Porterville

it was so cold on friday night so we moved our bed in front of the fireplace!

climbing up to see the sunset

my love in front of our cabin

gathering firewood

I've just come back from an amazing weekend in Porterville, about 2 hours drive from Cape Town. My boyfriend, Steve, is going to London on Sunday, so this was just kind of a last weekend away. We stayed in a beautiful log cabin on a protea farm, right on the top of the Cedarberg mountains. It was freezing up there, but well worth it!

i'm back! for now...

Hello! It feels weird typing this because I've been away from this little blog for so long. I would love to say that I have some cool plans up my sleeve, but right now, not really. To be honest I've actually been thinking about just deleting this blog and then maybe starting afresh with something new. But right now, I don't know.

In the meantime here is a phone photo that I quickly snapped earlier this week, while on the way home from Muizenberg. The clouds were insane - so much definition. So beautiful.

Instacam

Just a few pics from the past few weeks ...

Archived lives

I've been doing a lot of research in to the history of Mowbray (a small suburb of Cape Town, where I live). I spent a morning at the National Archives last week and as I was paging through files and files of photos of Mowbray and old Cape Town, I came across these portraits. There were no captions, except for their names, but apart from that, I don't know the dates or anything else. I'm guessing they are pretty old though, maybe from the 1800's or early 1900's?

I just think these are really special.

fire through the window

Snapped this yesterday on the way to lunch with my parents to celebrate my graduation (!) 

Apparently this was a "controlled burn", which sounds like a pretty crazy thing to do, but I guess it's actually very important. I think all us Capetonians get a little anxious when we see our mountain on fire.

mowbray dark

Some photos of my neighbourhood that I've been gathering for my research project. I took these quite a few weeks ago, on a public holiday Wednesday, so the streets were pretty deserted. Not sure why I made them so grainy though!

this weekend in pictures

This weekend wasn't the happiest, simply because I had all four wisdom teeth removed (see sad swollen face on left side) on Friday morning. Nice. But at least I got some good use out of my phone camera!

hello instagram

I signed up to instagram this week and already I think I might be hooked. It is all still a bit new for me, so not sure how often I'll be using or what kind of shots I'll be sharing, but hey! What's wrong with another little distraction anyway?

autumn palette

Took these this evening, while walking around my neighbourhood, gathering reference for this year's big research project. Just love the colours.

Two Door Cinema Club

Some photos from last weekend's madness. I was super lucky and won two tickets to see Two Door Cinema Club live, at the 5 Gum concert in Philippi. Amazing venue, awesome music, wonderful night!