Beautiful things

This time next week, I will be on my way home so here are a few of the things I don't want to forget once I am back in the grey: the women wearing chitenge - colourful fabric wrapped round their waists - tall and graceful, balancing large bowls of vegetables on their heads and a baby on their backs; all kinds of butterflies - orange, yellow, white, brown and swallowtails checkered in black and white, yellow and white; long trumpets of orange honeysuckle, sweet smelling white jacaranda and purple and red bougainvillea; the sunset over the Zambezi, the orange sun gradually dissolving into the grey-blue haze as it slips below the horizon; children's faces; the blue blue sky . . .