May 1st 2018
Dawn over the Buffalo River on our last morning here at Rorkes Drift. Does the shape remind you of anything?
Buffalo River
On our way to Cathedral Peak, we stopped off at another battlefield, this time from the Boer War, the Spioenkop Battlefield, where it seems that tactics went awry and many young men, many of them teenagers, were killed right there in the shallow trenches that they were able to dig and they lie where they fell. The futility of war again touched our hearts. 
How those parents must have grieved; this stone being the only one set by a young soldier’s family. I found this very moving.
utesmile
May 4, 2018 at 6:06 am
Yes definitely England with the Cornwall, perfect shape!
mybeautfulthings
May 4, 2018 at 6:23 am
🙂 xx
Heyjude
May 3, 2018 at 10:08 pm
Definitely England! And yes, war memorials are so very poignant.
mybeautfulthings
May 4, 2018 at 4:49 am
That’s what we saw too! And…. with Cornwall, so often ignored by the weather forecasters! 🙂
Heyjude
May 4, 2018 at 11:47 am
Yes! They love to stand with their arms in front of the county, which stops at Plymouth it seems 😀
pendantry
May 3, 2018 at 7:56 pm
Your photo of Buffalo River looks to me like England.
mybeautfulthings
May 4, 2018 at 4:49 am
Me too – somehow very pleasing from so far away. 🙂
nrhatch
May 3, 2018 at 7:37 pm
It looks like a bust in profile . . . facing to the left.
With a little goatee.
Wearing a tiny monkey sized cap.
mybeautfulthings
May 4, 2018 at 4:50 am
Ha! I can see that now! 🙂
-calvin
May 3, 2018 at 7:27 pm
Futile, indeed. And yet dawns light bleeds eternal optimism.
mybeautfulthings
May 4, 2018 at 4:51 am
Yes, dawn…. hope for the world in the constancy of the rising sun. Thank you for your uplifting thoughts. 🙂