Last week we were staying in Nieu Bethesda and I realised that one of the important things about the Karoo is the shape and texture of the small things we experience. I’ve already posted pictures of big skies and clouds or rain storms and sunsets in the Karoo. Yet the Karoo is also in the shape of a twist of fence wire, a pink vygie, the Bushman poison bulb (Boophone distichia), a bee entering a sneeze wood post or an inverted padlock.
So here’s a selection of just those things – and a few more.
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This is absolutely right, Roddy. The sheer poetry of the small, of intricate and beautiful detail.
It’s the big landscape with the small things that makes the Karoo so special I think.
Yup, but the Karoo sky and landscape are so vast that it sometimes takes a special sensibility to be aware of those tiny gems. Lovely.