late, but I came across this blog entry & saw you weren't sure of the Kirtenbosch artists. The gorillas are by Samuel Allerton: http://www.everard-read-capetown.co.za/?m=3&s=5&idkey=690
thank you, Ianer! Better late than never :)
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