ELEPHANTS
I went on a trip to Zimbabwe (Southern Africa - was formerly called Rhodesia) in the late 1990's before a lot of the problems came about (the underlying problems were there, just no major oppression and rampant chaos/inflation). One of the fun things I did was visiting a national wildlife park (Hwange - near Victoria Falls). A truly amazing event I saw was an elephants (actually there were three of them) eating leaves from trees. Our jeep was within 25 feet of these magnificent creatures (they are somewhat impervious to tourists if not much disturbed). I do have some photos of this trip somewhere. I must locate them for uploading.
I also visited the spectacular Victoria Falls and the architectural remains of the Great Zimbabwe (one of the world's great mysteries). I may do a post on the falls later on.
In today's scene I have tried to recreate an elephant from the basic shapes. I got the idea from an ad on TV that shows pipe-like figures pitching some drug (can't recall the company - really effective ad!!). So here it is.
I could have done a lot better but the idea is what I wanted to get across. This could be a writing exercise for a language arts class or a geography lesson involving places people visit.