Is this just a cold snap or is it something more permanent

The shadows are lengthening, the sun is lower in the sky, it’s almost July again and there is a chill in the air, which gets to you in more ways than one, yes it’s cold, but there is a different chill to those who are really feeling it!

Warily, perhaps, I glance out of the studio window looking at the beautiful light, but there is a subconscious feeling that something is fading, coming close to inevitable change. It is true to say, the one thing we can be truly sure of, nothing will stay the same. Perhaps it’s our own subconscious, unspoken belief in immortality or the fact that we never wake up expecting not to be here, but paradoxically we know that nothing is permanent.

I know there are some major events taking place locally at the moment, my country is having a tough time, I feel deep within me the echoes of the gunshots in the valley as more and more of our Elephants die to the poachers guns. 
Whilst I marvel at the efforts of individuals in this battle for conservation, simultaneously I am deeply scarred by the lack of understanding by "world authorities" when it comes to getting behind local knowledge. It seems that the "authorities that can" are not really interested and are too busy manipulating events to sensationalize and underline their own indispensability,

Winter is definitely here, but it’s a winter with a difference, one for mankind that we will never come back from if we don’t start reacting correctly and behaving responsibly about Nature.

Time is not on our side! We have the means, but perhaps not the willpower to keep out the "cold".

Take a walk where the animals walk, feel the air and take in the sensations of Africa, at this rate it won’t be here for long!
Listen, the drums are beating.

Will Maberly Art