This takes guts !!!

It's 5.30AM
Chuck is just coming home after a long night of drinking and carousing.
Desmeralda, his wife, is standing in the doorway with a heavy broom in her hands.
Her eyes are spitting fire and she is about to swing the broom.
Chuck takes a long look at her and slurs:
"Are you finally going to clean the house, or are you going on a trip. ?"

Bertstravels
has no knowledge of the outcome of this little confrontation.

Our Menagerie

Our Menagery .

They do Not fight "like cats and dogs"

In fact, they mostly ignore each other, 

while practising "peaceful co-existance".

Kiddi - Cat - Cat !

Doggy - dog-dog !

A bit too early ?

"Snowbells" in our garden !

The earliest harbingers of Spring.

This year "A Bit Too Early" ?

Competitors in Free Enterprise

I needed (wanted) 12 bananas.

So, I bought 6 from one and 6 from the other !

There was much bartering and bantering.

Two more birds

Mirror, mirror on the floor

black and white, for ever more !

A "Saddle  Bill Storch"  in the tall grass !

Birds of Africa

When I returned from a Safari in Africa, some years ago, I discovered that I had taken pictures of 60 different species of birds. I had not even tried to specifically photograph birds. It just happened that way. I'll show you some of these images. A fraction of the different species flitting around Zimbabwe and Botswana.

The Yellow Billed Hornbill!

A close relation, maybe a brother of the Red Billed Hornbill.

The Hammerkop !

About the size of a little duck, 

it nevertheless builds the largest Nest of any Bird in Africa.

The Pale Chanting Goshawk

The Little Egret

a successful fisher and frogger

Aegyptian Geese

Kingfisher

The Purple Breasted Roller,

one of the most colourful birds in Africa

The Crimson Breasted Shrike

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Here are 10 different birds, 

photographed in Zimbabwe and Botswana.

There are another 50 in my Photo-Gallery,

while many many more escaped my lens.

Don't try to convert Jews.

I think that this is too funny for words:
The Vatican established a Commission which was to investigate the attempts by Catholics to convert members of the Jewish Faith.
This commission has now completed its studies and released a document stating that Christians, in particular Roman Catholics, should stop trying to convert Jews to Catholicism.
"Jews do not need to be converted to Catholicism to find Salvation, since God did not revoke his covenant with Israel." said the Pope.
In other words, Catholics are now ready  to share heaven with members of the Jewish faith.
The question now is: are the Jews ready to share heaven with the Catholics ?
Pope Francis speaks of the deep respect and friendship which exists between Catholics and Jews and adds: A Christian cannot be anti-Semitic. 
If this were so, there would be very few Christians in Austria and Germany, since many Austrians and Germans are deeply anti-Semitic.
Does the silence which came out of the Vatican during the persecution and murder of  millions of Jews during the Nazi regime not just deafen your ears ?