I have some great landscapes to share with you today.
A lovely warm day, with clear skies, and almost wind still.
Crop rotation means that the same crop, such as sunflowers are planted every spring season. It is rotated by planting daisies every two seasons, as the daisies restore and replenish the soil. So, this spring season will be daisy season, and maybe next spring it will be back to sunflowers again.
The flowers are still young, as we are in the last weeks of winter, but they are already putting up a great show.
We were at the Vergelegen Wine Estate, as I wanted to take a walk to one of the dams in order to get some reflections of the mountains in the water. Sadly, a slight breeze sprang up, but it didn't bother me, as I got what I wanted that I will show you in another post. But back to this day, and the daisy flowers. We were also happy to see some of the Nguni cattle behind a yellow line of daisies, and I will also show you close ups of the daisy flowers.
Let's have a look.
A closer shot of the tag picture above.
Yep, the cattle were doing their thing in a camp behind the daisies.
Here below is a closer look at the daisies. We were surprised at the colors of the daisies, as from a distance they all seemed to be yellow daisies.
That bench at the end of the gravel path is our favorite meditation spot.
Imagine taking a stroll in the wide-open spaces of the farm, and listening to the silence, interspersed with birdsong. A far off mooo of a cow is heard occasionally, and it is so very much different from city and town life. No busyness, no rushing, just the standard way of farm life. Now let me tell you that under these circumstances, one's soul can really be rejuvenated.
A good trick is to stop all thoughts that crowd the mind so regularly and try to have none. Not easy, I know, but when a person tries to do this then after a while it becomes natural and then one can really start to appreciate even the silence and the beauty of the creation. There is a hidden power inside us and once we start to cultivate the mind to accept it, new doors are opened up in one's way of life.
Just our way of looking at things.
I hope you enjoyed the pictures and the story.
Photos by Zac Smith. All-Rights-Reserved.
Camera: Canon PowershotSX70HS Bridge camera.
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