Week 19 - Outdoors

Mariette chose the theme this week - and normally living where I do, I would have been able to take a million photos of the outdoors...At this time of year South Africa is "normally" beuatiful, hot (very hot), sunny, blue skies and just lovely for taking Outdoors photos - we are not called Sunny South Africa for nothing....BUT this week has not been normal - We have had very heavy rains, no sun and it has been chilly - Oh well on the bright side, we are not as badly off as certain parts of Austrailia and probably not as cold as America and the UK - but still, I am so over this rain and can not wait to hang washing on the line and bring it in dry and fresh smelling two hours later....

Mariette's picture this week is lovely - the colours are subdued and subtle with the greens of the tree and leaves kind of blending in with the grey of the water...Mariette says that she likes the effect of water through the trees - so do I - Well done Mariette.

I took a picture today, at work - You could only see the nests from one angle and I just happened to look up at the right time...the weaver bird was a bonus..

Some other pictures - taken whilst we were on holiday...
First, Kayla-Fern enjoying the great outdoors...

And secondly - how beautiful and tranquil is this...

Then lastly....the pic below is not officially a lake.....I took it of the side of the road, from the car on the way to work this morning...what was a little bit of "veld"** on the side of the road is now a swamp - Shrek you can come and claim your land....By the way the reflection of the building was not intentional, in fact I had not even noticed it until I had downloaded my pictures....

Veld** - this is an Afrikaans word that basically means "field" (I think), but not a typical English field of green and daisies, perhaps a better description would be "grassland".  Similair words could be "Outback" (Austrailia) or "Priarie" (North America)...It is quite a lekker word because like with so many words that have been adopted into English from other languages, it has many nuances, and there is not one single word in English that can replace it....
Lekker is another of those words - it means anything from good/great/awesome/delicious etc, (and it can be used in sarcasm as well - "Now that is really lekker" (meaning oh so not lekker)......but not one of those words defines "lekker" properly...
Anyway, I am now talking LEKKER KAK - probably because once again it is late and it is well past bedtime, so until next week...Take care and I hope everyone has a LEKKER WEEK....Lots of love