After many amazing adventures in Kenya Africa we are now back in Texas. Africa is NOT what you see on TV. Africa is a place of wild creatures and mysterious landscapes. It is a place where your imagination runs wild in the darkness of night surrounded by bewildering and terrifying sounds. It is a paradise. It is
an enigma. It is beauty and soothing but also harsh and brutal. It is the cradle of animal life.
I imagined while watching great herds of elephants, Cape buffalo, zebra, impala, giraffe, and oryx followed by hyena, lions and leopard, that this is what America could have been. I envisioned our wild landscape of vast herds of bison, pronghorn antelope, elk, deer, moose, followed by our north american predators wolves, bear, mountain lions. We realized all this too late. We butchered our wildlife heritage and decimated our native americans. Africa has saved millions of acres of their natural landscape and their wildlife heritage lives free while their people revere and do not kill their precious animals.
We visited with Maisai warriors and their people in villages and they live the same way they have for centuries, eating only beef, goat, milk and the cattle's blood. They do not kill wildlife. They are a proud people who cling to their system of life. They are impressive and vastly so different from us. After downloading today 1304 photos from our trip I have reference photos of African animals for a long time.
My first copy of my newest book of art, PAINTED JUNGLES has arrived, and I am very proud that it is the most comprehensive representation of my animal art.
an enigma. It is beauty and soothing but also harsh and brutal. It is the cradle of animal life.
I imagined while watching great herds of elephants, Cape buffalo, zebra, impala, giraffe, and oryx followed by hyena, lions and leopard, that this is what America could have been. I envisioned our wild landscape of vast herds of bison, pronghorn antelope, elk, deer, moose, followed by our north american predators wolves, bear, mountain lions. We realized all this too late. We butchered our wildlife heritage and decimated our native americans. Africa has saved millions of acres of their natural landscape and their wildlife heritage lives free while their people revere and do not kill their precious animals.
We visited with Maisai warriors and their people in villages and they live the same way they have for centuries, eating only beef, goat, milk and the cattle's blood. They do not kill wildlife. They are a proud people who cling to their system of life. They are impressive and vastly so different from us. After downloading today 1304 photos from our trip I have reference photos of African animals for a long time.
My first copy of my newest book of art, PAINTED JUNGLES has arrived, and I am very proud that it is the most comprehensive representation of my animal art.
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