Differences in the seasons.

Nature teaches change and yet we resent change.
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I will show you some changes from winter to spring over two months and
big differences took place. It is always amazing to see the changes.
Lovely changes and the vines looked dead in the photo above.

South Africa is now in the spring season and the people far away up north are in their fall season. So soon it will be summer under the blazing African sun and winter up north in the cold of the snow.
So come and see the changes here.

But have a look at the same vines now, two months later. They are old vines that deliver top class wine grapes.
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During winter this seal puts on a fur coat.
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And during spring he swims naked hahaha.
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Only joking as the first one is a Cape Fur Seal and the bottom one is a Sea Lion.

During the last two weeks of winter we had snow on the mountains.
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And now the mountains are preparing for the heat of summer.
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Even the full moon of September and the full moon of this month (October) has changed colors.
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This is the October moon.
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So yes, makes one to wonder where the saying "change is a constant" was taken from as in nature these changes between the seasons have been going on since the very beginning.
Just so it is in our own lives, as the changes take place whether we like it or not. One can resent them, or one can embrace them, but believe me that they will continue to happen.

The same changes are taking place in the money world and one can see the resentment between the banks and crypto. Never resent changes for the better, rather grab them and make them work for you.

And That's All Friends!

Photos by Zac Smith-All Rights Reserved.

Camera: Canon Powershot SX60HS Bridge camera.

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grapes vines look dead in the winter season

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Yes, they are always stripped in winter to make space for the new growth in spring.

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Wow, you really captured a beautiful moon photo 🤩📸👍

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warm greetings @papilloncharity, I found you seeing @birdwatchers share your post, I'm friends with him and also want to be friends with you, so I follow your blog, the pictures you share are very beautiful, I also want to enjoy a season like that, but unfortunately in my country there are only rainy season and dry season.

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Oh yes, this change. Change is the only constant. And like you posted here, the vineyards are the best example of this change. It is not two months ago when the vineyards looked like dead fingers trying to grab the sky and now they are green and taking over. Change is beautiful when we know where to look to see the effects.

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Thank you and yes, my thoughts also as the vineyards are inedded the best places to show the change.
I could have placed an older witer photo where the long dead grass was still in the lanes, but I thought that the neat clean up before spring shot looked better.

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True, we need to sift as if through the hay for the nice photographs! And I walked through the vineyards in Stellenbosch today, it is really so beautiful. And all of the new growth in the fynbos. We live in a gem here!

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Hahaha, becoming a tedious effort and at times much indecision about the best shots to post.

You have some lovely grape vines there along the R44 and at times we pop in to the Helderberg farm to get some Malachites there.

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The Malachites are so shy, I have never seen them in my garden. I traveled 200km to Swellendam one time, visiting family, and only saw one there after looking for so long. Kleinmond in the mountain there are also loads of them feasting on the proteas.

The paradox of choice haha. When we have so many options available to us we sometimes refrain from choosing.

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Hahaha, Malchites are all around us mate.
You sound like the missionaries here that go to other countries 🤣

Indeciveness is man's curse methinks.

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Isn't it that when we look for something that we won't find it, but when we do not look for it that it pops up!? Same with the damn feathered friends sometimes! Just my bad luck that I do not always have my camera with me haha.

Indeciveness is man's curse methinks.

Indeed. We are strange creatures sometimes.

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Happens to me so often that you wouldn't believe it. I have to live with two left hands and two right hands in a conditiion called ambidextry, so my many hands compete against each other to place things where I cannot find it. Then the things appear out of nowhere hahaha.

Ah, I hear so many complain about not having their camera with them and whenever I miss an instant occasion then I console myself with the thought that it was only meant for my own eyes.

Srange creatures sometimes? Most times in my book.

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Then the things appear out of nowhere hahaha

Always! There is a funny story, kind of long, but the condensed version is you look for your car keys because you need to buy milk, while looking for the keys, you see the light in the garage is not working, going to the cupboard where the lightbulbs are stores, you walk past the unwatered plant, getting the jug on your way to the kitchen you see that your coffee is on the counter, you go to the microwave to warm it up but see there is no milk in and you remember oh yes you were about to buy milk.

it was only meant for my own eyes

I drink coffee every morning outside where the cape white eyes and suikerbekkies visit and every morning I think, get the camera! Then I console myself that this is like poetry: fleeting and you must enjoy it through your eyes and not a lens.

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Hahaha, confusion reigns mate especially when you get older. That is indeed a funny story.

Exactly that thought I also have and it is a great consolation. Then at other times I get a prize unexpected shot, so what you lose on the swings, you make up on the merry go round.

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They always say it gets worse when you are older, but I am already feeling these things. Either the saying is wrong, or me getting older will be very bad! Can only laugh.

Exactly! Had such a great one this afternoon. A guineafowl almost walked into the kitchen but proceeded to sit on the wall and sing for what must have been 10 minutes. Plenty of time to take nice images.

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Ha, I never had these things when I was your age. So you must prepare yourself for many strange things that occur overnight when you get older.

Well there you go, as you won on the merry go round.

