Sunset over the Drakensberg

Last week while in the Drakensberg, we experienced the most awesome sunsets

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Home for awhile

While we've been away these last ten days, our home town and surrounding area was blessed with good rains again. (PS, I wish we could share it with the drought-stricken Eastern Cape) Needless to say, when I walked in my garden last night, I was greeted by cool lush greenery and prolifically flowering shrubs and plants.

Leonotus leonurus, (Wild dagga or wild canabis), one of my favourite shrubs, attracts sunbirds and butterflies to my garden. It also provides a beatiful show from Christmas until mid-June.

Butterflies are regular visitors to the above shrub: Plumbago auriculata (Cape Leadwort)

My parents always had the above shrub in their garden. So I was thrilled when I managed to grow this one here in my garden, Plectranthus fruticus (Forest Spurflower)

It's soothing to wander through the many"rooms" in my garden

I drink in as much of the greenery and cool lushness as I can to sustain me when I return to Khartoum where I spend most of my day in a first storey flat with dust and heat all around me...

I've been trying to catch up on reading other bloggers posts and commenting. We are home for now but want to make a last trip to the Golden Gate National Park. Weather permitting we'll be camping there for part of the Easter weekend. Then it's back home and we begin to pack and prepare for our return to the Sudan.

Youngest Grandson's Dedication at the Church

Above Angus prays a blessing over his first-born

On Sunday our younger son, Angus and his wife, Amanda, had their little boy dedicated in the church. This means they brought their child to be "introduced to God." According to the Bible, Jesus was introduced to God even though God knew all about Him just as He knows all about our little grandson because He created him.

Here a church elder prays a special blessing over the grandparents. Amanda's parents are also the pastors of our church so the whole ceremony was very special indeed

Once again, as this post is aired, we will be on our bike and heading south to Kwa Zulu Natal. We visit an old school friend, who has a beautiful guest house on the Mooi River. After this we will spend three days in the Drakensberg with older son, John, Debbie and their children. Saturday our older granddaughter celebrates her seventh birthday on the same day as her one-year-old sister.

Once we have visited mum-in-law on the East Coast of Natal on Sunday, we will ride up the back road and visit the old town I grew up in. (My darling hubby's idea) Many memories will be awakened (he courted me while I lived there so it's a trip down memory lane for both of us) and I'll be sure to take many photos.

We should be home by Monday and begin to pack for our return to the Sudan.

Till then, all my fellow bloggers, be blessed and stay safe.

Hugs

Jo