Listen to your heart

Living in the moment

This I promise you

Somebody to love

My wish

If tomorrow never comes

A mother's day song

Symphony

Glitter Mini's Video by Rose and Cale Photography

 

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I am so proud of my daughter with her photography, she is improving all the time.  I am so awed with her work that I am at a loss to what to say.  Photography is not easy, yes you can pick up a camera and take a picture but you can't make a master piece from doing it this way.  Mastering the equipment, understanding how light plays a huge role in this and so much more, that most layman would not comprehend. It's a lot of hard work and takes time to capture that amazing shot.


And if it is people, children and babies, the photographer must make the subject at ease.  I think this is also a gift.  Baby shoots can go horrible wrong where the baby just cries and is not happy.

This is me doing my best to support her in the only way I know how.  Help me support her and go to the links I provided and if you like her work just click the like button.

Upcoming photographic shoot

Beautiful, magical glitter phot sessions to be held at The Gray Room Studio in Bridgeton,

26th - 27th May 2018

Dresses will be provided and also plenty of glitter and confetti for the photo

The Gray Room

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Read more: Bruno Mars - Just The Way You Are Lyrics | MetroLyrics

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Oh, her eyes, her eyes
Make the stars look like they're not shining
Her hair, her hair
Falls perfectly without her trying
She's so beautiful
And I tell her everyday

Yeah, I know, I know
When I compliment her she won't believe me
And it's so, it's so
Sad to think that she doesn't see what I see
But every time she asks me, do I look okay
I say

When I see your face
There is not a thing that I would change
Cause you're amazing
Just the way you are


This video that my daughter put together is amazing, its certain the right music to go with the video, she had someone help with the video.  Please have a look.  The song is Bruno Mars and the song is "just the way you are".  I have include links of Bruno Mars of when his next concerts will be and what days its going to be on.

When you love somebody

Glitter Photography by Rose & Cale Photography

About Rose & Cale Photography:

When any business is born, there is always a huge creative drive to try and find the right name. Initially, in my early days, I thought Itsy Bitsy Photography would suit me and what I was trying to create. But it wasn't until recently that I decided it did not fit me or my business, and a personal choice was made to use the middle names of my two children, combined, to make my business name. It is something I could never grow tired of and it means everything to me.

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Rose & Cale Photography has grown in strength and I hope it will continue to do so. I do not currently have a studio, but it is a plan that hopefully the future will hold for me, and I really hope one day, I will look onto a studio of my own, with my name above the door.

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Until that day arrives, I provide home calls, which in its own, is incredibly convenient for parents, particularly when a new baby has arrived, or if you have more than one child. I try and keep all photo session very relaxed and informal and I try not to rush any photo sessions I have the pleasure of photographing. Its all about taking our time, and keeping everyone happy.

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As a business, I offer various packages for different photoshoots, and will do my very best at all times to provide a service you are completely satisfied with, and to give you photos you will cherish for ever.

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Keeping the relaxed, informal approach, I will re-visit you once your photos have been edited, to personally show you everything I have worked on, allowing you the comfort of your own home and space to enjoy the viewing more.

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Yes, there are things I have not done, and no, that does not mean I can't, so please get in touch if you have any requests as I would love to hear from you.

 

Glitter Photography

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Heal the world

What is life all about?  We are born and then we die.  Some never get to be born.  Some only take a few breaths.  Some live for a very short time.  Some are not planned, some are planned.

To me it's a miracle to bring a child into this world.

It's not the big things in life that count the most.  It's the little things.  The things that most of us have no time to see because we so busy competing with the Jones.

People today have no time for others.  Most have concerns for their own needs that they could not give a shit or if even care if someone else is going through a rough patch.

If you got it all, the money, the car, the house, and all the trimings you will always have the friends to go with it.  I call them the hanger onners.  The ones that get a free ride at your expenses.

If you were to loose it all, those who have called you their friends disappear.

