For Dan Antion’s Thursday Doors, I am sharing a few doors pictures from our 3 days at Babanango Game Reserve. You can join in Dan’s challenge here: https://nofacilities.com/2023/08/17/wvu-doors/



For Terri’s Sunday Still’s challenge, I am sharing some pictures with yellow items for her yellow theme. You can join in Terri’s Sunday Stills here: https://secondwindleisure.com/2023/08/13/sunday-stills-monthly-color-challenge-are-you-all-in-for-yellow/





Lastly, Colleen has provided one of Terri’s amazing pictures for her Tanka Tuesday Challenge. You can join in Tanka Tuesday here: https://wordcraftpoetry.com/2023/08/15/2023-photo-prompt-template-tankatuesday-weekly-poetry-challenge-no-333-8-15-23/

Sunflower salvation
Sunflowers
Salve for broken hearts
Uplifting
Allowing
Spiritual convalescence
Nature’s floral smile
By Robbie Cheadle
I love this Robbie, interesting doors in fact the first one has a yellow hue! Fantastic yellows in your photos the top hat cake and the record player are fantastic finished off by a lovely poem 💜💜💜
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Hi Willow, I love this yellow week. Yellow is such a happy colour. The Mad Hatter cake is an early on but I still like it very much.
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It is absolutely brilliant I love it too!
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I meant the cake you did a great job on it …and yes yellow is a wonderful colour 💜💛💛💛🟡
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What a lovely post, Robbie. I’m so happy you brought in a few doors. I love the doors to the cottage. That stone wall is impressive. I think I see figures in there, although I doubt that was intended. I love the cake and the sunflowers – you’re so clever and talented. I’ve enjoyed the posts in the yellow theme this week, and yours are as beautiful as any. I hope you have a nice weekend.
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Hi Dan, I still have a few interesting doors to share from this trip. I’ve talked hubby into a trip to Namibia in December 😁 so I’ll have a lot of new ones for next year. I’m glad you like my art 💕
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Thank you for sharing “Nature’s floral smile” ! A lovely poem. And I enjoyed all your photo’s- doors, cakes, and flowers.
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My pleasure, D. I love sunflowers.
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That view–oh my. Better than an ocean.
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I like our bushveld, it makes me happy 💞
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Uplifting indeed!
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Thanks, Jan 🌞
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Thanks for sharing, Robbie. I love that the buildings at the game preserve are rock. The house I grew up in was made of rock. 🙂 Love the Sunflower poem!
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Hi Jan, a lot of the buildings is the reserves are rock or even mud and daub. They use local materials. I’m glad you like the poem.
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Great doors and great yellows, Robbie. 🙂
In your poem, that “Nature’s floral smile” line is brilliant!
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Hi Dave, I’m glad you like that line. It’s what came to me first and I built the poem around it.
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Wonderful post, Robbie, with captivating pictures! Your cottage is amazing, and the sunflower picture is beautiful, as is your poem. ❤
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I’m so pleased you enjoyed this post, Tim 🌸
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It was fun seeing some of fondant art I hadn’t seen before. Your game reserve cottage had a fantastic view.
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Hi Liz, I have lots of cakes that I never photographed ‘properly’. I wish I had. I made a teapot from jelly but I don’t have a picture and it was quite an assembly feat.
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I’ve never seen a teapot made of jelly. I’d imagine it would be quite tricky to make.
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Very tricky, but I am very determined
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🙂
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You certainly do have a keen eye for photography, Robbie.
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Thank you, Andrew 🤗
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You’re welcome.
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Nature’s floral smile… love it!
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Thank you, Annette 🌻
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Those doors! (Different from any I’ve seen, including the view.) And the yellows! Fascinating color since I literally just chose a yellow flower for my post tomorrow after my month blogging break. Yellow – a spiritual color indeed.
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Hi Pam, I’m glad the doors interest people. Africa is different to other places. That’s why we stay despite the problems here. I love yellow. It’s always been my favourite colour.
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And sometimes they call us mellow yellow 🎶 💛
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So much fun and goodness in this post, Robbie! Your cottage looks quite comfortable and rustic. Of course your gorgeous fondants are one-of-a-kind–so cute and delicious looking–especially the sunflowers on the chocolate cupcakes! But your beautifully written poem says it all–sunflower salvation indeed!
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Hi Terri, I love sunflowers and tried to write a poem worthy of their magnificence. I wish I had better photos of my early cakes.
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Great share, Robbie. Wonderful tanka, and the pictures are fantastic, especially those of the cottage you had. I also really love the yellow sunset!
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Hi Mae, thank you, it was a lovely holiday all around. The yellow sunset was on the estuary where the hippos and crocs live.
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Beautiful doors, cake, photographs…and especially your poetry! Very moving!
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Hi Donna, I love sunflowers. I had them for my wedding 😁
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What a beautiful place!
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It was amazing.
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Sunflowers do smile! (K)
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Thank you. Kerfe. I think so too. 🥰
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Your lovely poem suits Terri’s sunflower perfectly! I love Terrance’s cake!
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Hi Jacqui, the Mad Hatter cake was one of my early cakes. I like it too. I also made a teapot out of jelly but I don’t have a picture
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The record player cake is so cool. All of them are, and I like that one especially.
Love the spiritual convalescence of your sunflowers.🌻❤️
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Thank you, Melissa. I made that record cake for my mom’s 82nd birthday
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“Nature’s floral smile” – I love that
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That was the first line I had. I jiggled words until I built a poem around it.
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I love the rustic doors to your cottage, Robbie a delightful post full of colour 🙂
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Thanks, Carol. I love yellow 🌻
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I love yellow flowers, and fruit the colour yellow as in clothes doesn’t suit me though 🙂
