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Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge – Things people play with

Here is my take on this week’s Fun Photo Challenge from Cee.

While visiting Prague we had dinner at a restaurant that had a toy train theme.  It was set up with a proper working toy railway system.  Once your drinks were ordered they were delivered directly to your table by train!  It was great fun and a wonderful way to bring out the inner child.

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Weekly Fun Photo – Book or Paper

Here is my contribution to this week’s Fun Photo Challenge – Books and/or Paper

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The joy a book can bring – First Graders learning to read.
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Christmas Gifts wrapped in delightfully patterned paper

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What can this lovely paper be hiding?

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Christmas Table all set about with Paper Decor

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Fun with Paper Craft

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Fun Photo Challenge – Up or Down

Here is my contribution to this week’s Fun Photo Challenge

This week’s challenge calls for ways to go up or down in the outdoors.

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Climbing up the jungle gym

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Down from the train station

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Table Mountain Cable Car goes up and down

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The London Eye

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Funicular at Cape Point – Going Up

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My friend Heather is up in the Hot Air Balloon!

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Fun Photo Challenge – Busy

Here is my contribution to this week’s Fun Photo Challenge from Cee

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My Great-Nephew- busy in the garden

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Thai Chef – Busy making me a delicious omelette

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My grandson busy? on the computer

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Busy in the Kitchen

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Busy in the garden

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Busy building a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle

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Fun Photo Challenge – Free and Easy

Here is my contribution go this week’s Fun Photo Challenge from Cee

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Free and Easy Lifestyle – Fishing on the lake at Sani Valley Lodge

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Magpie Geese swimming free and easy – Australia 2014

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Free and Easy Fun on the Rocks – Cape Agulhas 2010

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Free and Easy on the beach – Struisbaai 2010

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Free and Easy Toasted Marshmallows – Struisbaai 2010

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Taking to the sky – fee and easy – Greater Flamingos – False Bay Ecology Park

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Free and Easy in the Sea – Fish Hoek Beach – 2006

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Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge – Alone

Here is my contribution to this week’s Fun Photo Challenge – Alone

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Alone on a Desert Dune

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A man, a tree and a rock alone in the desert

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Alone in a hostile environment

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Gemsbok (Oryx) alone in the Namib Desert

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Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge – Rain and/or Rainbow

For this week’s Fun Photo Challenge we’re asked to post photographs or rainbows or rain.   Here is my contribution

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A summer thunderstorm interrupted our braai – “No problem,” said our grandson, Jay. And he stood in his bathing costume to complete the cooking!

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Rainbow over the vineyards

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Stormy Rainbow in the Kgalagadi Trans-frontier Park

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Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge – Leaves or Trees

Here is my contribution to this week’s Fun Photo Challenge from Cee

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The leaves of the Mopane Tree are butterfly shaped.  The wood of the mopane tree is hard and is used to build houses and also railway sleepers. It is termite resistant

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Baobab Tree in Winter

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Baobab Tree in Summer

 

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Grandsons climbing trees

 

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Weekly Fun Photo Challenge – Wildlife

This week’s Fun Photo Challenge from Cee calls for Wild Life Photographs.  This should be easy for me as I have literally thousands of Wild photographs.  BUT what to choose – that is the question.  I have limited myself to ten! I hope you enjoy the ones that cracked the nod.

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African Darter with prey – Lake Panic, Kruger National Park

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Piggy sun-downers at Sunset Dam, Kruger National Park

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Brown Hyaena at Kgalagadi Trans-frontier Park

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Giraffe – Kruger National Park

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Kicking up dust while racing to the waterhole

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Cheetah – Kgalagadi Trans-frontier Park

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Nothing beats coming upon this with not another car in sight – Kruger National Park

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Life is good in The Kgalagadi Trans-frontier Park

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I love you Mom

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A  cuddle of cubs

 

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Fun Photo Challenge – Birds

This week’s Fun Photo Challenge’s Topic is Birds

Wow – what a challenge – I have literally thousands of bird photographs being the bird enthusiast that I am – so what to choose was my dilemma.   I decided to post the more unusual and interesting rather than the photographically perfect.

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Verreaux’s Eagle-Owl with prey

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Secretary Bird taking a bath

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Red-crested Korhaan with crest up

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Red-crested Korhaan in full voice

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African Darter at Lake Panic – Kruger National Park

2010-10-06 066 Bateleur on tortoise carcass Helen

Bateleur with tortoise prey

2010-10-09 028 Avian Murder Earl

Avian Murder?  A red-billed buffalo-weaver attacking his enemy.

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This young sugar-bird knocked himself out when he flew into a window.  The Earl revived him and ever since then he returns to say thank you

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Fun Photo Challenge – Z

This week’s Fun Photo Challenge from Cee calls for pictures of anything beginning with Z.  Of course the first thing that comes to mind is Zebra.

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Part of the challenge includes photographs of  ‘catching zzzs’

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Lazy Lion 

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Sleeping Puff Adder found in our Kgalagadi Camp!

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Went straight back to sleep when he was caught and put under a distant tree!

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A very comfy position to sleep in

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Cee’s Fun Photo Challenge 19 December 2017

This week’s Fun Photo Challenge from Cee calls for photos that begin with R and have at least six letters.  Here is my contribution.

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Rhinoceros

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Rabbit

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Railway Engine – Strahan – Tasmania

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Railway Station – Strahan – Tasmania

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Rainbow Lorrikeet