Yes life is what we make of it.  But life is not just about us.  It's the people in it that make life worth living.  So many, so many of us are seeking someone that just belongs to us.  We can share the rest of our lives with.  But people are not willing to comprise and put themselves out for something they so desperately need.

What I have is because my one sister gave it too me.  She said she rather not give me the money as I probably give it away.  She bought me a couch, a tv, a fridge and a bed.  She even bought the cats beds for them.

My sister has a heart of gold and she is always there for me and others.  I love her .

The stuff she gave me is materialistic but her genorisity is the one gift of hers that she has no idea she has given me that counts the most to me. 

These things that she bought me does not bring me happiness but I think it made her feel good doing it.

When someone we know dyes it makes us face reality how life is so unpredictable and we can loose people in our lives at anytime.  For a short while we show more appreciation of these people in our lives but in this rat life we live and the pace which we live at we neglect to tell them that we love them.

Call me stupid but I get so much pleasure and enjoyment out of the small things in life.

The new leaf on a banana tree.  It starts up like a rolled up bit of paper and it unfolds to a beautiful full leave.  It's amazing.

How the banana tree produces it's fruit.  It so amazing.  The pod.  The flowers and the fruit which I get to see and so many of you will never get to see.

Two feral kittens playing in my garden together.  The only reasons why they in the garden is firstly they have a mother and secondly I can't catch them.

Watching them at play and enjoying their closeness brought such a wonder to me.

I don't see them all the time and it's been a while since I last saw these two kittens but when I looked out of the window this morning  I saw them together.  I put food out for them and sometimes it's eaten and sometimes not.
I watched how the black kitten was washed by the tabby kitten, it melted my heart.

People don't think animals have a capacity to love but they do and their love is not like the love us humans have for each other.  It's totally unselfish and never seeks reward.  A animal love for it's owner it's one of total loyalty.

The new buds appearing on the different plants in my garden.

A different species of bird that visits my garden and I get to see it.

The checkyness of the yellow bishop when I put bread out for them.   I sit on the stoep watching them as they come to take it.

A spider in its web.  I don't kill spiders.  They have even more of a right to be here than we do. 

Everything on this plant as a purpose.  Without the one then the other could not survive and man is the one that GOD made as care taker but GOD Made a terrible mistake in doing this. 

Man is the reason why many animals are disappearing from this planet and I could never bear to life in a concrete jungle.  No plants, no animals.  What a horrible life that would be.  GOD only created man on the 6th day.

Sometimes I just sit on the stop and listen to the birds singing.  It's beautiful music.

The sunrise and the sunsets.  God's art on the sky.

God helps those who help themselves.  He gives us the strength and helps us to find the solution ourselves but GOD is very busy and sometime he uses people to help out others.  He has done this many times in my life.  A complete stranger has stopped and given assistance to me when I have needed it.  Unfortunately there are not many in this world that do it.

Start making this a better world for me and for You, for your children and the children of your sisters and brothers and for all future generations to come.  Do a good deed and share a little of your good fortune with others that have lost theirs.

This comes in many forms.  Sometimes just take the time to listen.  It cost nothing.  Often solutions arise when others input.

Stop and smell the roses.  Stop and look there are amazing stuff and true miracles happening around us

Beautiful life

The little things in life

I can't make you love me

Flower in South Africa

Clivia

This is an indigenous plant to the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal and eastern Mpumalanga.  It’s easy to grown and it’s also grown overseas.  The orange clusters of flowers, tells us that spring is on the way.  This plants like sun but can be planted in shady areas, under trees or on a shady stoep (that is Afrikaans for veranda). The other colours that it comes in, is pale yellow and a deep reddish orange.

 

Clivia

Dietes Grandiflora

They are iris-like flowers, white flowers with their yellow and mauve markings.  It’s really something if you plant a lot of these plants in your garden.  The flower last a day but new flowers open up continuously.  It can grow in dry, shady or sunny areas.

