She has very smooth ears, don’t you think? A well proportioned, if a tad round, elephant. Thembi is an enthusiastic eater.
Your Daily Elephant: Portrait of Thembi
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Your Daily Elephant: Belly Hair
While we’re on the subject of elephant hair:
Your Daily Elephant
Eating with enthusiasm, burying herself in her food.
Your Daily Elephant: A Stray Hair
A stray hair against a blue sky, the tips of eyelashes, hair around tusk, and on trunk. Wiry hair, soft hair. African elephants are surprisingly hairy, especially when you’re this close.
Your Daily Elephant
Hello, it’s Monday. Ever wondered what the underside of an elephant’s trunk looks like? See the grass stains?
Your Daily Elephant: An Excerpt from my Book
Morula stands square on, keeping her eyes upon me. Her cobbled forehead broadens from her nose upward in a triangular shape. The top of a tree is visible over her right shoulder, as if she has a giant nosegay tucked behind her ear. Short bristles like an old man’s buzz cut outline the top of her head.
Because of the way she’s standing, ears flattened against her shoulders, Morula seems slim, her skull almost hollow. The tip of her trunk flops over itself in a loose coil and points down like a curved arrow. It begins to twitch in an irregular rhythm. I take the lens cap from my camera and glimpse a tiny reflection of myself in its mirror. Is this what she sees – another one of those small humans, with its odd upright stature? Does she see details: my hat, my camera, my idiotic grin?
I take a goofy photograph of Morula – it will look like she’s bored and playing with the only thing at hand – her trunk.
Your Daily Elephant: A Matter of Perspective
Perspective is the way you see things. Color vs. black-and-white. Or elephant-sized vs. human-sized.
Your Daily Elephant
Is going camping again. Hey, it’s summer. Elephants like to camp out. In the meantime, Jabu is going to watch over you once again.
Your Daily Elephant
Towering over me.
Your Daily Elephant
Palm tree with elephant.
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