Pretty Little Things

A few weeks back when spring was just beginning to flirt with us I noticed a rose tree on a street near my home.

Each day when I drove past it looked more beautiful and full of something that only poets know how to describe.

I even went for a walk with  the sole purpose of being closer to this thing that had me so possessed. Up close it was precious and I was glad.

Just as my romance with this tree was beginning to take flight, the flowers fell and the tree became just a green tree amongst many. 

Then my birthday picnic came and while seeking a perfect spot at the Johannesburg Botanical Gardens we found, of course, the rose tree. Just like the one I had grown to love, but bigger and with a few remaining buds smiling at the sun.

If anything is proof that love attracts love, this is mine to claim.

Alek Wek

Fucking beautiful. 

Pulchritude

"Pulchritude-beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection."

Zadie Smith. 

Why Don't You...

Buy someone flowers.

No matter what, no matter who, everyone loves a sweet smelling bunch of something pretty.

Or hey, buy some beautiful flowers just for you, just because. 

Develop a pornographic obsession with coffee.

A steamy cuppa is full of antioxidants and snaps like the above just do something for me.

Strangely, the first people to notice the effects of caffeine were Ethiopian shepherds who claimed that their goats got frisky and appeared to "dance" after snacking on coffee berries.