 

Dietes grandiflora

Arum Lily

This plant during winter and spring in the Cape area, as the cape gets winter rainfall.  In other parts of the country it grows in spring and summer when it usually the rainy period of the country.  They have beautiful white flowers with long, broad, dark green leaves.  The plant loves damp soil and shaded areas of the garden.  They are long lasting cut flowers.

 

Arum lily

Strelizia

This is a vibrant orange and blue flower.  It’s is very unusual as the flowers look very much like a crane with a crown of feather.  It’s one of South Africa’s icons as it even appears on the 50 cent coil.  Easy to grow, just water the ground when it’s dry and keep the soil well mulched.  It has other names such as the crane, as explained and the bird of paradise as it also resembles that bird in flight.

Strelizia

 Vygies

This little plant is indigenous to the south-western cape.  It comes in many colours from yellow to oranges, from pink to purple.    They can be planted in a rock garden or dry areas because the plant does not need to be watered very often.  The succulents are also easily propagated from cuttings.

 

Bokbaai Vygies are exported.  These plants are grown worldwide for their dazzling range of colours like yellow, cream, pink, magenta, and orange.  It is a winter succulent which forms a low ground cover.  The leaves are spoon-shaped and the surface cells on the leaves are modified for water storage.

Vygies

Red hot poker

These are upright plants with bright flame-coloured flowers. There are different species of this plant that flower in different season.  Again plant a lot of them; it is truly a spectacular site when they flower.  They love water and need to be water regularly in summer and feed them fertilizer to ensure a good showing.  The flower attracts sunbirds to the area has the flower is tubular and is well suit for the sunbirds long beak to feed from.

 

Red hot poker

Pincushion protea

The protea is indigenous to the south-western Cape, but could grow anywhere in the country under the right conditions.  The roundish shrub is about 1.5m high.  It’s a low maintenance plant and the flowers can be dried and last like this for a very long time.

Pincushion protea

 

Morning glories

They are climbers with slender stems, and heart-shaped leaves.  They have trumpet-shaped flower and come in several colours, pink, purple-blue, magenta or even white.  Every day they will re-open to the kiss of the sun.  The vines can grow up to 15 feet in one season and can self-seed fairly easy.

The flowers are in bloom from early spring to the first frost.  They attract butterflies and hummingbirds to the garden.

Morning glories

Daffodils

Daffodils started growing in early spring.  They come from bulbs that must be planted around June.  They are one of the earliest plants to flower.  It has a trumpet shape flower and come in a variety of different colours and shape.  The traditional daffodils are sunny yellow.

 

Daffodils

Tulips

These plants originally came from Turkey.  The tulip was cultivated in the Netherlands from the 16^th century.  They grow best in cold climates but there are hybrids that can be grown in South Africa.  Tulips love cold soil so the best time to plant them would be from March to June.  Plant them in a place that has morning sun only.  The tulips do well if planted in containers.

Tulips

African daisy

These indigenous flowers carpet the bare veldt of the south-western and north-western Cape and Namaqualand in spring, and the flowers are so prolific that the leaves are almost invisible when the blooms appear. Dimorphotheca are members of the large Asteraceae family, which includes asters, daisies, and sunflowers, and their daisy-like flowers will attract butterflies to your garden. They come in the traditional bright orange and yellow flowers as well as many pastel shades and pure white.

The African daisy is used as low cover around shrubs or as the focal point in mass plantings. They also make beautiful borders, so sow them in mass into large borders, beds and rockeries for hassle-free winter and spring colour. These sun lovers will only open their petals in sunlight and remain steadfastly closed at night or on overcast days.

