Milky Way

Its Easter Sunday, the holiest of calendar days. It is the most perfect night, a cool breeze, I stare into the milky way above me. I feel minute and at peace with everything - I could not want more or less this very second. I thank Him for my life and where I am right this moment.

Amazing Photography

Photographer Bence Máté snapped this amazing shot in Costa Rica. He writes, “I was photographing hummingbirds when I heard the sharp, alarming noise of the birds reacting to the presence of a predator. Sixty feet away from me this green-crowned brilliant was fearlessly attacking a small viper. The long shutter speed and shallow depth of field made it difficult to make an image with both animals sharp. This encounter was one of the most interesting ones I had ever seen, and I quickly set up two flashes to increase the light and shutter speed, using one flash fired from the background and another from the camera.

This image was among the winners of the 2010 Nature’s Best Photography Competition. It and other winners will be on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. starting in April. From cubeme.com

Giraffe Manor

Giraffe Manor is a small hotel in the Lang’ata suburb of Nairobi, Kenya. Together with its related Giraffe Centre, serves as a home to several endangered Rothschild giraffes, as well as operating a breeding program which reintroduces breeding pairs back into the wild. The Giraffe Manor is surrounded by 140 acres of indigenous forest just outside Kenya’s capital, Nairobi. It is home to giraffe and many species of birds, large families of warthogs and the elusive Bush Buck. The Giraffe Manor offers five double bedrooms, immaculately furnished in the style of their day, with large four-poster beds, antique furnishings and striking art deco bathrooms. Each of the six luxury rooms offer en suite facilities, and sumptuous surroundings. Guests enjoy evening cocktails in front of the fireplace before a delicious gourmet dinner. Article off cubeme.com.

Beautitude

Love this word, beautitude.

Book Reviews

A sneak peak of two books to be released next month. Cannot wait to review both of them.

Oriental Concoction

Had dinner with my lovely 'sister' tonight - she made us an amazing roast chicken with a peanut butter, soy sauce and coconut sauce, with chopped green beans, mushrooms and pistachio nuts together with fries and a side salad all topped off with coriander (my favourite). Wow what an amazing infusion of smell and taste - I give it 10 out of 10!

SURPRISE

I bought this for my love - I cannot wait to give it to him for his Birthday... A few short days left - Hurry!

Vida e cafe

Its a beautiful autumn day, buzzing with life, and jazz music - my favourite :) it could not get better than this besides the coffee I'm about to order :) hmmmm

Architectural Fruit

Had an amazing Friday with my lecturers whom I now work for. Was drawing up plans of a house that we were going to present to a client in a few hours... The hunger inside me has now erupted.

Le Corbusier

I love this!

Back door Boutique

Magical Boven - I love you!

Alzu

A map of the N4 toll route, a route that stretches through vast picturesque landscapes and 4 countries of Southern Africa.

Paved hell

The new boulevard of The Zone, Rosebank, it may look attractive, and it is to a certain extent, however I think could the landscape architect not have been a little more creative with this design of paving nightmare?

Barrabas

'God is not vengeance, God is love. His only form of punishment is to make someone who interrupts a work of love continue it.' - The Pilgrimage, P. Coelho

Sin...

My biggest sin, if you can call it that, is a good cup of filter coffee and a slice of the most delicious cake!

Purrdy

I just love cats, especially all the different positions they find themselves in.

Leaf

Dried leaves drifting across the sky, evocative of the approaching autumn.

Beans About Coffee

A stunning coffee bar in Dullstroom, where you could go "beans" about the coffee they have! Just the smell is orgasmic enough!

Creepy-crawlies

A rain spider from the last of the summer rains lurks in the shadows of our ceiling fan, which probably is the cause of why I haven't slept well in the past 2 nights... Clearly the both of us are scared - for the coming dry winter months.

Mantis

The Koi-San consider Praying Mantis' to be a sign of good luck - so do I!

Cacti Garden

My ultimate obsession and lover of all time - cacti and succulents.

Travel-dravel

Drive's home back west, makes for moodyness on the horizon and in my heart...

Autumn Sunsets

There is nothing I LOVE more than autumn sunsets. There is nothing else like them here on earth - Africa, I love you.

Waterval Onder

Waterval Onder means below the waterfall and this is one of my favourite spots, together with my obsession of trains and loosing myself in wondering the uneven course tracks awaiting ahead of me.

Supernatural

Driving up the Elands River beauty surrounds us everywhere, including this amazing cloud formation.