Posts Tagged ‘Kirstenbosch’

Gibson Guitar wall

Saturday, August 29th, 2009


Gibson Guitar wal, originally uploaded by Craig Strachan.

A wall at Planet Hollywood, Times Square. It contains a couple of hundred Gibson Guitars, mostly the Les Paul.

This is a fitting memorial to the famous Les Paul, who died on August 13 2009. He created the Gibson Les Paul guitar, which was played by almost every rock band in the world.

He also invented multi-track recording, which of course revolutionised the music industry.

Cape Town Toastmasters Club – picnic photos

Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

I have uploaded the photo’s of our year-end picnic at Kirstenbosch. The rest of the photos are here.

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Enjoy!

Perspective at Kirstenbosch

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

Two pictures taken at Kirstenbosch, both with my 300ml zoom lens.

Close

Close

And now, from far

Far

Far

As you must have gathered by now, I spend the day yesterday at Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens.

Magic Tree at Kirstenbosch

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

A few years ago, a Yellow wood tree in Kirstenbosch Gardens split in half during a storm. The team at Kirstenbosch simply filled the gap with soil, left the tree and hoped for the best. If you look at the picture below, you can clearly see the split in the middle.

Kirstenbosch Gardens, Macic Tree

Kirstenbosch Gardens, Magic Tree

The amazing thing is that the tree just continued to grow, and is quite happy and healthy. Amazing what nature can do, isn’t it.

So, now the tree is known as the Magic Tree, because to survive what it went through must have been magic!

Kirstenbosch Gardens, Magic Tree

Kirstenbosch Gardens, Magic Tree

Pretty amazing!

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