Operation Wildflower
  • Home
  • Albums
  • Links
    • Botanical Gardens
    • OWF Sites
    • Public Parks, Gardens and Reserves
    • Reference Sites
    • Private Parks, Gardens and Reserves
  • Information
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Articles
    • Plant Records
      • Aloes
      • Bulbs
      • Climbers
      • Cycads
      • Euphorbias
      • Ferns
      • Grasses
      • Herbs
      • Orchids
      • Parasites
      • Shrubs
      • Succulents
      • Trees
    • Sources of Information
    • Disclaimer
    • Subject Index
Home Home » HABITAT » Habitat diversity » Behold the farmyard
Back to Category Overview
Total images in all categories: 11,506
Total number of hits on all images: 6,493,813

Behold the farmyard

Behold the farmyard
Start View full size
[Please activate JavaScript in order to see the slideshow]
Previous Previous
Image 19 of 139  
Next Next
Image 21 of 139  
  • Aseroe rubra central hole or not
  • Aseroe rubra colour variations
  • Aseroe rubra stem
  • Asparagus eating giant or rock hamburger?
  • Baboon spider
  • Baboon spider with kids
  • Bagworm, masterpiece of efficiency
  • Bare patch coming to life
  • Behold the farmyard
  • Boscia foetida subsp. rehmanniana in a termite mound
  • Brunsvigia bulbs under stones
  • Calciferous ridge
  • Camel sparrow
  • Cocktail ant nest 1 m above the ground
  • Cocktail ant nest in a fynbos shrub
  • Colony of Erythrina zeyheri after a grass-fire
  • Colour

Image information

Description

The lonely Karoo farmyard appears like an oasis in its rugged landscape.

Skills honed over generations ensure production to feed both farmer and a share of townsfolk. Agricultural methods improve in living, learning systems over time, or decay. Buried ancestors would gape or turn in their graves at the practices of those that came later, be they offspring or newcomers; progressing or losing the plot. Some farmers have to lock their doors at night. Sometimes in vain.

Times change, speeded up by science or slowed down by social and economic realities. Is it sustainable? Civilisation does not progress in linear fashion. It is finite, but recurs cyclically and adopts forms that hold surprise.

Some peaks represent rhythm and progress, not always for nature. Some troughs last longer than the capacity of the resident population… and nature unperturbed, breathes again.

Hits
272
Photographer
Thabo Maphisa
Author
Ivan Latti
 
Back to Category Overview
Powered by JoomGallery