Berries, baubles and bling.......

We explored the Gabon wilds today, my main aim was to find "Christmas decorations" and look what I found! Gods own.....

Natural bling.....

I started to feel sorry for myself. We will be alone for Christmas. No family, no precious grandchildren, no friends and no lights, baubles and bling....

So I began to compile a list of "gifts" and "thanks", there are so many, I could write a book. I add to the list daily. 

Look at our "natural" Christmas lights, alive and glowing!

FRENCH..."tout est possible"

mmmmm yes we are getting there, slowly, with plenty of effort.  I can sometimes smell the "rubber burning!"

I have opted for  the French CANAL +TV,  instead of DSTV.  We have found amazing programmes, I miss the gist of most of it, but surely I am absorbing something??

I have begun to listen to French music, find the lyrics and "try" and sing along!  This is one of the fantastic albums I have bought.... Global Project/Francais, Hillsong, Paris

I do the Michel Thomas Method and Duolingo, as often as I feel up to it, can't say when I find the time, as there is plenty of that!!

But finally I think I am learning the most from my maid, Seraphine, who know absolutely NO English....

I think I can, I know I can, everything is possible!

You soul, like the waves, always restless...

If you came back, you wanted to leave again; if you went away, you longed to come back. Wherever you were, you could hear the call of the homeland, like the note of the herdsman' s horn  far away in the hills. You had one home out there and one over here, and yet you were an alien in both places. Your true abiding place was the vision of something very far off, and your soul was like the waves, always restless, forever in motion." Exiles Return #aforeigneringabon #nyangaranch #picoftheday #africanbushveld #gabon

I've done my first painting in Gabon....

It's just a little 60cm x60cm acrylic on canvas, and my first with acrylics.  We had very limited transport to  get our kit here, but I will slowly add to my art tools.  I snapped this pic of the cockerel on one of our many trips to the capital, Libreville.

Stag Horn Ferns for free...

They grow in the wild here.........

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen...... Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nyanga River, Gabon....  The view from our home...