African daisy

Cosmos

Cosmos are beautiful summer flowering annuals native to Mexico, where most of the species occur, as well as the United States, as far north as the Olympic Peninsula in Washington; and Central and South America, as far south as Paraguay. One species, the commonly called “Mexican Aster” (Cosmos bipinnatus) escaped gardens and naturalized itself across much of the eastern United States and eastern Canada, growing abundantly on disturbed land besides roads, and in fields and waste areas. It is also widespread over the high eastern plains of South Africa, where it was introduced via contaminated horse feed imported from Argentina during the Anglo-Boer War. In South Africa they flower religiously around Easter time, transforming open fields and roadways with their masses of flowers, and the flowering can continue until the first frosts.

Cosmos

Sutera
Sutera remains firm favourites with gardeners around the world for their ease of growth and profusion of flowers throughout spring and summer. They are hardy, vigorous, low-growing plants which can spread +-50 to 60cm, while only reaching a height of +-15 to 20cm. Plant breeders have developed many new and improved strains of Sutera which not only flower even more profusely, but also have larger blooms, with some varieties even sporting lovely yellow foliage. They are available in beautifully delicate shades of blue and pink to lavender and white. Some of the new cultivars include: Sutera” Snowstorm”; Sutera “Blue Showers” and Sutera “Lavender Showers”

Sutera

 Iceland Poppies

If it’s the “wow” from flowers you are looking for, then Iceland Poppies (Papaver naudicaule) are just the thing for you. Planted in autumn temperatures, they will help transform your garden into a winter wonderland. While some gardeners are loath to buy seedlings when they can’t see any blooms on the little plants, this shouldn’t be a concern. Poppies offer their best when planted early in the season, soon providing blooms that will keep on appearing right through to late spring.

Iceland poppies

Sweet peas

Sweetly scented sweet peas are a must for the autumn garden, not only for their gorgeous smelling and looking blooms in the garden, but also to bring a little of the garden into your home when it’s a bit chilly to spend time outside because sweet peas make excellent cut flowers.

Sweet peas

Kingfisher Daisies

Blue is a sought after colour amongst gardeners because it is quite rare, especially a true blue shade. Kingfisher Daisies, with their masses of striking sky-blue and sunny yellow flower heads fit the bill, catching the eye wherever they are planted. There are approximately 84 species of Felicia, and South Africa is blessed with about 79. This little plant did not go unnoticed and was one of the earliest species used in horticulture, first being introduced to Europe in the middle of the eighteenth century; it also features on one of our stamps. Sky-blue, pale blue, violet-blue, pink and white flowered forms are available, as well as a variegated variety and a beautiful annual which is entirely blue.

Kingfisher daisies

This never happened before to me

What a wonderful world

Wonderful life

South Africa - a bit about the country I live in

South Africa is divided into nine provinces. South Africa previously had four provinces from 1910. The following provinces were:-

• The Cape of Good Hope
• Orange Free State
• Natal
• Transvaal

 

In 1994 this was change to nine provinces, they are as follows:-

• The Eastern Cape
• The Free State
• Gauteng
• KwaZulu-Natal
• Limpopo
• Mpumalanga
• The Northern Cape
• North West
• Western Cape



9 provinces of South Africa

Before 1994 there were 10 ethnically based homelands created for the black people of South Africa.  Four on them gained independence from South Africa but it is not recognised by any other countries in the world. 

 

Independent homelands

• Bophuthatswana              -             independent from 06/02/1977                    Tswana
• Ciskei                                  -             independent from 04/12/1981                    Xhosa
• Venda                                 -             independent from 13/09/1979                    VhaVenda 

Non-independent homelands

• Gazankulu                          -                                                                                         Shangaan
• KaNgwane                         -                                                                                         Swazi
• KwaNdebele                      -                                                                                         Ndebele
• KwaZulu                              -                                                                                         Zulu
• Lebowa                               -                                                                                         North Sotho
• Qwaqwa                             -                                                                                         South Sotho 

homelands of South Africa

The apartheid regime tried hard to get the other six homelands to become independent, but these homelands were not interested.  These six homelands were ruled by South Africa.  To be independent meant that they could issues stamps and exchange ambassadors with South Africa as nowhere else recognised their independence in the world.  They had rights to vote in these areas but no rights to vote anywhere else in the country.  All the homelands had their own “legislative” assemblies and a limited amount of autonomy.  All the homelands had their own coat of arms and flags except KaNgwane which only had their flag and they used the South African flag.  In the homelands that were not independent they use both their own flags and the South African flag. 

