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fermentedphil (75)Fermented Philosophical Gardenerin HiveGarden • 3 days ago
Seedling Growth Giving New Hope and Finally Getting to the Spekboom Chutney | HiveGarden Journal
When life gives you lemons... make chutney A week or so ago, I wrote about the aftermath of a wind-storm we experienced that caused so much damage. Luckily, I did not…
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fermentedphil (75)in Pinmapple • 7 days ago
"Paris in Africa": Visiting the Artistic Town of Parys in the Free State, South Africa
South African town names are still somewhat obsessed with European town names. So many towns are named after some European town, a historical figure's name, or something along…
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fermentedphil (75)Fermented Philosophical Gardenerin HiveGarden • 10 days ago
Picking Up the Scraps After the Wind-Storm | HiveGarden Journal
The wind has a mysterious component to it; we can only hear its effects, we can only see its destruction; we can only feel its touch; but we can never see the wind itself.…
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fermentedphil (75)in Photography Lovers • 12 days ago
Girl with a Pearl Bracelet - A Series of Photographs
vermeer crossed out the lines depicting the girl with a pearl bracelet her brown hair and eyes too deep for his understanding for now she walks in my dreams as the one…
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fermentedphil (75)in BEER • 14 days ago
A Special Birthday Beer: Devil's Peak King's Blockhouse IPA and a Continual and Yearly Story
Celebrating my birthday with Devil's Peak Kings's Blockhouse IPA It has been a yearly tradition for more than 5 years now. Every 6th of April, I buy myself a…
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fermentedphil (75)Fermented Philosophical Gardenerin HiveGarden • 15 days ago
Leaving the Garden to Die, Only to Find Abundance - A HIveGarden Journal and Garden Update
Death breathes new life into what does not yet exist. At then end of 2023, I posted a HiveGarden update in which I literally cleared the garden at my girlfriend's place.…
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fermentedphil (75)in Foodies Bee Hive • 16 days ago
Festival of Leafy Greens and Burnt Onions - A Dish Using the Last of the Summer Greens
summer leafy greens; parmesan; lemon zest; burnt onion; olive oil The summer is ending and the winter is approaching. We are in autumn, the liminal space between…
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fermentedphil (75)in Photography Lovers • 18 days ago
A Chair Walks into a Café and Orders a Glass of Wine - Interior Photography
Sometimes as a photographer, you are blessed with perfect lighting. Art then merely follows. In rare unplanned and spur of the moments, when the lighting is…
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fermentedphil (75)in Feathered Friends • 19 days ago
The Magnificent Red-winged Starling
The older I get, the more I appreciate the beauty found in nature. It is a funny thing really, the closer you look, the more things you find that are worthy of contemplation. The…
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fermentedphil (75)in Pinmapple • 21 days ago
Wild Africa in Our Backyards: Visiting a Game Reserve Outside of Town, Krugersdorp, Gauteng, South Africa
People outside of (South) Africa still sometimes think that wildlife roam the streets, with lions being pets of some sort. In some sense, this is true. In Gauteng, you are always…
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fermentedphil (75)in #photography • 23 days ago
Returning Home: Nostalgic Thoughts While Playing Golf
Returning home induces a strange feeling, nostalgia, pathos. I returned to my hometown, the place where I grew up, where I spent my formative years. I visited my…
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fermentedphil (75)in Pinmapple • 27 days ago
Dining Underneath a Cursed Painting in Pretoria, South Africa: A Photographer's Paradise
The haunted painting never burns down, even though everything beside it has been turned to ashes There is a small sanctuary of paintings, one which I think is a…
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fermentedphil (75)in BEER • 28 days ago
A Beer With a Special Story - Darling Brew Warlord Imperial IPA
Certain beers are more than just the beer; they contain a special hidden story. I stumbled upon this beer a long time ago at a local liquor shop. At that time, I…
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fermentedphil (75)in #golf • last month
“Change is as Good as a Holiday, They Say” - Philosophical Life Lessons From Golf
We get so stuck and used to our daily routine as humans. There is a strange sense of security to it. Change and difference is seen as something threatening, something that breaks…
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fermentedphil (75)Fermented Philosophical Gardenerin HiveGarden • last month
The Return of the Gooseberry and a Last Basil Harvest
It seems that I am not running out of basil. How strange this place where we have an abundance, not knowing what to do with it all. One can only eat so much basil pesto before…
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fermentedphil (75)in The Herbal Hive • last month
Preserving Flowers that Smell of Honey (Garlic Chive Blossoms)
The problem with true abundance is that we rarely know what to do with all that we harvested. Two or so years ago, I wrote about the flowers of the garlic chive…
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fermentedphil (75)in Hive Book Club • last month
The Spectacular Failure of Philosophy Novels/Fiction: A Kind of Multiple Book Review
When I was in high school many years ago, I picked up a book without knowing what it was about. In fact, we had a bookshop that sold books by the bag, so you could basically just…
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fermentedphil (75)in Pinmapple • last month
Where Heaven and Earth Mix - Visiting the Dylan Lewis Sculpture Garden/Park and Studio, Stellenbosch, South Africa
There exists a space where poets go to write about the mixture of heaven and earth, material and spiritual. There is a playground where artists come to bathe in the presence of…
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fermentedphil (75)in Photography Lovers • last month
"Rosemary and Denim Nostalgia": Photographs of a Girl
it was a rosemary and denim-type day nostalgia in the air and dirty feet a youthful suspense and memories that clung to our skins it was a rosemary and denim-type day on…
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fermentedphil (75)in Photography Lovers • 2 months ago
The Most Beautiful and Colorful Sunbird
The little bird looks like a little gem flying. Their colours are like gems, blue, ruby, red, and golden. I am familiar with their calls and as soon as I hear them in the…
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