Black And White Wednesday and Wip Wednesday

This B&W Wednesday post was inspired by the rocks on Spiros Beach, as you know I love rock formations. The striations and weathering created by the sea on these beautiful flat rocks just had to be photographed.

My WIPs

This is my Aestlight Shawl off of Ravelry that I have been knitting. I have been wanting to knit a shawl for ages and this was the perfect one:) I love how the colours are knitting up:) The name of this sock yarn is called Agapanthus, a flower that is indigenous to South Africa and the colours really do represent the colours of the flower. This sock yarn was dyed by my wonderful friend Carle' from Nurturing Fibres, she has the most amazing sock and roving club on Ravelry and produces beautiful sock yarns and roving quarterly for the club. She also has an Etsy shop, Nurturing Fibres. She is such a talented dyer, I love her yarn!

Finally, I have blocked my Shalom Cardigan, it is so soft, I cannot wait to wear it, I just have to sew on the buttons and then it is finished!

Happy Wednesday to you all:)
xo
Linda

9!

Today is Caiden's 9th Birthday! I cannot believe how fast the time has flown. This is a photo of him when he was 4 and a half.

We adore you our sweet boy...

More Holiday Photos

There were so many photos from our road trip, so I decided to blog them over two days... 

Flowering Aloes were dotted all along the roadside as we travelled.

Swimming in the ocean on cloudy day.

The walkway at Southbroom beach.

Richard and Kye were building a sand castle fort.

There was a sand artist on Port Edward beach and he sculptured the most amazing creatures...

Oh YAY! We discovered the most divine river, hidden away in the Drakensburg. We all played there for hours, it was amazing fun:)

This is me walking up the river to the children.

It was truly beautiful...

A photo of the South African veld (bush, grasslands) with a lonely thorn tree in the middle on a hazy day. We noticed there had been plenty of veld fires down south where we travelled and the green shoots of grass were starting to peek through.

Richard and the boys, so sweet....

These are the last of our postcards from our road trip, such happy memories:)

Happy Monday,
xo
Linda

Postcards from our Road Trip...

We arrived home from the most amazing road trip we could have ever hoped for, this afternoon! It was truly splendid and I know our children and Richard and I, will remember it for years to come... We managed to break up the journey into quite a few stages, so that we didn't spend too much time driving, I think the longest stretch was a 5 hour drive from the Drakensburg to the Port Edward on the South Coast of Natal, South Africa. Kye really does not enjoy the car too much but he coped rather well this time:)

I have returned to the most wonderful Spring garden, the growth while we have been away has been tremendous. Blossoms everywhere, our Oak trees are GREEN! And our asparagus is over a metre high! Love it! I have started with the first load of laundry, there will be many as you can imagine... We had a lovely time... now for some photos...

The landscape on the road to the Drakensburg.

Early morning at Alpine Heath where we stayed for the first 3 days of our trip...

Port Edward Beach, Natal South Coast.

This is a Vervet monkey, there were so many at the resort where we were staying and they would visit us most mornings. This one is sitting on our balcony. They would just appear from nowhere out of the thick bush.

Jen, Erin and Caiden in the surf...

The first morning we were out at the beac at 6 30 am, it was amazing...

Fishermen...

I love photos of lighthouses...

This rock was beautiful, it has been turned into a bowl by the erosion of the sea water...
 

Some special reading time with dad, Kye brought with his favourite book by Jan Brett, The Mitten...

This was the last stop on our journey in the Midlands, Bellwood Cottages, it was a wonderful place, a working stud farm and trout farm. We had fun rowing on the dam in the canoes...

I have missed this space and I am so glad to be back, take care,
xo
Linda

Creative Friday

Hi everyone:)
I have missed this space so and all your lovely blogs...
Today is Creative Friday and we are still away on our road trip having a
wonderful time:) I am unable to put up a post for links today but please
post your links in the previous Creative Friday post (the post before this
one so all your amazing creativity can be shared this week.

Today we are setting off on our homeward journey to the Natal Midlands
and then on Sunday we will drive to our home. I have been posting postcards
on my Facebook page, I am there as Linda Dawkins.

xo Linda