All these homelands were reincorporated into South Africa from the 27^th April 1994 and they no longer use the former symbols of their homelands. 

There are five countries that border South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique. 

Lesotho and Swaziland are both enclaves of South Africa.  They are bordered on all sides by South Africa but remain autonomous countries.

 

enclaves - Lesotho and Swaziland

There are eleven official languages in South Africa

• Afrikaans
• English
• IsiNdebele (Ndebele)
• IsiXhosa (Xhosa)
• IsiZulu (Zulu) 
• Northern Sotho (Sepedi) 
• Sesotho (Southern Sotho)
• Setswana (Tswana)
• SiSwati (Swati)
• Tshivenda (Venda)
• Xitsonga (Tsonga)

 

Non-official languages

• Fanagalo 
• IsiCamtho (Tsotsitaal)
• Khoe, Nama and San
• Lobedu
• Northern Ndebele
• Phuthi
• Sign Language

The official flag of South Africa

The flag was designed by Fred Brownell who was a former South African State Herald.  The flag was first used on 27th April 1994. The design and colours present principal elements of the country's flag history.  The colour combination could have different many to the people so no universal symbolism can be attached to any of the colours. 

The central design of the flag, beginning at the flagpost in a "V" form and flowing into a single horizontal band to the outer edge of the fly, can be interpreted as the convergence of diverse elements within South African society, taking the road ahead in unity. The theme of convergence and unity ties in with the motto "Unity is Strength" of the previous South African Coat of Arms.

South African flat 27th April 1994

The Coat of Arms

The previous coat of arms was used from 1910 and was replaced with the present coat of arms on 27th April 2000 on Freedom Day,  the day of the year when the election first took place when the ANC were first elected into power.  The motto is written in the Khoisan language of the IXam people and it reads ǃke e: ǀxarra ǁke and it means "diverse people unite" which is a direct translation

South Africa's coat of arms 27th April 2000

The national bird of South Africa is the Blue Crane

The blue crane is on the critical endangered list.  The primary decline of this bird is due to human population growth and that grasslands are used for commercial tree plantation and deliberate poisoning in order to protect crops or accidental poisoning from poison meant for other species.  The blue crane is now under the protection of the South African government.  Research and educating the people have been implemented.




This bird is very special to the amaXhosa who have given the bird the name indwe.  The chief would award a feather from this bird to those who did deeds or valour.  The feathers would also be presented to the heroes after a battle.  These men were know as men of ugaba (trouble) and wore the feathers in their hair. When men were given this name, they had to step in when trouble arose and reinstate order and peace.

blue crane

The National fish of South Africa is the Galjoen

The galjoen is a species of marine fish and only found along the coast of South Africa.  It is found mostly in shallow water, and often found in rough surf.  It is well know to the angler because it can stay very close to shore.  Depend where they are found they look completely different in colour, near rocks they are completely back but when in sandy areas the colour is silver-bronze.  Another name or them is the blackfish or black beam.  They can grow to over 55cm and up to 7kg in weight.

Galjoen

National flower of South Africa is the King Protea

The King Protea, (Protea cynaroides), is a flowering plant. Its flower head (what the layman will call the 'flower') is the largest in the genus Protea: the species is also known as Giant Protea, Honeypot or King Sugar Bush. It is widely distributed in the south-western and southern parts of South Africa of the fynbos region.  The national cricket team of South Africa have the nickname Proteas.

king protea

The national cricket team of South Africa have the nickname Proteas.

