Reminiscence #2

<center Sadly I wasn’t chanced today and couldn’t draw. To cover up I decided to make another post in some of my adventures just a glimpse of them . I started this post with an eye, an eye I drew sometime in September last year. While editing it though, I fell in love with the idea of it representing Smaug even though it is not his . It wasn’t till I was making the post that I remembered his conversation with Bilbo after being told that the legends fell short of his appearance. My favorite part is “my teeth is…… my body is…….. my wing is……and my breath death” . And when he left the mountain in the recent Desolation movie and said; “I am fire, I am death” and Bilbo sighed “what have we done” , my heart melted especially with Ed Sheeran’s guitar line 🥳. Above is a shot I took with my little friend. He is the son of an extended family member and usually stays at my Uncle’s place after scho…

Above is the inner court There was a museum in the palace and we decided to stop by and see what they had.

This man was giving us a tour around the different palaces in the court as well as telling us the meaning and significance of the carvings around the place. I’ll probably make a post on that later. Then we went to a place called the drum palace. There were so many instruments there and I learnt a lot of things about my mother's people and language. It was there that I fully understood some of the things about her language that I’d been struggling to grasp since I was a kid. And I came to find that his story telling and practical approach helped me with this. Here I felt like a griot 😁. We then moved in to a sacred site and this was at the entrance. It was sculpted by Susanne Wenger and upon seeing it, I decided to capture it.

Here I was at a part of the sacred site and the bridge I was standing on was constructed in the 1930s. The design allowed it to swing and as soon as my colleague felt it moving, most of them scram 😅, giving me this shot. Albeit, the camera guy didn’t do justice to it the way I did for him. Anyways, we move on. This was the step to a waterfall between a mountain. Those men you see are drumming for money. We didn’t give them much though cause our heart was set on the hike and the setting was not the kind of place for dancing. This is a clean shot I got of the waterfall. We met this guy there doing a kind of kung fu-inner peace thing like Shifu and I took a shot. And this my friends was when I was at the exhibition 🥲 If you made it to this point and read everything, I sincerely appreciate you my friend, see you tomorrow . </center