In the rainless months it is the oat grass that gives the Mara plains their golden hue. The small trees with their sculpted looks are desert dates, mulului trees, much browsed by all the local herbivores.
These photos from the Farrells’ old Africa album were taken outside the main Maasai Mara National Park, below the Oloololo Escarpment on territory owned by related Maasai families, locally referred to as a group ranch. Visitors pay a daily fee to group ranch elders. We were lucky to be able to make three trips there while living in Kenya.
Tish Farrell 
Thank you for the good post 😊🌍
Thank you back 🙂
You are welcome!
One day I will go to the Mara and tell everyone I meet, Tish sent me
Aw. That sounds like a story in the making. You must go though. Truly you must.
Mighty close to those big cats, ma’am.
Beautiful photos.
They don’t seem react to vehicles if the human occupants stay within the truck’s visual frame. But even so, yes, Thom, a bit close.
I have been delighted to watch the Serengeti programme on TV at the moment, Africa is so beautiful and its wildlife is under such stressful times, not to mention from each other!
Must look out for that prog. Thanks for the alert, Jude.
Fabulous African vistas, Tish! I especially love your first, third, and fifth images. Just wonderful wide open plains!
Many thanks, Patti.
wonderful wide shots
Thanks, Yvette.
Love that first shot, Tish! Still busy with your harvest?
I finally got the new blog up and running. Walking tomorrow, more or less as usual.
https://stillrestlessjo310242783.wordpress.com/
Ooh, a new blog. I’ve not been keeping up – what with the tomato mountain (so yes to your question re harvest busyness). Many thanks for the link. I’m going there now.
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What could be a better fit than the glorious plains of Africa Tish! Loved these.
Thanks, Tina. You echo my precise thoughts for choosing these pix.
The endless savannah of East Africa just takes your breath away, doesn’t it?
The homeland in our DNA, James?! And yes, it never fails, does it. I wish I could beam myself back there for a spell. I miss the scents for one thing – not just the vistas.
That’s an inspiring thought. Hadn’t looked at it like that before.
Loved them all but the one with the zebras in particular.
They have arranged themselves so scenically, haven’t they.
Great images!
Thank you, Anne.
I love these old-world tints on your (presumably) taken-on-film shots. Great shots, telling an interesting story.
Yes, the days of film, Margaret. The photos do indeed have a different ‘old-world’ look to them.
How wonderful! I especially like the photo of the zebras as it gives such a good sense of the height of the grass 🙂 But all are great – I love these wide open African skies!!
I so agree, Sarah. Big African skies are v. hard to beat.
I love these travels back in time, Tish….
Thank you for time-travelling with me, Sue.
Pleasure!
I always love your Africa shots, and stories. Perhaps because you got to see an Africa that most people don’t, and perhaps also because it was so long ago – there’s such an old world timeless wonderfully pre-instagram sense about them.
Alison
As time goes on, I do wonder if we were ever there. The drivers at the camp where we stayed always took us out around sun-up or sun-down and that tends to make for the dreamy light in the photos. When I took the pic of the young Maasai moran, we’d just been having an early morning picnic breakfast under a mulului tree, and he and his chum came to watch us. We shared of course, but not a word did they utter. It was a bit like being in a play.
Wowwwwwww. Beautiful!
Thank you, John 🙂
Beautiful photos, it is as if the land is stretching to eternity.
That is a very lovely way to describe it, Lakshmi. Thank you.
Glorious, Tish – I know panorama photography and wide angle was made for the African plains!
Many thanks, A-C. Your appreciative comment much appreciated 🙂
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stunning
Thanks, Becky.
Ahh such beauty ! What a view for life – must visit . Thank you for this!
Sometimes the view matters of what we see/imagine and things that inspire us . Am sharing a poem with you on a view. Hope you like it !
https://appamprawns.wordpress.com/2021/10/22/the-window-in-my-room/
Thanks for the comments, and for sharing your very thoughtful poem. The view of things – how we interpret the world – never was that a more pertinent area for scrutiny.