The Carnival of the Animals: AViArY


Saint Saëns: The Lion


Saint Saëns´ The ElephanT


The Swan or the Ugly DuckLing by Camille Saint Saëns


Carnival of the Animals: Fantasia 2000



Carnival of the Animals-Fossils: Sir CenTipEde


Mickey Mouse: The Karnival Kid


HAve a LAugh this CARNIVAL!

"Doctor, doctor, what can I do, my little boy has swallowed my pen?"
"Use a pencil until I get there."

"Doctor, doctor I keep thinking I´m invisible".
"Who said that?"

"Doctor, doctor I keep seeing little black spots before my eyes.
"Have you seen a doctor before'"
"No, just little black spots."

The Cookie Carnival



Mardi Gras: Louisiana (USA)


Mardi Gras Day is always 47 days before Easter Sunday and Fat Tuesday is always the day before Ash Wednesday.

New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians named themselves after the native people of North America, to pay them respect for their help in escaping slavery; often Indians accepted slaves into their society when they made a break for freedom. 

Cape Town MinstreL CaRniVaL

The KLOPSE (clubs) or Kaapse Klopse takes place on the 2nd of January. 
Participants are typically from Afrikaan speaking working class "coloured" or mixed race families who have preserved this tradition since the mid-19th century.


The minstrel show, or minstrelsy, was an American entertainment consisting of music, comic and variety acts and  dancing performed by white people in a blackface or, especially after the USA Civil Warblack people in blackface?!
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How OLD are yoU?


The "Carrion" flower

"Carrion" means dead or rotting flesh!
Orbea variegata
O. variegata
 It originally comes from the winter rainfall area of the Western Cape mainly along the coastal belt. It grows actively during Winter and Spring.
O. ubomboensis
Orbea ubomboensis 
O.melanantha
 Orbea melanantha 
O. elegans
Orbea elegans Plowes is the most recently described species and it´s listed as Critically Endangered.
O. namaquensis
Orbea namaquensis. It´s restricted to Namaqualand in the northwestern corner of South Africa. 

WhY MoSquitOes Buzz in PEoPLe´s EaRs


NationaL Geographic Traveler: Southern Africa


RoaLd DahL´s Revolting Rhymes