Weekly Stills: A Winter Holiday at the River House

afternoon light // calm blue sea // a big yawn for a little dog // last night's wine

Our Daily Bread church cafe // homegrown flowers // fishing at the River House

The week that was. Mother Nature provided warm days filled with golden light, and calm seas. We embarked on a road trip to the River House where we fished for bream, marvelled at the beautiful homegrown flowers, drank tea, read books and watched pelicans glide silently by with the gentle current. The warmth from the sun provided us with enough energy and comfort to allow us to spend more time outdoors.

We dangled fishing lines in the river and waited in hungry anticipation. We chatted, laughed, sang and later, we dined on freshly caught fish. This week we filled each day with as many adventures as our young bodies could manage and each night we lazily stumbled into our snug bed and drifted into dreamy slumber.

For me, this week was all about sharing the sweet company of my family during a remarkable holiday in the winter time.

Dear friends, a warm remember to enter my giveaway. The final day to enter is TODAY and the odds of winning are very high. xx

With love,

Bella xx

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A Farewell and a Bunch of Lilies

So majestic when the long, slender buds begin to open in the sunshine. They're natures slow-motion eruption of colour.

To reveal flowers so vividly pink, each petal looks as if it were hand painted.

Vibrant and proud they stand, if only for a few days before sadly shrinking and fading...

You could be mistaken for thinking you had stumbled into the Early Cretaceous Period, when the earliest lilies, the water lilies grew an estimated 125 million years ago.

The beautiful flowers are so large, they open wider than the span of my palm and though I like to imagine what other creatures may have been hulking their giant now extinct bodies around when the dinosaur lilies grew, I tend to envisage scenes from Jumanji or Avatar instead.

Then again, sometimes the petals remind me of giant tongues...

These beautiful flowers are made visible to you through my blog courtesy of some former colleagues, who gave them to me on my last day of work. Sweet, huh? I thought so.

The enormous bouquet was given to me at my desk, along with a delicate grey and silver beaded scarf and just when I thought I would never find a vase large enough for the flowers, I was presented with this little beauty...

This is the most exotic looking item I now own.

It's bright, sunny, ooh and ahh-inspiring and suited my Avatar flowers perfectly.

Even Maxi agreed.

Bella xx

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