Chessa-lee: Potholes

5 Sept 2007

The 3rd biggest and the greenest!!

This daisy is called a Baberton-daisy...what's in it?! My favourite colour!! Baberton is a town in the Eastern part of the country...Jock of the Bushveld - country....a legend of a dog...read it!! Search my site for Jock of the Bushveld...it is there...

The GREENEST canyon in the world!!! All other canyons are dry!!! And..this is the THIRD biggest...in the world! The Blyde River Canyon....Grand Canyon is the first...then...in Namibia!! the Fish River Canyon...and then ours...do you know where Namibia is...it borders South Africa...! Windhoek is the capital of Namibia...once called South West Africa and before that...do you know what is was called before THAT!! YES! there is another name....try find out....

This is the Blyde River dam....this is about 1/2 of it on this pic...
map.....
and here....ladies and gents...can I introduce you to...the very famous POTHOLES!! In the Blyde River!!
And...I hoped there was a spider here...can you see one?

20 Aug 2007

Red tailed boa

When arriving at the Blyde River Forever Aventura Resort- to take a break and have a kit-kat! we saw this Red tailed boa and I only wanted to take a picture of the guy holding it.... He then asked if I want to hold it! I'm not scared of snakes....I'm scared of spiders! Spiders are all over the place and you can't see them so easily! ....It was a bit funny, this very thick snake - having it all around your neck! This snake is a pet snake of the resort! I got a "reward" afterwards...an ice cream! (not from the resort!) One of my favourite flavours!

Forever Blydepoort

Virtual Mpumalanga ...worth taking a look at this site:

Mpumalanga and Blydepoort

Geniet wat jy hier vind....Enjoy what you found here...

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade--C J Langenhoven...Seek in the past everything that is good and clean and build thereon your future...Paul Kruger... Vriende moet soos boeke wees, min, maar goed uitgesoek --Langenhoven... Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected --Langenhoven... Goeie boeke en musiek verryk jou siel -- Good books and music enrich your soul --Langenhoven... Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved now love the more. --Thomas Parnell

You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in--Knowing not how to listen is knowing not how to speak--Heraclitus, Fragments. Vuil wasgoed is om te was!-- Langenhoven 'I think one move ahead - but it is always the best move'-Reti Some part of a mistake is always correct. - Savielly Tartakover

There is no failure except in no longer trying--Elbert Hubbard. The secret of success is the ability to survive failure --Noel Coward.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language, it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.~Robert G. Ingersoll

Avoid the crowd, think independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece! - Rumi.

It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation - Herman Melville. While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy. Chess is the touchstone of the human intellect.-John Wolfgang von Goethe.

The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the Universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature and the player on the other side is hidden from us. - Thomas Huxley.

Jou persepsie hang alles af van hoe wyd jou opvatting van die digkuns is. - Joan Hambidge.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom. - Proverb.

I doubt, therefore I think, I think, therefore I am - Rene Descartes.

Doubt is not the opposite of faith, it is one element of faith. - Paul Tillich

He who knows nothing, doubts nothing. Spanish proverb.

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates.

Val eerder in my sop as in my rede. - Langenhoven.

See in the past everything that is good and clean and build thereon your future..Paul Kruger - President of the ZAR. Vriende moet soos boeke wees, min, maar goed uitgesoek. - Langenhoven. Friends should be like books, few, but handselected...Langenhoven.

Good books and music enrich the sould - Langenhoven. The secrete of success is the ability to survive failure. - Noel Coward.

You cannot step twice in the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in..knowing not how to listen is knowing not how to speak. --Heraclitus, Fragments.

Chess teaches you to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good and it trains you to think objectively when you're in trouble. - Stanley Kubrick.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy

The pawns are the soul of chess. - Philidor

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