Summer in South Africa

The smells, sights & sounds of South Africa during summer.  The sound of crunching in the window frame as I close the window on another gecko, forgetting to do the usual warning tug to scare them off.  The buzzing of another mozzie at my head in the middle of the night....waking up with itchy feet in the morning from self same mozzie who was buzzing at me head...tree frogs popping up everywhere...in the bathroom, in the bedroom, on the door frames...grey ones with orange eyes, green ones with dark eyes.

Snakes at the front door...snakes in the garden(attacking tree frogs)...snakes on the garden fence...big snails, small snails, snails eating snails, snails on top of snails....slime slime everywhere.  Wasps in the tree tops, wasps in the roof tops...stupid wasp stinging me as I grab the bottle brush tree to steady myself!  Pain pain pain.  Big spiders, tiny spiders, hairy spiders, crab spiders under the cupboard, on the wall, on the ceiling.  Walking down the stairs into spider webs in the evenings, walking down my stairs in the house into spider webs in the morning.  Giant praying mantii checking me out as I walk through the house. 

Flocks of hahdedas calling to each other through the valley in the early hours of the morning...honking away happily...in the branches of the pine tree right outside my window.