If you’re lucky you get to witness Autumn capturing the last heat of the summer’s sun in its deep yellow leaves, like a cat with gamboge eyes.
Gamboge canopy.
Powdery like saffron, spicy like mustard.
Autumn and a Cat with Gamboge Eyes
Feuille-Morte and A Nightingale in Autumn
So many facets to Feuille-Morte and A Nightingale in Autumn, as many as fall colors.
Autumn is splashing out its colors, giving away her best dead leaves, feuilles mortes. If I would describe Fall to you as the season with brownish-orange dry leaves, would I get your attention?
Continue reading “Feuille-Morte and A Nightingale in Autumn”20 Afrikaans words with interesting English literal translations
When learning a new language, some of the issues we encounter are translating those crafty closed compound words – combinations of two or more words that function as a single unit and mean something different than the individual words they are built from.
Continue reading “20 Afrikaans words with interesting English literal translations”