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There are many strange things on the horizon. We can only brace ourselves.

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I think that we are all fortified against the recurring evils and strange things, but it is the numbness that worries me.

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Very much so. The numbness is scary. It is every capitalist's dream, to be honest. Numb and mindless consumers. Was it not Marx that said religion is opium to the masses? How wrong was he? Endless consumerism to numb us is what he should have seen, but 200 years ago I guess the problems we face today were a glimmer on the horizon.

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Ever so slowly we are conditioned to become used to crime and other atrocities.
It is this and of course consumerism that tames us and that even dulls our emotions.
A biblical view, way before Marx describes it thus in my own words.;
In those days you will see things that you have never seen before.

Btw. I am testing two of my tokens. Please let me know if they work.

!BEER
!PIZZA

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Isn't it like the frog that sits in the pot unaware that it is being boiled alive because the temperature was only increased slowly without the frog's awareness? Aren't we the frogs at this stage in the battle where everything is boiling metaphorically and everyone asking how did this happen, but it has been slowly happening for at least 50 years?

I think the pizza one worked. It doesn't look like I am having a cold one with the pizza!

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Hinting at a !BEER hare are we???

Yes, I know the boiling frog story well and it's simply the conditioning of people by sly others.

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A cold beer after a long day's work is sometimes the best medicine. Maybe I have slowly been conditioned to believe this!

I am a little bit too lazy to translate, and the Afrikaans says so lekker: "meng jouself met die semels en die varke gaan jou eet."

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Hahaha, I haven't touched a real beer for many years and my wife has never seen me touch any alcohol.
I had my innings when I was young and that was enough for me.
But you are right I was an avid fisherman and a beer after a big one was always as they say in Afrikaans "Lekker"

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There is a funny distinction they make: "hengel" and "visvang". The former is a drinking sport, the latter is a fishing sport.

And yes, I think your avoidance of the fermented drink is a better option! Coffee makes for better reflection than intoxicated thoughts.

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Hahaha, the funniest thing was that I never had a camera during my fishing days. So I spent about 30 years of my fishing life seeing some magnificent sights with no camera.
Only when I started Papillon did I have a need for a camera to tell our charity work stories.

Yes, I still fished with short breaks during the first 2 years of Papillon's existence, but the difference was that now I had a camera and once the photographic bug bit me, my fishing days were over.

Yep, you can call me a coffee junky now.

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Oh yes, when the photography bug bites it bites hard! I changed from "communicating" through art and my pencil and charcoal to "communicating" through my camera and the photographs.

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Oh yes, that bug can certainly change one's lifestyle.

Now listen up, I am going to cut your comments to only 2 until this loadshedding farce is over.
Not that I don't enjoy our chats, but I get many comments and as was the case last night, I slipped on answering half of it due to no power.

Hope that you will understand.

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Totally understand 😅
Currently sitting in the dark (loadshedding) also replying to all the comments.
Good luck!

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Next power cut now at 10am.

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It is already driving me crazy. And I don't even depend that much on the power now. When I baked more actively, it was some of the most stressful moments to time my baking perfectly otherwise upset customers.

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Oh yes, it drives many crazy especially when they are midway, or even almost done with an important task on the internet and then all of a sudden gets switched off. Losing everything and then later having to repeat it.
I can imagine how many bakers lost out during important processes, but the worst thing is at the hospitals when the generators don't kick in and a doctor is left in the dark halfway during an operation.
Such is life.

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Such is life, but as you mentioned regarding hospitals and the more important things (at least more important than baking) set this country back. One almost wants to shout from the building tops "This is unacceptable". But telling my dad this same thing, he confided in me that they as young engineers in the 1980s working in power stations said the same thing then, and warned everyone that this will happen, but no one listened. As you said, such is life right.

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Oh yes, I worked on the high voltage Eskom towers across the country in the 80s and can you believe that some of the towers that we marked for replacement are still standing today untouched. If one of the towers collapse, this country will be set on fire.

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I saw something similar in the US. We are not all that unique in our situation. People love to leave things so that they break and then they want to replace them. I want to say it is the human condition, but I guess capitalism needs to be blamed.

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Capitalism is great when it is responsibly applied and managed, but greed is the millstone around it's neck. And yes we are not unique in the suffering as it is worldwide.
Our problem is that we work in first world thought instead of development principles. High time for the size of the government to be trimmed to a workable size.

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True. Free market and so on is very good but greed is the ultimate problem it needs to resolve. How, I have no idea.
And yes, that is a huge problem in this country. That mentality and that government is way too big and taking way too big chunks of money in their back pocket.

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I was listening to some poetry reader on the radio and he said that the guilty sinks through the sand to disappear from view. It struck me that this is exactly what is happening with all of the ones with big back pockets. They simply disappear from sight. And if they get into the limelight in court, they have enough money to deny and appeal any guilty finding with top advocates.
What a life.

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Exactly right! Too big to fail or something in that light. I wholeheartedly agree with the poet you heard. It is strange how we "plebs" are under the law and those with enough money above it. But we cannot say this too loud otherwise we might upset those with power and money. What a life indeed.

