Author Archives: Reviva

Wedding Dress

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Reviva

Sons are not, in the main, great shopping companions. Mine are complaining in and out types, fixing on an item as quickly as possible, ducking from considering alternatives I might point out to them, making for the tills in tortured … Continue reading →

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family memories in watercolour

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Reviva
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watercolour cloth book: family album

Posted on February 6, 2016 by Reviva

 

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Reading is me

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Reviva

From “What do I see that Flies?” New Africa Books

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A piece of green…surprise, surprise

Posted on December 8, 2015 by Reviva

\ An unnamed, unknown piece of green smuggled by my mother from my sister’s garden in Atlanta in her suitcase is later broken off from its resting place in a pot in her garden in Johannesburg and finds a place … Continue reading →

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Landscapes hard to believe

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Reviva

From our trip to the Richtersveld, Namibia and Botswana in 20014

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Splitch splotch on rock

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Reviva

Reminiscing by flipping through the digital album of our last last trip to the Richtersveld, Namibia and Botswana. These lichen “ebstreks” are from the Waterberg  in Namibia.

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Pretty as a postcard

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Reviva

En route from Soebatsfontein to Kamieskroon

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All aboard the Nabapeep Flower Express

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Reviva

No one is waiting on the platform for this train which is going nowhere. It is marooned in the orange-stained little mining town of Nabapeep in the garden of the charming Mine Museum. The squashed and tilting wicker basket behind … Continue reading →

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Another treeture

Posted on September 20, 2015 by Reviva

A social weaver’s nest has turned this tree into an elevated Moore sculpture ( thinking  great thoughts) or a giant otter caught in some trap smelling his own behind ( in silly mode). In Witsand.

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