A South African Sampler

Man and his dog in the traditional lands

below the Cathedral Peak Hotel,

KwaZulu-Natal, in the Drakensberg mountains.

A naturescape in the Golden Gate Highlands, the national

park shown in Wednesday's photos of the isolated farmhouse.

The coast near Betty's Bay, on the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Town.

An example of the hundred miles or so of barley fields against the backdrop of

mountains near the south center of the Western Cape.

This area is also called Overberg.

Swellendam is a pretty town in the Overberg, full of Cape Dutch historic 

churches, public buildings and homes.

And, my grand dogs -- Sequoia and Lola -- and I take a chance on

a walk (me) /romp (them) in the countryside north of Johannesburg,

in advance of another epic Joburg summer storm.