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Streets in Ysterplaat are seldom boring.

Nine years

Shing and Mini have been Ida's constant companions for nine years now.

Digging

I spent a morning digging a trench bed for vegetables. Should have dug it wider. In Ysterplaat, at a certain depth, one comes to know with a jolt why the area is called Ysterplaat. Once there one needs a pickaxe. Paisley dug the ditch too. Cat dug the marigolds. The guy at the nursery called them stink Afrikaners, recommending them.

Haastig

This design is intended for a book bag. I set myself a challenge: depict the Karoo without a wind pump. I very nearly failed. Hares and rabbits are amazing animals; they are mythological. The Riverine Rabbit - Bunolagus monticularis - is very rare and endangered. It lives in the Karoo and every time I see roadkill, my heart freezes.

Trouble

Also from a newspaper picture. Like I said, newspaper pictures are great fun to copy. But not TOO closely.

Not in Ysterplaat

Copying newspaper pictures in watercolour is great fun. More often than not, they are portraits. Would this man have appreciated a portrait of himself, I wonder?