music and tall trees and Paarl- splendour

♥

Cape Philharmonic Orchestra

Nederburg

 

If music is the rhythm of the soul, what better way to celebrate
the start of 2013 than with top-class live entertainment
under starry Paarl skies?

Dirk and Sophia gathered us to transition into next year at Nederburg’s New Year’s Eve Spectacular!

Melanie Sholtz, Salin Kagee, Heavenly Quartez, Derik Ellis, etc.
♥

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blessed

Blessed are they

who see beautiful things in humble places

where other people

see nothing.

 

Camille Pissarro.

 

♥

29th Dec 2012

The art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go
and holding on


H Ellis.

 

bit of nostalgia... bit of Cohen...

 

“And I'll dance with you in Vienna,
I'll be wearing a river's disguise.
The hyacinth wild on my shoulder
my mouth on the dew of your thighs.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
with the photographs there and the moss.
And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,
my cheap violin and my cross.”


Leonard Cohen

eindes

27ste Desember.

 

 

Kersfees Klaar

♥

Einde van vakansie kruip nader...

Soos Abby die ganse en eende bekruip...

Einde en Afsluit

Toemaak en opmaak

 

26 December 2012

Indlovu, Mpumalanga.

"... en Hy lê my neer by waters waar daar vrede is."

Christmas-abundance

i love my new dog!

i love colour

and Christmas

and cherries

and cheer

Two wings

Two wings lift a person up

from earthly concerns:

simplicity

in intention

and

purity in feeling

 

Thomas Kempis.

Abby-lief.

22 Dec 2012

more Abby-fun

♥                                                ♥

Abby kom!

eerste ontmoeting

ooievaar het gekom!! ( uit Centurion )

 

 

 

eerste oomblikke

♥

Abby

Welsh Terrier

ons liefie

 

♥

19 Desember 2012

 

Maak jou hart reg

Maak plek

vir nuwe verwondering

Verlossing

in die vorm van die

God-Mens

Jesus

 

 

♥

 

 

 

Krieket

Gerrit sny gras

sny hartjie

vir Santie

♥

Kersfees en Familie en Lering

 

Kersfees

gesels

Nabyfees

 

 

Lig en Lewe

♥

 

Mpumalanga en donderstorms

hitte

groen vallei

Olifants Rivier

 

liefde

pap + wors

omgee

donderweer

 

 

tiptol - voëltjies

likkewaan

helder maan

♥

 

vakansie dag - vlieg dag

yippeee.....

vlieg na my skoonfamilie

Santie en Gerrit

 op Presidentsrus,

Mpumalanga.

 

 

 

♥

 

 

 

pa en seun spuit gif vir die hyacinth.

 

♥

 

 

doop Do0P D00p dOOp

Doop.

Klein Jan- Andries du Toit

Gedoop in NG Kerk Kenridge.

 

Die water van lewe

sprinkel

dompel

 

 

doop-belofte

bekragtig

♥

 

 

Alle sterkte en toewyding aan

Adri en Jan- Andries kom

kleinding groot te maak

sodat hy in Jesus se voetspore kan loop.

♥

 

 

 

Friday friendliness

holiday

♥

 

 have scarcely left you
When you go in me, crystalline,
Or trembling,
Or uneasy, wounded by me
Or overwhelmed with love, as
when your eyes
Close upon the gift of life
That without cease I give you.

P Neruda

amper daar

 

ek het daardie tv- beeld in my kop

van die "Comrades" se laaste draai

en die kamera-man staan hier

by die eindlyn

en neem daardie laaste tree af

 

quiet and joyful.

 

time for joy

time for taking it slowly

time for thinking pretty thoughts

time for cherishing friends' influence and footptint on your heart.

♥

you make it better.

you still do.

♥

Sante Simply Sensual Spa

aaahh

♥

the Good life

the spoilt life

and the fine life

treatments.

friends

bubbly

laughs.

Maandag - mooi

Kersfees kom

en daar is 'n plekkie vir mooi gedigte,

mooi musiek en fynprower kossies.

♥

person of the week: Zanne Stapelberg

she has a golden voice

Zanne Stapelberg

 

 

♥

and a heart that glitters with diamonds

she has a Christmas sparkle that

never fades

and carries sound straight to your

heart.

♥

Sy het die gehoor in vervoering gehad,

Paarl Liquifruit- amfiteater

 "Klassieke Kersfees"

saam met Jannie Moolman en die

Kaapse Filharmoniese Orkes en die

Ghugulethu tenore.

♪

 

 

don't be a reservoir

be a channel / river... let the blessings flow through you.

♥

 

 

Party time...

in the older days it was so beautifully put:

'the pleasure of your company is requested....'

 

graceful and refined.

so: festive time calls for friends to toast to good times,

for neglected bonds to be rekindled

and for the warm glow of appreciation to radiate between us

like aura's talking in the

language of light.

♥

party. that is making an RCS-moment count!

RCS year end party .

epic.

amen

Amen

Peace on the farms

Puppy on the way

Zurich friends hoiday alignment with Swanies'

Christmas Spirit

Joy

 

♥

plaas en plaas hulle hul maniere

plaas

koeie

vrugte

vrede

gebedsverhoring

 

new blog discovered: Roses and Rust

Vivez Bien * Live Well

This is Sharon's blog and her motto.

Live Well. perfectly summed up.

♥

Roses and Rust

She is from Cape town and has such wonderfully elegant taste.

she did a recent study of a local home.

... mmm... amazing mood.

 

♥                                               ♥                                                                                    ♥

person of the week: Flowerheart - owner.

 

 

The ultimate cutest florist and her husband dreamt up this little piece of flower-heaven...
The bud of Durbanville...
The Heart of appreciation and beauty: GO and Visit Flowerheart.
♥
Contact them via:
Email flowerheart@telkomsa.net
Phone 021 976 6910
Fax 021 976 8796
Physical Address
3 Chenoweth Street
Durbanville
Shop Opening Hours
Monday to Friday 09:00 - 17:30
Saturdays 09:00 - 13:00

♥
she wins it for turning an old building in an "industrial" corner of Durbanville into a vintage chic floral paradise.

happiness is.... a warm puppy

 

and a soft grey palette

rose uit Ethiopië

Poetry by Jane Hirshfield

The Task

 

It is a simple garment, this slipped-on world.
We wake into it daily -- open eyes, braid hair --
a robe unfurled
in rose-silk flowering, then laid bare.

And yes, it is a simple enough task
we've taken on,
though also vast:
from dusk to dawn,

from dawn to dusk, to praise, and not
be blinded by the praising.
To lie like a cat in hot
sun, fur fully blazing,

and dream the mouse;
and to keep too the mouse's patient, waking watch
within the deep rooms of the house,
where the leaf-flocked

sunlight never reaches, but the earth still blooms.

JH.

en Hy dek Sy Tafel(berg) met 'n wolkdoek

Groot en Mooi en Heilig

Begin en Einde

Lig en Lig

Alles

Rus

my Skepper

♥

some pearls

some pearls are handed to you

once you have a grazed knee...