emblem South African Cricket Team

The National animal of Sout Africa is the Springbox

The word in afrikaans, spring = jump, box = antelope, deer or goat.  Its a small brown and white gazella about 75cm high.  The males can weigh up to 50kg and the females around 37kg.  Both sexes have horns but the male horns are thicker and rougher.  These animals have adapted to the dry, barren areas and open grass plains.  they are most found in the Free State, North West province and the Karoo up to the west coast of South Africa. 



springbox



The national rugby team is nicked named the springbox.  They were also known as the Springbox in the apartheid era and they were supposed to be called the proteas when apartheid ended but the president at the time Nelson Mandela intervened and it was then allowed for the rugby team to keep their name.  The springbox emblem is also used for the South African Airforce and the South African coat of arms.  It was also used for a South African own car, the ranger in the early 1970's.

emblem South African Rugby Team

The National Tree of South Africa is the Real Yellowwood

This true has been around for more than a million years in South Africa.  The tree is widespread is found from the Table Mountain, along the southern and eastern Cape coats, and in the drakensberg up to the Soutpansberg and the Blouberg in Limpopo.  When they grow in a forest these tree can be up to 40 meters in height and the base of the trunk can be up to 3 meters wide.  But if they grown on unsheltered places, like mountain-slopes they are often short, busy and gnarled.  The colour of the bark is khaki-coloured to grey when its old and peels of in strips.  The male or female cones resembles the pine cones but are white, light green or pink.  The female cone has a fleshy pedocarpium and the seeds take on the shape and colour of a cherry.  The leaves are strap-shaped, 25-40mm long and mature trees about 100mm long and on young trees 5-12mm with a bluntly pointed tip.  It is a slow growing tree and the wood is hard.  The wood was used to make furniture, panelling, etc.  Little of these trees are cut now due to the fact of over-exploitation.

real yellowwood tree

National Athem

A proclamation issued by the then State President, Nelson Mandela, on 20 April 1994 in terms of the provisions of Section 248 (1) together with Section 2 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1993 (Act 200 of 1993), stated that the Republic of South Africa would have two national anthems. They were Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and The Call of South Africa (Die Stem van Suid-Afrika). In terms of Section 4 of the Constitution of South Africa, 1996 (Act 108 of 1996), and following a proclamation in the Government Gazette No. 18341 (dated 10 October 1997), a shortened, combined version of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika and The Call of South Africa is now the national anthem of South Africa.

It is the only neo-modal national anthem in the world, by virtue of being the only one that starts in one key and finishes in another. The lyrics employ the five most populous of South Africa's eleven official languages - isiXhosa (first stanza, first two lines), isiZulu (first stanza, last two lines), seSotho (second stanza), Afrikaans (third stanza) and English (final stanza).

Lyrics

Nkosi sikelel' Afrika Maluphakanyisw' uphondo lwayo, Yizwa imithandazo yethu, Nkosi sikelela, thina lusapho lwayo.	(Xhosa and Zulu)
Morena boloka setjhaba sa heso, O fedise dintwa le matshwenyeho, O se boloke, O se boloke setjhaba sa heso, Setjhaba sa South Afrika - South Afrika.	(Sesotho)
Uit die blou van onse hemel, Uit die diepte van ons see, Oor ons ewige gebergtes, Waar die kranse antwoord gee,	(Afrikaans)
Sounds the call to come together, And united we shall stand, Let us live and strive for freedom, In South Africa our land.	(English)

The first people to settle in South Africa

The Khoi Khoi and the hunter gatherer San lived in Southern Africa about two thousands years ago and archaeologist have uncovered artwork and implements believed to be the oldest in the world

Today they are called the Khoisan, and were skilled hunter gatherers and nomadic farmers who lived of the land.  Even though they were here first, they are the most persecuted people even when apartheid fall in South Africa.  The Khoisan became the most forgotten.

Source : http://www.southafrica-newyork.net/consulate/anthem.html

http://mediaclub.co.za/landstatic/163-provinces_new

https://theculturetrip.com/africa/south-africa/articles/what-to-know-about-the-khoisan-   south-africas-first-people/