Travel – Page 15 – ABOUT ELEPHANTS

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Moon moon

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Cheryl Merrill

Day moon, night moon, moon moon. Day moon a pale button; night moon a lantern; moon moon a nursery rhyme, a fat, simple face in a blue, blue sky.

Moon so bright not even clouds can hide its face. Veiled, unveiled, moon climbing rungs on a ladder of clouds.

A punctuation point in an immense sky behind a flowing river of clouds.

An opalescent moon, rich with the memory of hot gases, bone-crushing weights, and stories of when the universe was new.

Moon stares through rippling clouds, stares with careful attention upon the earth.

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Your Daily Elephant

Posted on February 13, 2015 by Cheryl Merrill

A continuing photographic series. In your face. (But she was really just getting a good sniff at us.) Chobe National Park, Botswana.

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Your Daily Elephant

Posted on February 12, 2015 by Cheryl Merrill

A continuing series of photographs. I’m often asked, “how close do you get to elephants?” Well, sometimes this close. That’s my seat-mate’s hand in the lower corner. This is the Chobe River area of Chobe National Park, Botswana. Lovely grasses and rushes for the elephants to eat.

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Your Daily Elephant

Posted on February 11, 2015 by Cheryl Merrill

Can you tell this young mother is mad at us? Luckily, she went one way and we went the other. Savuti, Botswana.

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Your Daily Elephant

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Cheryl Merrill

A continuing photographic series. Always pack your lunch. Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana.

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Camouflage

Posted on February 8, 2015 by Cheryl Merrill

Camouflage is the art of hiding in plain sight. Of standing perfectly still, keeping silent, blending in, getting lost in the background, resembling something else. It’s an art practiced to conceal feelings, disguise intent, blind danger. Sometimes it’s a necessary skill for survival. Even elephants know how to disappear.

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Your Daily Elephant

Posted on February 7, 2015 by Cheryl Merrill

Continuing a series of photographs on elephants. Sunset in Etosha National Park, Namibia.

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Your Daily Elephant

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Cheryl Merrill

Continuing series of photographs of elephants. Big male, collared and studied by Ian Douglas-Hamilton in the Samburu area of Kenya. So handsome his name is Apollo.

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Doors

Posted on February 4, 2015 by Cheryl Merrill

A door closes behind me. Another one opens before me. My life: doors and side-doors, opening, closing, rooms I do not recognize, rooms that are familiar. Outdoors, indoors. Locked doors. Doors ajar. Double doors. Doors that squeak. Doors unhinged. Silent doors.

Latch, unlatch. Doors easy to open, doors impossible to shut. Solid doors, hollow doors. Doors that blow open, doors that slam shut.

Big doors. Small doors. Ornate doors, plain ones. Doors that open in. Doors that open out.

Yours is the door upon which I now knock. This day east of you, I would carry west, and lay upon your doorstep: a world without windows, without doors.