A Cottage In The Cederberg, South Africa, 1971.

My late Mom was trained as an artist, and my Dad a keen amateur photographer.  Today, as I was going through folders of old photographs and sketches, I came across these two images, a moment when they collaborated in their love of the South African landscape and local architecture.  I scanned both, and here they are in my first attempt at a collage in PhotoShop.
In the winter of 1971, we went on a family holiday to the Cederberg district, a mountainous, sometimes desolate area about 150 miles north of Cape Town.  One day was set aside to make an expedition to the Moravian Mission Station of Wupperthal, set deep in the mountains along a precipitous dirt road.  It was pouring with rain that day and, after slipping and sliding all over the road for about thirty miles, Dad had had enough.  Just as he was looking for a place along the way wide enough to turn the car around, we came around a bend, and there was this vista:  beautiful Cape country cottage set against a slab of mountain.  Dad parked the car facing the cottage, and mom set to work with her sketch pad and pen.  By the time she had the basics down on the page, it had stopped raining, and Dad went off to record the scene from a slightly different angle.  Evidence of the amount of rain that fell is visible in the waterfall cascading from the cliffs.  A trip along that dirt road in the Google Street View vehicle, shows that the cottage is still there all these years later, albeit in very modernized form.
I will add as an aside, that it took me until 1993 to visit the lovely village of Wupperthal.  Here is a previous Blip of that trip.