Nature

A quasi-feral but colorful cat, tamed each

My first poem about an African safari, but the action took place as we landed at the lodge’s

On a different safari we experienced the one-sided meeting of leopard and hyena, and then a meeting between leopard and man, which would have been one-sided but for a

Also on Safari, we had a close encounter with a massive male

A first experience of the natural violence on safari, recalled after returning to the civility of

Not on African safari, but our neighborhood cat in

Owls in both North Carolina and South Africa ‘speak’ for

A brief story about a visiting cat, never seen by us before, who chose our house as his last resting place. We called the cat

A very true

We had been in Phuket, Thailand for a vacation some years previously. A year after the Asian tsunami, which brought so much damage to this part of the world, we

The power of Hurricane Katrina needs no

Not long before the powerful tsunami wreaked havoc in South-east Asia and the Indian Ocean, we visited The Maldives, a very long archipelago to the southwest of India. Discussions of climate change and global warming were taking place around the world, of course, but little was being done. Staying on an island whose highest point was only just above the waterline emphasized the fragile nature of the land-sea

The benign names given to hurricanes bely their

As a last contribution to this section, we are able to return from overseas visits to our special, peaceful home in safe natural surroundings in North Carolina. The house is ‘Sheffield Place’. The title of the poem is also reflective of another English City, Liverpool, where I lived and worked for 40 years; The ground of the soccer team Liverpool, FC is known as ‘Anfield’ and at the entrance to the stadium where opposing players step onto the field is the notice “This is