When we moved to South Africa, one of the first things that caught my eye was this pretty little yellow and black-faced bird who was living in this intricately woven nest just outside our hotel near Montecasino. I soon learned this bird was a Southern Masked Weaver, a fairly common bird here in South Africa.
A cheeky Southern Masked Weaver at Pilanesberg trying to steal our lunch
A couple of weeks ago we moved to Lonehill, one of the northern suburbs of Johannesburg. We spent the first 3 months in Pineslopes, right next to Lonehill, and while living there we discovered the lovely Lonehill Nature Reserve. The first time we visited was on a sunny and quite hot New Year’s Day and it was then that I set out on a mission to find us a place to live in Lonehill.
Lonehill Nature Reserve
In my last post I wrote about getting back to nature in the heart of Jozi so I decided I would continue with this theme and write about something even closer to home, my garden. I hadn’t had a garden (or backyard as some would call it) since the year 2000 when I left Arizona to live in France, and when we found our current apartment with a large and beautiful garden, I had no idea how much joy this garden would bring me in our first couple of months of our new life in South Africa.
My Garden
Under an African Sun 