This beautiful piece is another from the Doctors in Art exhibition held recently. Such accuracy and proportion created with so few colours requires real talent.
My favourite picture from the Doctors In Art exhibition. This leopard looks so relaxed and friendly. They are such beautiful creatures. Just a pity they have such big teeth, which they're not scared to use.
This evening I had a meeting at Daikonia Center in Daikonia Street. I am quite familiar with the streets of Durban, especially those in the city center, but this one sounded foreign. Consulting my trusty street map of the city, I was a little surprised to find this book also had never heard of the street, nor building.
Only other option was to consult the internet, and sure enough, there it was. This bit was no surprise - it too had suffered at the hands of the street name fanatics. At the meeting I was pleasantly surprised, and yet a little saddened to discover the building had been the St Joseph's catholic school in St Andrews Street. Saddened because it no longer was St Josephs, and yet another small part of our history was now over.
The good news is that the building is looking really fresh and new, in spite of its age. Besides, these arches are so pretty.
This rather colourful car was spotted at the local shopping center. If you need to have your product seen far and wide, this could be the answer. However you want to get in quickly with this, because when the idea catches on, and every second car is sporting some or other colourful product, we the unsuspecting public will start switching off to this, and I may just start photographing plain coloured cars!.
The car-guard in Old Fort Road, brings his washing to work. What better place to let them dry, than over the vegetation alongside the road.
Today we've had no water. It was switched off at 8 am and finally now at 10:30 pm, I can hear it gurgling through the pipes again. Guess this means it's tea time at last!
Yesterday we were without electricity twice - most of the morning, then again all evening. Aparantly due to load shedding. Wreaks havoc with processing photos, and updating blogs on the internet.
If it continues like this, the guys in Old Fort Road will have to make space for my washing too!
The Durban University of Technology was, formally, known as the Natal Technical College, and later The Natal Technikon. This has always been a technical college, so I'm not sure why it suddenly has the word university in its title. But then I guess that mine is not to reason why on these issues.
Whatever its name, the city campus is a graceful old building at the top end of West Street, and now surrounded by very busy main roads.
Port Shepstone is an hour and a half drive down the south coast, from Durban. This 102 year old lighthouse is on the beach, at the mouth of the Umzimkulu river. Umzimkulu is a zulu word meaning big river.
Whenever there is a lot of rain upstream, these reivers of KZN send their soil down to the sea. This one was no exception. Have a good look at the sea in the background. You'll notice it is both brown and green. It always looks so strange, as though there's an invisible wall around the brown water, preventing it from mixing with the green.
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