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Gorgeous selection of awesome photographs 💛
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I’m glad you enjoyed them 🌻
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That sunset is beautiful.
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Thank you, Craig. Africa has great things to offer.
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T.W. Dittmer sent me and I’m glad he did.
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I’m delighted you enjoyed this post.
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Thanks for the lovely photos. So you are a cake lady. You also had a gorgeous photo of a tall cake to represent the sixth mass extinction, if I remember correctly, at the beginning of your book. Very impressive. I like your poem too. all lovely, Robbie. xoxo
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Hi Selma, yes, I created a cake interpretation of The Scream. It was that cake, Lion Scream, that inspired that collection. I’m glad you like it 💕
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I liked it.
I reviewed your book on Amazon yesterday but it hasn’t shown.
Here is my post that went live minutes ago. Bless you. Xoxo
https://selmamartin.com/this-graphic-collection-with-youtube-links-poetry-prose-and-a-short-story-is-a-must-read/
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This is such a lovely collection of photos, fondant, and poetry.
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Hi Jennie, I’m glad you enjoyed 🌻😃
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Very much so!
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Lovely photos and inspirational words!
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Thank you, Merril 🌻
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You’re welcome!
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Lovely place, lovely poem and super cakes and pretty sunflowers!
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Thank you, Chris 🌹
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Another wonderful post, Robbie. I enjoy your combined challenge posts. That sunset photo is gorgeous, your fondant work continues to amaze, and your poem is beautifully uplifting indeed. ❤
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Hi Diana, I am pleased you enjoy my combo posts. Thank you 💗
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Beautiful poetry and photos, Robbie!
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Thank you 😊
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“nature’s floral smile” I love this!
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Thank you 😊
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You’re welcome.
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All the photos are beautiful, Robbie! I love your poem, the doors of the village this week. Your special cake ideas amazed me. You made a hat cake for Terence! 🙂
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Hi Miriam, I’m pleased you enjoyed this post. I still like that Mad Hatter cake 🌞
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That’s beautifully done, Robbie. ☺️
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What a wonderful post, Robbie. I love the record player, mad hatter cake, and sunset, and of course, your lovely poems. Sunflowers are a favorite of mine. 🌻
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Hi Lauren, you and I share a love of sunflowers. I had them for my wedding. I’m delighted you like the cake. I liked my little card painters.
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“Nature’s floral smile…” what a great description, Robbie. I loved all the doors, all the yellow, and your poem is perfect. You are a true sunflower. 🌻💛
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Hi Colleen, thank you, I am so pleased you enjoyed this post.
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You’re so welcome, Robbie. I love all the reviews for Lion Scream, by the way. 🥳
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Thank you, Colleen
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‘Salve for broken hearts’- so apt. The door pictures of the game reserve are interesting. I like earthy, rustic and old. Love the daisies on the cupcakes, the sunrise and the other yellow pics.
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Hi Smitha, I am so pleased your enjoyed this post. I like these multi challenge ones.
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I’m impressed every time you show the places where you stayed in these trips, Robbie. All look wonderful. I loved all the yellows too. Hugs.
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HI Teagan, I am very lucky to be able to visit these places. These visits make work bearable.
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Your love of craft via photos, cakes and verse are as radiant as the heliotropic sunflowers.
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Thank you, Jules.
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Hi Robbie, thank you for the beautiful photographs and the lovely poem!
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HI Charles, thank you, I’m pleased you enjoyed.
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This is so uplifting, Robbie ❤
Love it.
~David
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HI David, I’m glad you like it.
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The game reserve looks neat. Love all of these. I am really behind on all my commenting and just couldn’t seem to get a post together for the celebration theme, so I’ll just make the rounds and comment instead..lol.
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Hi Kirstin, I haven’t done a post for celebration yet either. I will do so on Thursday. I’m pleased to meet you.
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I have to begin with the sunflower smiles. I needed to smile, and now I am!
Wonderful doors.. and the yellow is mellow!
Do you know that 60’s song by Donovan…Mellow Yellow?
Thanks for the fun and beauty!
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Hi Resa, I try to shake up my poetry and not make it all dark. There are marvelous things in life too and those must be celebrated. I do know that song. Thanks for mentioning it and I’m glad you enjoyed the yellow.
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Such uplifting and gorgeous photos, Robbie. I love pictures that highlight nature, living in nature and creativity. Your poem about the sunflowers were wonderful. There is a field of sunflowers near me that was planted in remembrance of family members that lost their lives to cancer. Cancer survivors visit and leave poems, thoughts etc. Anyone is welcome to visit and take a flower and make donations to Cancer Research. This poem made me think of my visit there.
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HI Carla, that is a lovely idea, I wish we had a sunflower field like that here. Maybe I will plant sunflowers on the pavement this year. I’ve been toying with the idea. I’m glad you liked this post.
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I love this line, “Nature’s floral smile.” They are a smile maker, for sure. 🙂
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Thank you, Marsha, I do love sunflowers.
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I didn’t used to. You see them along the roads and they are just weeds, tiny and not impressive at all, but there are hundreds of varieties that are all gorgeous. Our botanical garden in Woodlake had a sunflower festival every year that was quite impressive.
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🥰🌷
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Sunflowers are beautiful, loved the line Nature’s floral smile.
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Thank you, they are my favourite flower 💚
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😊
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