I know it’s officially spring here, but I wish I’d had this oversized cardigan to keep me wrapped up during our trying winter. Sigh.
winter
Emerson Fry delights
We’re moving into summer here in South Africa (yay!), but some of these autumn/winter classics from Emerson Fry are still rather lovely.
Chelsea boots
All I want in my life (you know, apart from all the other things I really, really want) is a pair of black Chelsea boots.
Woolworths have these, which are great, but they are men’s (they have them in black too, just not online for some reason). But why?!
Woolworths Chelsea boot
A hat
This winter I’m going to wear a hat. Look how pretty!
These beauties below are from Jane Sews, and available to buy online.
Felted hat from Jane Sews
Felted hat from Jane Sews
Autumn
Johannesburg winters are not my favourite. They have redeeming qualities – like warm midday temperatures, blue skies, and lack of snow and ice – but they are also so dry that the countryside, and my skin, turns to a scratchy, dusty husk of its former plumped-up-with-humidity summer self.
At the moment though I’m about ferreting out silver linings, and Joburg’s autumn colours and lovely wintery light fit the bill.
Pre winter’s frost
Golden
An autumn cat
Tree atop tree
Autumn sunrise
Picnicking light
Warm and sultry
Autumn has fully settled in, and my skin – slowing drying out as the Highveld turns from green to yellow to all shades of dusty brown – tells me that winter is just a few weeks away. It seems sudden this year, but maybe every year I have the same selective memory and the same disbelief at the rapid passing of time.
These crisp Joburg mornings make me long for December, which must be my favourite month in South Africa, with its lazy heat and countrywide inactivity. In an effort to recapture those carefree feelings, I went through my December 2013 holiday snaps – a blissed out, snooze fest of a time in Zinkwazi, on the Natal north coast.
