pieces of ria

all images - credit:  elisabeth toll {LOVE.}

credit:  Arianna Belle So I've been working hard the past couple of weeks. And I've been really productive, go figure. I have no idea why, but things are just.. easier to do. I think it's because I want to finish up what I've started this year. I want to prove to myself that I can still do this. It's good to be busy. :)

We are lucky enough to live walking distance from the Helderberg Nature Reserve .   It is such a beautiful place. Swan & I had a picnic there two Sundays ago.   I made a chicken salad, we popped a bottle of bubbly and fell asleep whilst reading in the sun. Bliss .

credit: staceywinters Here's to a positive week filled with new things to colour my life.

credit:  freeasterix Often I dream of escaping to a different world. A dreamworld.  My dreamworld. Where anything and everything is possible. A place where even the strangest, simplest dreams come true. Sometimes, when I try really hard, it is as if I can move myself from reality to this place... this wonderful, possible place.   I smell the grass, I feel the sunshine on my skin, I hear the far-off laughter of the people who exist there. Sometimes, it is almost as if I'm actually really there... But when I open my eyes, I'm back.   Here. And it's ok to be here. But I wish - oh how I wish to be able to slowly open my eyes and realise that I'm far, far away.   That I'm THERE. If someone should then take my hand and pull me up from the grass where I'll be sitting, I'll SO take it and follow to wherever it might lead. Maybe, maybe one day.

credit:  azalcala Sometimes, at a certain time of day when the light is just right, the temperature is just right and the sun makes you feel welcome and safe and happy, Sometimes when you can smell the faint hint of spring and new life and green grass in the air, Sometimes when the sound of the wind tickling the leaves in the trees or the faint rustle of my cat's hair as she groomes herself sounds juuuust right, Then I feel confident to say that YES - I do believe in magic....

credit: brightbazaar Right now, right at this moment, I wish for the following things: I wish for a warm, quiet, summer's evening (tonight) I wish for this table, on a lakeside, set for two (husband & I) I wish for an amazing meal, cooked nearby and served with very special wine I wish for a wooden cottage on the lake where we can sleep I wish for a holiday there, with my husband, just the two of us, for a week I love to daydream!