diggers

Hout Bay beach. By the time Timur finished digging, his lips were purple, bordering on blue. It was very sunny and sun was strong, but water was cold. We saw a seal swimming inside the herbour

the only gap

when we went up the Table Mountain on the 2nd of January, "tablecloth", the cloud that often covers the top of it, was "on" - apparently uncharacteristically for this time of year (summer).

there were practically no gaps in clouds when we were going up (we could see Cape Town when we started walking, but soon entered the tablecloth). There was one gap in the clouds when we were at the top, and everybody started taking pictures - of, as you can see, some generic bit of ocean with two white boats on it

Acrophobic entry

"I'm not afraid of heights, I'm afraid of depths. I'm not afraid of going up, I'm afraid of coming down"

dunno who said it but they are absolutely right

at wikipedia

llandudno beach

I love those stones.
Seems very odd that this place shares a name with llandudno in wales

Hattifatteners

cormorants really

flowering crassula

unfortunately, on the day we went to the Cape of Good Hope it was gloomy and even rained. But there was a lot to be seen and photographed

Cape of Good Hope

on wikipedia

vineyards in South Arfica

at lori.ru

Lion's Head, as seen from Signal hill

in wikipedia

panic, panic, panic

two more pics (closer up) of those birds are here

winter apples

don't know how, but this tree is still holding on to the apples

same pic on stockexpert

foggy field

horizontal frame at stockexpert

shadows on passing clouds

african grasses

grasses at shutterstock

altocumulus lenticularis

Same cloud at shutterstock 

throwing snow

they are warming themselves up by throwing the packed snow into the river

and that's how the bridge looked before we put out footprints all over it and took all the snow off

long shadows - Norway

boys on the shore of the frozen lake. They loved it. The biggest hit with them was trying to break the ice (still thin) by throwing stones. I don't think they managed to do it even once

upwards diagonal

when we only just started our walk around the lake, all those twigs were covered in snow. On our way back sun got to them already and they were bare again

went to Norway with boys over this w/e. We were vary lucky with the weather - it snowed the first day and was sunny on the second. Mist was hanging everywhere, in some places forming a blanket a few meters above whatever surface there was - lake, field, whatever

saw for the first time in my life something that is apparently called "fogbow" - a white bow, like a rainbow, but with no visible colors. It appeared while Francesco drove us through a valley filled by fog. Sun was behind us and to the left and there was this white arch in front to the right. Apart from not having color, it also appeared "closer" than a rainbow would be - I could "see" where the end of it were touching the field, maybe 30 meters away

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fogbow

halloween apparitions (two of them)