Travel theme : Flowers

FLOWERS

Ailsa, what a wonderful challenge you gave us this week.

I tried to look at as many other bloggers postings of flowers as possible.

The one more beautiful than the other

As I am currently in South Africa, I decided to stick to local flowers

Story Challenge: Letter “D”

 

 

 

the weekly story challenge from frizz

This week the challenge has reached D.

When thinking of the letter D the first word that came into my mind:  DIFFERENCE

After living for 9 months in an European country, the DIFFERENCE in lifestyle between Europe and Africa is quite something I will have to get use to again.

In a nutshell:

The European efficiency is not available, but the sun is shining.

My wish is to have the best of both in one package. But that, for sure is only a DREAM

In Afrikaans we say : 

Oos wes

tuis Bes

 

 

 

 

Sunday Stills Adventures in Photography

TAKE TWO

Ed so kindly gave the option to choose any two topics from the older challenges

One sample he gave was flower and that is something I seldom pass with out taking a shot at it

FLOWERS

for the second one I scrolled a bit through all the older challenges and decided on a very recent one from last month

BROWN

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Movement

 

The weekly photo challenge from the Daily Post at WordPress

MOVEMENT 

 

This was a very experimental shot and I was quite pleased to see the end result

 

“SUNDAY POST : Silence”

Jakesprinter’s regular Sunday post this week has the theme

SILENCE

She maintains a silence that will last for ever

Travel theme: Night

Thank you Ailsa for the theme for this week

Night

The first photo’s were taken by my son when we were with them in Brugge

 

and then one of my own first trails on taking night shots

Sunday Stills: Winter Pictures

the challenge for Sunday stills this time is winter

Coming from South Africa where we have VERY hot summers and mild winters, it was a very special treat to experience this past European winter.

February 2012 in Interlaken

sunday post : VALUABLE

I copied this from Jakesprinter:

Precious, expensive, costly, priceless, important, dear having considerable monetary worth, costing or bringing a high price like a valuable painting, a valuable crop having qualities worthy of respect, admiration, or esteem: a valuable friend. or considerable use, service, or importance: valuable information. these are a few words how to define Valuable.

I experienced some very precious moments a few weeks ago on visiting the city Gent in Belgium.

A big part of the South-African population has ancestors from Europe.  The Dutch once governed over the Cape of Good Hope with a halfway station to the Far East situated there. There was the arrival of the French Huguenots and later under British ruling a group of British Settlers also arrived in this distant part of Africa. There are a huge variety surnames from different countries,  German, Portuguese, Greek,  French, English, Scottish  etc.

Unfortunately those people did not keep proper tract of our heritage, specially if you were of little importance. One of the few references I could get of my ancestors with my maiden name was the following:

They departed from Gent as  “domestiques” in the party of an affluent  gentleman named Jacques de Savoye on the 29^th of January 1688 on the ship Oosterlandt and reached their destination on the 25^th of April 1688.

That morning when I wandered through the historic part of Gent and realised that their feet might have fell on same places as mine, it became a very precious moment to me.