Here is the latest photo contribution from resident Mark Romburgh

For some time now I've noticed quite a sizeable web in our garden. One morning with the right lighting I managed to 'mist" it and get a couple of shots. The other morning I came outside just as the son was rising and got a snap of the occupant, just before he packed up shop for the night. I also dicovered his lair which was inside one of the cow bells on our wind chime. Yesterday when it got so hot I went out and caught him getting a breath of fresh air on his "doorstep".

A closer look

Resident owner: Mark Romburgh; AKA: 'Macro Mark', has been getting up close and personal with the flowers in Rietvlei Park.  Here is his selection of "Close Ups"

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Thanks Mark, I really enjoy these pictures.

While walking around the park on Heritage day, I noticed that some of our residents have really stunning gardens. So I got to thinking, it would be great if people would take photos of their gardens and submit the pictures via email to our rietvleiparkbc@googlemail.com address. I could then upload the pictures and share them on this blog.  So get out there and start snapping away. . .Hey, maybe we could even have a garden competition. I'm just saying. . .You know. . .Putting it out there.

Noisy Neighbours

It looks like the picture blog is really taking off, (pun intended). In this post we feature the Hadeda Ibis.

I enjoyed Mark's email to me so much. that I decided to share it with all of you. The subject line of his email read:  "Noisy neighbours":

Hi Steve
No not a complaint this time. Following on from Brian's theme, just a few snaps I took of our "noisy neighbours" of the feathered variety. And just for a chuckle; for some time after my niece moved to Jo'bug and first encountered these acoustically ebullient fowl, she thought they were called 'La-di-das'.

Once again I have added a link in the bird name above, for those who are interested in learning a bit more about our feathered gardening assistants.

Pictures by Mark Romburgh