Yet another flower picture. I think I know the name of the plant, but like a word on the tip of the tongue, it won't come to me. This was also taken in the Hell-bourg cemetery. My next pics will be of the rain here in Mayotte and the scarily impressive and dangerous thing that is our street when a hard rain falls. :P


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Poppies![1] I love the delicate poppies that grow wild in the French countryside, especially when they bloom in the thousands, creating a swath of scarlet in a field of gold or green. Imagine my surprise seeing them flourishing in a cemetery on Ile de la Réunion. I guess I shouldn't have found their presence odd though, given the hundreds of ( Read more... )

I'm going to do a whenever-I-think-of-it photo-a-day for a little while featuring...Water. I think that's appropriate given that the rainy season has well and truly begun, don't you? The rest of you (or most of you) have snow; I have rain.

This first one is for pjthompson . PJ, this isn't the panorama I mentioned a while back, but I made it because I've been ( Read more... )

I've gone and done it again.

I put off posting the pics from our recent stay in Reunion Island, not because of laziness or sheer procrastination, but because of sickness and then one thing after another, piling up as those one-thing-after-another things like to do.  Now that I've finally got around to it, I'm not just doing to post a handful and it ( Read more... )

Yesterday's photo post was from the 10-12th of January. We arrived on the evening of the 9th, and it was already dark outside. The eve of our arrival, torrential rains caused  a rockfall on the oceanside highway, killing a man, so we had to take a horrid switchback mountain road full of hairpin turns and these amazingly dangerous ditches. Perhaps ( Read more... )

Ah ha, I bet you thought I was going to take another five months to get around to doing this. :P But no, I have no pity on you. This vacation was shorter than the one to  Madagascar, so you'll have less photos to wade through, if that is any consolation. ;-)

So, waaaaaay back in January, Julien and I went to La Réunion, where we stayed with Hervé ( Read more... )

Human beings are odd creatures. If I were in the States or France right now, the prospect of going to Reunion Island would thrill me. Since I'm already living in the Indian Ocean--on a less-than-paradisiac island, it's true--it doesn't unduly excite me. I know I will enjoy myself once I'm there; I know I will see marvellous landscapes, for RI is ( Read more... )

and the threads of the year draw taut and thin, the frayed ends already tickling my fingers. Yet another "winter" is being spent in Mayotte, and I can't say that I particularly enjoy missing out on cold, fog, and snow. I know several people on my flist suffer from SAD, and I must admit that as a lover of all seasons, it is a disorder I cannot ( Read more... )