I so love our African photographs. They make me years for farway fields with animals still healthy in herds. Better not to go now. I have a feeling it is much changed and not for the better.
Oh I don’t know. Kenyans have been doing an awful lot of conservation work, though admittedly there have been encroachments by new highways and a railway through various parks. And yes the never ending poaching of rhino horn and ivory. But apart from national parks, quite a few private sanctuaries have arrived since our time, and some of them are vast.
I know, I know. I think I mentioned I was finishing up cataloguing the Kenya files. Those photos were taken 50 years ago… OMG. 🙂
Kwaheri sassa Memsahib. Wishing you well.
That’s a sobering thought when you can measure your past in half centuries. I know that sense of dismay 🙂
Dismay indeed. 🙂 It reminds me reaching 20 and thinking: wow, I can count in twenties… 😉
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Charming capture excellently titled – love your old Africa albums – do you have many? (as well as your photographic memory that Africa impressed upon you)
Been enjoying the Dynasties TV programmes recently; lions are such wonderful creatures, though the way males will kill the cubs if they aren’t their own always makes me sad. How lovely to have seen this family.
Tish Farrell 
I so love our African photographs. They make me years for farway fields with animals still healthy in herds. Better not to go now. I have a feeling it is much changed and not for the better.
Oh I don’t know. Kenyans have been doing an awful lot of conservation work, though admittedly there have been encroachments by new highways and a railway through various parks. And yes the never ending poaching of rhino horn and ivory. But apart from national parks, quite a few private sanctuaries have arrived since our time, and some of them are vast.
Oh, marvellous capture, Tish!
Moons kidogo or moons mingi? 😉
Adorable pic. Asante sana Tish.
Moons mingi 🙂
I know, I know. I think I mentioned I was finishing up cataloguing the Kenya files. Those photos were taken 50 years ago… OMG. 🙂
Kwaheri sassa Memsahib. Wishing you well.
That’s a sobering thought when you can measure your past in half centuries. I know that sense of dismay 🙂
Dismay indeed. 🙂 It reminds me reaching 20 and thinking: wow, I can count in twenties… 😉
🙂
Charming capture excellently titled – love your old Africa albums – do you have many? (as well as your photographic memory that Africa impressed upon you)
Hello Laura. Yes quite a few albums, though not all have been scanned.
Much to look forward to then Tish 🙂
I think there might be quite a few wildlife squares coming up shortly 🙂
It must be great to look back on your time there.
I’m still processing it – after 20+ years 🙂
That is a long time.
I can see how such an experience would be forever in your memory.
It certianly had a mind-altering effect (in a good way of course) 🙂
Close up encounters with wild animals can have a profound effect. I sometimes find animals I’ve met coming into my meditations.
That’s a very interesting observation. I think they can somehow claim our attention on many levels.
marvelous shot. My favorite subject without a doubt…
There may be a few more coming up 🙂
Oh these are so cute, and such a great #timesquare with so many time links. Wonderful 😊
Glad you liked this, Becky. I think they may have started a trend square-wise.
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Beautiful creatures!
At the risk of repeating myself, fabulous, Tish! 🙂 🙂
No probs with repetition of that kind 🙂 🙂
Been enjoying the Dynasties TV programmes recently; lions are such wonderful creatures, though the way males will kill the cubs if they aren’t their own always makes me sad. How lovely to have seen this family.
I do actually wonder if I was really there though 🙂
They look adorable, Tish.. I hope one day I can return to Maasai Mara. I miss Africa..
Babies, no matter what the species, are adorable. 😀
I think you’re right – I even quite like baby snails and that’s a big thing for a mollusc persecuted gardener 🙂
Baby snails are not to be blamed for the predation of their progenitors. 😀
Ha!