Georgia

Welcome to the first visitor from the 97th country: Cameroon!

Critter Day on the blog.

Two Guinea fowl - good eating, my Zimbabwean childhood remembers

Nodar de-hairing a pig the fast way

A scarab beetle, I believe, in central Svaneti - certainly bright gold enough to make jewelry from

Three Sets of Critters, Ushguli, Svaneti, June 2007

The cow and chickens were relatively quiet. But the goat kid, peeking out from its 2nd-storey window, more than made up for them with its insistent bleating. Perhaps it was crying for rescue from becoming table fare; or perhaps just insecure at the unfamiliar surroundings and lack of family. In any case, its location near the room where Jeff and I were staying made us quite aware of it, regularly.