late afternoon mid summer, the sun goes low and filters through the atmosphere side-on and through more of it, less of the shorter wavelength colours make it then. those harvested wheat fields are yellow ok, but in this light now they turn positively golden. to think that this area was called the swartland (eng black land) by van riebeeck's colonists, after the blackish colour of the renosterveld fynbos

on the coast the summer south easterly must be howling to kick up those cloud forming waves above the mountains. like the high standing wave behind an protrusion in a water stream, air gets similarly pushed up high in strong winds and as hangglider pilots we dream of catching this 'wave lift' to higher and further places. here the air got pushed through the condensation level where it is cold enough for water vapour to form droplets and clouds