worth a thousand

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oh so blah

Lol...the blahs are what I usually do when I draft a blog post.

I upload the pics first, making sure there's space for the text which comes later. But this morning I feel like I should leave it in.

It's not that the morning at the Helderberg Nature Reserve was blah in a boring way. Absolutely not! The air was crisp and filled with chirping birds and ribbitting frogs and it was bucolic and lovely.

It's just that despite all the prettiness I couldn't get into any kind of photo groove. It doesn't help that I'm not into taking pics of flowers...or mountains and lakes. I stalked a few toddlers with their grannies but the savvy grans soon cottoned on and whipped their charges off to get milkshakes at the restaurant.

 

And school starts on Monday.

Blah. Bleh. 

three weaknesses

I missed an opportunity to have lunch in Stellenbosch with Sam and Tina on Wednesday thanks to a kaput ignition module (sigh) but we caught up on Thursday which was so wonderful.

So much to talk about, so little time....but at least they got to meet the little shits!

Sam gave me a bag of the most divine handmade chocs from Huguenot Chocolates (I'm assuming, Sam, correct me if I'm wrong!)- in Franschhoek, and kept some for a bit of a photo shoot yesterday.

So I set everything up, took a few test pics, poured the espresso...took some leisurely sips and shots thinking.."Hmm, this is the life" when all of a sudden I realised the chocolates were melting!  

So I put the camera down, licked the melted gooiness off the cup, saucer and fingers and polished the lot off.

Hmmm...thanks Sam!

I couldn't get Stellies out my head though, so on Thursday my mom and I went through and wandered the streets, taking photos of doorways and people and the shadows of bare oak trees stretched across the old historic buildings. Have a mentioned how much I love that town? 

 

  

  

  

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