Full moon at sunset

After a few days of torrential rain over Cape Town, the skies have cleared and at sunset we were treated to my favourite natural phenomenon of the last sunlight filtering through the big swells at Outer Kom, creating that incomparable glass-green shimmer as they crested and fell in a tumult of snow white foam. The only evidence of the bad weather is a huge pool of water in the driveway, which is being fed by a natural spring which appears in particularly wet years in the middle of the lawn. I have planted restios to absorb most of the water, but in dry times they are very unhappy and need to be watered every day. I suspect that the spring is the reason for the existence of the huge gum tree in front of the house, and as that is dying rapidly, the area will soon become very soggy again once the 'sponge' has gone! I'm really looking forward to its demise - it's not very attractive and I'd rather plant proteas and other indigenous plants in its place.

An exceptionally bright full moon looms above the mountain, perhaps because the rains have washed away any pollution that was in the air, making everything fresh and clean again. What an excellent by-product of stormy weather!

MOONRISE AT SUNSET 17.11.13 - LONG BEACH, KOMMETJIE
(Photo by Deborah Wynne)