it's up to you really.........Do you see ruins, degradation and urban decay, or interesting colour, light and beauty? mmmmm is this heat getting to me??

May you remember you were made for more and may you never be content to settle for less. Enjoy your weekend, friends.

wash day down at the river.......... just love the collection of colours, brightening up the banks of the Zambezi..

The one-kilometre-long Tete Suspension Bridge, finished in 1973 by the Portuguese and designed by Edgar Cardoso,and then repaired once again in 2010/2011, is a vital link on the major highway linking not just the northern and southern parts of the country, but Zimbabwe and Malawi as well. This bridge, the rail Dona Ana Bridge, and the bridge at Caia are the only bridges across the lower Zambezi. Find out more about Tete (where I live) in the link below .....

Find out more about Tete city, Mozambique

We don’t see things the way they are. We see them the way WE are - Talmud.

May your weekend be filled with endless opportunities to create and love and move on purpose. May you hope anyway, rest anyway, and laugh about it, too. If you are fighting a battle that you don’t think you can win, may the wounds heal quickly and your friends stand strong. If you are celebrating a victory you never thought would come, may you be thankful, humble, and filled up with peace. Enjoy your weekend, friends. from..... http://www.chattingatthesky.com/

He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature. Socrates (BC 469-BC 399) Greek philosopher of Athens

“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow.”

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. Helen Keller

“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.” ― Epictetus

the dugouts I seem to be finding on the shores of the lake and the Zambezi River, seem to be more and more "patched". It must be due to all the gorgeous hardwoods being either shipped to China or made into charcoal...... :(

just loved this old "African Star Chestnut" on the shores of Cahorra Bassa Lake.......I'm sure it has many stories to tell.......

may your Tuesday be golden..........YES it can!! by simply having an attitude of gratitude........

"dont overlook the "little things" by looking for the "big things".........

"clinging (sometimes precariously!) to THE ROCK, I will not be moved"........

David Livingstone - The Truth behind the Legend - by Rob Mackenzie - A must read

I have just finished reading an amazing book entitled "David Livingstone" the Truth behind the Legend.  It was written by an old friend of mine Rob Mackenzie - a Zimbabwean.  The first edition was published in 1993 and a movie is being made of it which will be out within the next few years.  It is an excellent look at the man, first and foremost as a christian missionary and then as an explorer and traveller.
I am living in the very place he often stopped and made a base, Tete, Mozambique. On his first visit here in March 1856 he was shocked to see so many slaves.  Of a population of 4000 only 350 of the inhabitants were not slaves and only 30 were Portugese.
He made many more visits to Tete by travelling the Zambezi in his vessles or dugouts, always with difficulties of shallow waters and shifting sand banks.  It was a place where he often had to recuperate from Malaria!!  (and most probably got it too!)
What a legend, what a man.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMrD5u1olc4

Kapenta rigs going out for the nights catch - Cahora Bassa Lake, Mozambique....... I wont be posting here for a few days as off on holiday to Mauritius. Yay......... Blessings one and all.......

loved the delicate seed pods of this tree on the shores of Cahora Bassa Lake, Mozambique........

"may your weekend be filled with friends, family and endless reasons to laugh hysterically!!" Happy weekend friends......

this old cart, still being used today, belongs to an old chief of an area close to the Zambezi. Just love the ingenuity of it, like it belongs to the "Flintstones"......... Happy "creative" wednesday to one and all........