Saturday, February 7, 2009

Mountain Views .... From My Garden

A view of Mt. Meru (Africa's 5th highest mountain) early one morning a few weeks ago. Mt. Meru is 4566 metres in height (14980 feet) & last erupted in 1910. Some mornings she is completley covered in cloud & you wouldn't even know that there was a mountain underneath it all ! (One of the reasons why I won't fly in light aircraft anymore !)

Mt. Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain and rises to 5895 metres (19340 feet). If I edit this photo and lighten it, then you can't see the top of her - so I've just left it. Can you see her peeking out of the fluffy, white clouds ? (This photo was taken from our back garden last week in the early evening.)

Just to give you an idea (one more, lightening the photo means that you can't see the mountain) of the location of Kilimanjaro from where our house is - here is a photo showing our back fence and the tops of the banana trees that form a sort of boundary before that. This is where our washing line is situated - I don't think we could ask for a nicer view when hanging out the washing !