Natural History Repeats Itself

Aaaah.... Back to familiar ground. My Natural History Collection is expanding into a fabric range. I am just so captivated by the ease with which nature's forms create art. It's so unassuming. So clean in its simplicity and lyrical with every line. I love that I don't need to change a thing....it just is.

I found this dried out aloe and formidable thorns a block away from my house in Darling...on someone's discarded garden refuse - waiting for the collection truck. Darlinger's have some truly beautiful gardens...

I will feel a little sad to leave here.

The beach is so close.... and my sea snail and shell collection is now cumbersome in it's enormity ....

Churchhaven - the beach in the nature reserve of Langebaan lagoon has some really interesting ancient shells that I find sticking out of the very bottom layers of sand dunes.

The blue grey centipede / shongologo was lying high on top - bleached into paleness from its original rich brown black shininess by the relentless summer sun.

Once, on a walk I found 23 seagull skeletons in a sand dune. By chance. I saw a yellowing bone sticking out of the sand and as I pulled it- the rest tumbled down, revealing bone upon bone. Skulls of all sizes. even the delicate rings of cartilage around the legs. they blew away in the wind as I lifted them ...

Shards from the Karoo... and Lo! I even found shards around my own garden! Stamps from my husbands old childhood collection...can you spot the stamp?