A sudden turn, and the night scattered into silver.
The giraffe lifted its head from the water, sending a stream of droplets into the darkness. For one fleeting moment, they hung in the air like a constellation-tracing the graceful arc of its movement before falling back to earth.
A quiet sip transformed into a brief shower of stars.
Shompole, Kenya.
If the world can fly through the cosmos on the back of a giant turtle, I think it is plausible that a giraffe can bathe in splashes of starlight, and frankly, I wouldn’t have it any other way. 😄
Turtles all the way down, giraffes all the way up
Tough to beat a giraffe when it comes to going up!
Tough to beat up a giraffe without ganging up