Daily Prompt: Thank You
The internet is full of rants. Help tip the balance: today, simply be thankful for something (or someone).
Photographers, artists, poets: show us THANKS.
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I am thankful for being away from people this week. I am thankful for the beautiful part of the world that I live in… and that beauty is all around me. It is spring in the Bushveld. It hasn’t rained since March. It is dry, and the veld are prone to runaway bushfires. Yet the trees are flowering in the hope that rain will soon come. The birds and animals are mating- a new season of life is starting to happen. When the rain comes, everything will be just alright…
Let me show you just a few things I have seen this week, that I am thankful for…
No, not Cape Buffalo like last time… this one is not so dangerous… it is a Blue Wildebeest that is asking: What are you looking at, punk? They tend to be a bit grumpy… But their best friend is always somewhere near- ask anyone who has seen the Wildebeest Migration in the Serengeti (I did not yet…)
Hopefully everybody recognizes a Zebra… They and Wildebeest are best of friends… the one can’t see so good, the other can’t hear so good, so together they have a much better chance of survival… I wish all the people of South Africa could take this to heart… We do not have to be the same to help each other to be great!
And one of my favorites of the Bushveld: Pumba from Lion King. There are thousands of them around our town…
How can you not love the Warthog? And this one has a spring in his step… (Mating season?) 
Dombeya rotundifolia
In the veld, all around our town, the Dombeya Rotundifolia is flowering… It has the most beautiful and ugly names in Afrikaans… Beautiful- “Nooientjie van die Bosveld”- or Bride of the Bushveld. And “Drolpeer” or Pear looking like a turd… describing it’s fruit. As I said- the Bushveld is very dry. But the trees are flowering- new life has begun in spring… And for that I am thankful… the Spring coming after every Winter…
The Rider 
Thank you! I think that’s the flower i photographed today, I skipped nature studies so grateful for your lesson in flora.
I think the warthog is simply gorgeous, and knows it, hence the spring in step.
The warthog is my favourite animal, I love to see a family of them in the bush, all with their tails up.
Great post, I share your thankfulness for these things. More people should look to get happiness from simple things. I love warthogs too: they are 1 of the Ugly Five, but I think they are cute!
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Enchanting photos. I’m not really keen on animals but looking at your photos, I can see how majestic they are. Beautiful.
Love that Pumba with a spring in his step..too funny!! I am thankful for the cooler temps in my city and I’m thankful for your beautiful post!!
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Loving Pumba 🙂
Beautiful!
And now I am off to get a last few photos before sitting around a last campfire tonight. I am alone tonight. And tomorrow, it is back to reality… I hope you all have an awesome day, with something to be thankful for!
Also read a little bit more at this lovely blog! http://kenyasafaris.wordpress.com/tag/wildebeest/
Hey! Thats interesting – I always wondered why zebra and wildebeest stay with each other, but never knew the other part – which one cant see too well, and which one cant hear too well?
Wildebeest don’t see so good… There is also the way they help each other to reach the type of forage they like- read a little more about it here: http://www.botswana.co.za/Botswana_Wildlife_Behaviour-travel/interspecies-relationships.html
Thats so interesting…and I take it zebra dont hear so well then?
Not as good as the wildebeest. But I think the eating habits have a little more to do with it. But they do love each other, on every place I go that has Wildebeest and Zebra, they are close together and never far apart…
Yes that’s so true, and very sweet 🙂