In Cape Town we are very fortunate to be able to witness wondrous Autumn and Winter sunrises. This morning when I woke up (way too early to be healthy) the sky was ablaze with purple, orange, pink and grey.
Inspired to take a picture I decided to have my coveted and beloved coffee first.
(I could write sonnets to my morning cup of coffee and apparently Mother Nature's artwork was not going to stop me!)
As I turned around to walk back to my bedroom, I looked out of the window and…it was gone; so quickly that it might never have been there. But I knew it was, I'd seen it.
and so it often is with life:
Blink and the moment has passed. Live! Live! that sunrise seemed to say. Love! Love! while the moment is in your fragile but immensely powerful grasp!
Here instead are some taken last winter:
(the first seems to have blurred when i made it smaller, but doesn't it look like the sky is on fire? the other two are taken from my front porch.)
Nature is so good at reminders.
Have a lovely weekend everybody! I am off for a long walk on Scarborough Beach tommorrow.
love
Capegirl
p.s. my blog is still very squirrelly, I can't get pages to update and have to wriggle my way into the comments via the archives, so sorry about comments to previous posts that I promised to answer and can't or at least not without going prematurely grey.
You are right, those precious moments come and go so fast. Those are some lovely photos and have a great weekend too Michelle :yes:
on saturday afternoon the weather turned Cape Town Evil. so fast, so cruel! so the beach trip was necessarily short! such biting wind! does snuggling up in bed all sunday count as precious moments? they sure do! hope you had a great weekend too!
Sorry to hear that your trip got cut short because of the weather 🙁 Next time Mother Nature will cooperate 🙂 Snuggling up in bed all Sunday is definetly a precious moment, especially with the right person ;)I did have a good weekend. Was out late hanging out with some friends. Had a good time, but didn’t get back here until after 1:00 AM, then had to be at work at 7 AM this morning, then had class after work :faint: Except for the stupid mosquito bites on my arms, it was a good time 🙂 Hugs 🙂
Oh, this sort of thing is typical of the quick changes in Cape Town, We’re a “four seasons in one day” sort of city, often. Oh no, mosquitoes, yes they’re a plague here in the summer and apparently the winter too, now. they are not my friend, since I am allergic to these little biting one man armies. what classes do you attend?
Wow, that’s some crazy weather you guys get sometimes. Many places are like that too. I hate stupid mosquitoes too :yuck: The only good mosquito is a dead mosquito. I’m taking a Bioworks class this summer, then start taking Environmental Health & Safety classes this fall. Getting some edumacation under my belt 😀
I thought the only good mosquito was an extinct mosquito!? good for you. what is bioworks?
I like your answer better 😆 Bioworks trains people to work in companies that make products such as: biofuels, antibiotics, asthma inhalers, cosmetics, deodorants, detergents, plastics, vitamins, etc. It encompasses math, chemistry and biology, so wish me luck 🙂
hhmmmm…some names here I used to know :DA big “thanks!”, for sharing such wonderful photos. Excellent!Loku :up:
Good Luck Marcus 🙂 May you math your way to success!Hi Loku! Thanks, they’re not great pics, just good memories!
There’s something very sacred about the twilight sky. Many a time has it made me stop and pause. You are right, it is speaking to us.
yes, many things are speaking to us yet i feel we have lost our natural instinct for listening in some sense. or rather it’s in need of tuning.i have the flu folks, so I might be a bit quiet for a while between that and work. clearly running around in the rain is not a good idea. or at least it hasn’t great side-effects.
Hi CapeGirlBeautiful photos! I know all about missing the perfect moment for a photograph. I wish sometimes that we could actually have cameras built into our eyes – imagine all the hotties we could photograph then? 😆 I kid! I kid!You know I have never been to Scarborough – I have always passed it on the way back from Cape Point but have never stopped over there. Strange to think that I was in Cape Town for so long and still didn’t get to see all the places :(Hope you are doing well :)Love, JCL.
I do wish you a speedy recovery from the flu and hope to see you back here soon Michelle 🙂
Hi, You love coffee so do I, that makes us coffee friends,I get fresh coffee from the hills of the Island ofPuerto Rico in the carribean, where I was born, our familystill grows and mill coffee there. Just to let you knowthere are many like you and me. bye and Regards.
Gorgeous photos! :yes:
where u live is really beautiful u are so lucky