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Oh yes, if only it was not all in the open in the news and on social media.
The plebs do not need to know what's going on, but the media cannot be muzzled.
So we just have to endure and carry on in our own ways methinks.

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Just like the global capitalist system slowly corrodes and chips away at our morality, we can slowly chip away at the global capitalist system. Small gestures ultimately change the world. And, again, blame my youth, but let us proclaim along with Edmund Burke that:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing

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Absolutely true and every good deed performed by one soul daily contributes like a drop into the ocean of good deeds across the world. Morality is not dead and it's spiritual warfare out there.

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We youngsters need to gear up for this fight. As I see it, modern life sells you the illusion that fighting won't help. And it sells false ideas to those willing to pay to forget about the responsibility to fight.

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The fight is spiritual my friend and there is very little that we can do about it. Our main weapon is to stand up for the truth against all odds. Remember the 90/10% rule, 1 will back you and 9 will come against you.

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We have to have this mentality. And I guess that if we have 1 that has our back that we should count ourselves as lucky. It is really rough out there. Especially in the academy. Inflated egos and so on is a recipe for having no one to have your back.

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Luckily what works for me is that I simply do my own thing with little care about the credits.
My strike rate of it working is about 8 out of 10 and then if someone else picks it up and runs with it, then I am happy is and the credits belong to them.
Such as with the current coding project for poor children that have now become so popular. It has attracted professional volunteer trainers and it is run by top class managers. A big company has also sponsored 21 new laptops and the kids are happy. Their future looks great.
So my job is done.

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Well, congratulations on this success! Your input changes life. As we discussed, it is not for the credit that you are doing it but without your input, there would not be such an output. Give credit where credit is due. And as I mentioned in the other comment, skin in the game. As a youth, you are someone to look up to! And I mean it with all good intentions. People today are here for the appearances (think about all the egos on Instagram and the likes). Few people embody their passion for others. There is hope in dark times.

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I mentioned it only for the reason that you can see what happens when a firm decision gets taken.
So many have empty dreams because they take firm decisions to gather riches and for many other selfish reasons and they are the ones walking around sour and irritated every day.
Let your love flow, song lyrics that tell what it is all about.

The dark times are here specifically to waken the human race from their folly, but they cannot see and they cannot hear because their hearts are darkened by the rewards of this world.
Then we die as we were born, with nothing.

!BEER

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This is so true. And even in my own family, we have these members who are blinded by their own search for worldly pleasures. Trying to have a meaningful conversation for some reason always turns into a politically charged event. But alas, even opening the eyes of one is better than none.

Let your love flow

Indeed, that is the goal. Thank you so much!

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Even one is so much better than none my friend. Remember that it took only one man to change the world and his power is with us all of the time.
Maybe you should try to get a book that I read a long time ago, "The Power of One". I forget who the author was, but that book is a mirror of my own life.
So just you keep on going.

!PIZZA

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I have the book yes! Powerful story, if you are referring to the novel. I also read somewhere recently about the power of what most people deem insignificant. The "major" events are based on small events that go unheard of. So even if what we are doing seems insignificant, we need to remember that major events cannot happen without the smaller ones.

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Oh yes, I often think about this as something as insignificant as a garage at home was used as a major launch pad for a multi million dollar enterprise.
All major events start off on the foundations laid by the smaller ones.

One cannot make a prestige brand of wine without grapes. The grapes will not grow well if there is no one tend the vines. The vines will not grow well if there is no one to prepare the for growth in the winter season. Someone cannot tend the vines well if he or she is sick, do you think that health worker that keeps the workers well are recognized when the wine's certificate is presented at a gala function in a 5 star European hotel? Nope, the big cannot exist without the small.
Sorry, I am in hurry and there might be some errors above.

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No problem, thank you so much for making time to respond so beautifully.

And that is true. Those who actually do the backbreaking work rarely get the recognition. I worked in various professional kitchens, and the same goes for them. The chef rarely cooks the food. He/she is basically a signature but the food is cooked by those who will rarely be in the position of the head chef. This is not always the case, but mostly. And then the head chef will be rewarded handsomely and the people who actually cook the food will get a pat on the back.

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Thank you and just a piece of my thoughts shared with you.
Such is life my friend and we can either accept it or lump it. Fairness hardly ever plays a role in a democracy, as all of the dogs are left loose and the bigger ones get the bone.

!PIZZA

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Fairness hardly ever plays a role in a democracy, as all of the dogs are left loose and the bigger ones get the bone.

Yet another wonderful metaphor. And this one is so true. It is totally utopian to think about equality or equal opportunities. There will always be "bigger fish" out there or kids with parents' money. I am speculating a lot now, but one of my brother's friends opened a dentist practice in Somerset West. He hails from Gauteng and only finished his studies recently. His dad has so much money. I am only thinking about all the struggling medical students out there that also have the same potential. But as you mentioned, the bigger dog eventually gets the bone.

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I must say, you got me there... I've never seen a sea lion with fur!

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Hahaha, I was expecting to catch a few and you made my day.
Apologies as on occasion my humor escapes my mind into the posts.

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