Tag Archives: memories

New painting: The Messenger

Posted on: September 2, 2013

2009 – August 2013 I started this painting back in 2009…well, I say ‘started’ but really I just did the vaguest of backgrounds and then left the board to stand around gathering dust (and a shocking amount of cat fur…) … Continue reading →

Posted in Art
Tagged acrylic, art, aurora, birds, crow, dark, fantasy, girl, harbinger, lake, memories, message, messenger, mystery, night, nights, oil, outdoors, outside, painting, portrait, raven, sky, stars, surreal, weather, wind, winter

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West Coast daisies

Posted on: August 27, 2013

21 & 22 August 2013 An annual harbinger of Spring, the carpets of flowers that decorate the West Coast (usually from late July/August onward, depending on the weather) are really special, beautiful and always worth visiting. I spent some time … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, pretty things
Tagged annual event, beautiful, birds, cape town, childhood, favourites, flower, geelbek, kraalbaai, lagoon, landscape, langebaan, memories, nature, out in the country, outdoors, outside, plants & flowers, preekstool, roadtrip, saldanha, sea, spring, west coast, west coast national park

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2012: a year in (in-between) photos

Posted on: January 25, 2013

03 Jan – 31 Dec 2012 It took me longer than I thought it would to put this post together – seems there were a lot of photos I took last year that I never had the time to edit … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography
Tagged 2012, aftermath, animals, art, autumn, beach, birds, birthday, blouberg, cape town, cats, cbd, chris, christmas, city, clouds, company gardens, company's garden, drinking, end of the year, evenings, events, family, favourites, forest, freya, friends, garden, garden route, hammond, home, ixus, jasper, kira, kite, knysna, memorial, memories, mom, monzi, mountains, nature, new year, nostalgia, office, office humour, olivia, out and about, out in the country, outdoors, party, pets, photography, planes, plants & flowers, point and shoot, reflecting, sea, shackleton, sky, south africa, spring, summer, sunset, table mountain, trees, water, waterfront, weather, weekends, winter, winter days, work, year end, ysterplaat, ziggy

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Rainy day at the market (April 2012)

Posted on: January 11, 2013

Saturday 14 April 2012 I was going through my photos from the last 12 months to put together a post of some of the inbetweeners, when I came across these, taken in mid April. I don’t know why I never … Continue reading →

Posted in Milnerton Market, Out & about, Photography, Ramblings
Tagged april, cape town, games, junk, kids, market, memories, milnerton, milnerton market, mountains, nostalgia, people, photography, pontificating, post, postcards, ramblings, second hand, south africa, stories, toys, treasure, trees, vintage, weekends, winter days, writing

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Music : 2012 in review

Posted on: January 2, 2013

MUSIC Happy new year! Today marks my 6th anniversary of joining last.fm; I’m a graph junkie and love the listening stats the site generates, especially round this time of year when it makes compiling best-of-the-year lists easier. Lists of my favourite … Continue reading →