1670 map of West Africa by English cartographer John Ogilby. Depicts the African Gold Coast, Ivory Coast, and Slave Coast from Guniea south through the modern nations of, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Mali, Burkina Faso, Cote D’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. Ogilby modeled this map after the 1639 Hondius / Janesson …
Monthly Archives: May 2012
Approaching the city at dusk
Approaching the city at dusk from Betty’s Bay via the N1 on our way to Bob and Nix in Hout Bay where we will be in loco parentis for a week while they are attending a legal conference in Tokyo. With love as always Colleen & Walter Hout Bay, Sunday 27 May 2012
A case of burnout – reading Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” (Die Verwandlung)
Kafka’s third book, The Metamorphosis. The first edition, 1916. The cover illustration is a lithograph by Ottomar Starke. (www.kafka-franz.com) Franz Kafka (1883-1924) in 1912 wrote his story “Die Verwandlung” (The transformation or, as it has become known in the English speaking world: “The Metamorphosis”). The story is conventionally read as a story about an overworked …
Paging through our photo library on a cold Cape Sunday morning
The logs are sizzling in the fireplace. It’s a windy, cold, rainy Cape Sunday winter day. Every now and then the sun breaks through the clouds and floods the room. Colleen is working on her painting commission. Paging through our photo library – of the many thousands of images, some appear to have a surprising quality, …
Riebeek Kasteel afternoon
Riebeek Kasteel Many artists, culinary, of craft and fine art – have chosen Riebeek Kasteel as their place to work and be, away from the city – Cape Town. The neighbouring town of Riebeek West has brought forth two sons of the nation: Jan Smuts and David Francois Malan – both Prime Ministers of South …
Cape autumn light
The autumn light in the Cape has a special, poetic quality. The summer heat has waned, the winter with its storm and rain is yet a distance away. A quietness and stillness warms the heart, soothes the eye and all the senses. The wine has been harvested and the grape juice is gently fermenting in …
A walk down Lower Main Road Observatory, Cape Town
We were staying in Adam and Thekla’s lovely house in “Obz” this week and they and Bob and Dominique have not stopped pummeling us with the most wonderful treats all week, all around Colleen’s and Walter’s birthdays. The weather has been wintery throughout and both Texi and Adamski were a little under the weather with …
