Today I have made a family recipe, Picnic Pie, for my friend and I to eat just before singing in St Mawes for their carnival. I’ll add pictures of that event later if Im not too exhausted. We are to sing from 7-9pm!
Picnic Pie – Mum’s recipe
Exhibition, View and Bunting
We went to Falmouth today to see an exhibition of paintings by a local artist, Julian Christophers. I first met him when I was part of the art collective Fannie and Fox where I used to sell my stained glass work. I always found Julian’s paintings to be full of joy, full of colour and always smile inducing. I especially love his portraits. Today’s exhibition met all expectations.
Here are two of his pieces for you to enjoy but for those of my readers who are local, go and see them for yourself. You’ll come away smiling!
Loula’s Meadow – mixed media showing flowers from a dog’s viewpoint
Afterwards we went into another local gallery where the view from their window is another beautiful piece of art.
View from the window of the Beside the Wave gallery.
Falmouth Week is coming up and the streets are full of bunting. 
Tomatoes, Onions and Sunflowers
It’s been a day of harvesting today at Community Roots – all the onions and the ripe tomatoes all gathered in and room now to plant out the winter brassicas and the later salad crops.
Just one of the 7 varieties we grow – these are Costaluto Fiorentino
My job today was to organise a Tomato Tasting of all seven varieties. The favourite was the cherry tomato, Mango Lassi, sweet and delicious!
A Sunflower somehow planted itself in one of the poly-tunnels and we’ve been watching it carefully, not clearing it away. It has bent over and sprouted flowering stems from up and down the stem – 8 flowers so far and at least four more buds to open.
Happiness Calendar, Posy and Water Babies
A bit late this month with the Happiness calendar….
Friends came over for tea in the garden this afternoon and brought a beautiful little posy of flowers from their garden,
Thanks P&J
As part of my clearing, I came across a very small booklet that I had as a child – a picture book version of Charles Kingsley’s Water Babies. I was reminded of Mrs Bedonebyasyoudid and Mrs Doasyoyuwouldbedoneby, both characters whose words we should all live by – The Golden Rule in fact. I’ve written about the Golden Rule several times before. Here’s one should you wish to check it out.
Garden Visitors and A New Word
Today was a beautiful summer day, temperature about 23C, blue skies, sunshine and a gentle breeze and we have spent much time in the garden, some reading, some weeding and a lot of birdcrastinating.
We’ve had more butterflies than we’ve been seeing, our squirrel came by and we’ve watched the delightful Long Tail Tits and Blue Tits enjoying the seeds on the Crinodendron Hookerianum.
Squirrel
Long tail tits
Blue tit in the Crinodendron
Close up, getting the seeds
and the new word for you:
Six on Saturday – White – and A Poem
I love white flowers in the garden. They lift dark corners and sometimes even catch the light of the moon.
Cosmos
Agapanthus, struggling in the heat
Gladiolus
Japanese Anemone
Clematis
Daisies
And a poem for you, White Flowers by Mary Oliver whose work I always find interesting.
if you want a peek over other people’s garden walls then please pop over to our host, Jim from Garden Ruminations where you find links to many more wonderful garden enthusiasts from all over the world.
More Moon, Cake and Stair Carpet
Last night the full Buck moon was still glorious and I do like taking a photo through leaves and branches.
I made another sunshine cake today. It was my usual coffee cake for the monthly Saturday market in Redruth and baked on solar energy.
The sun coming through the etched glass on the front door threw the pattern onto the stair carpet at the top of the stairs.
Window, Knitting and Dendrites
On our way out to breakfast with friends this morning, we were held up in the village of Ponsanooth, long enough for me to get this photo of a lovely window.
My friend P and I are still knitting squares for the Palestine appeal by Fariha. P has been more industrious than I and made some lovely squares. I will get these posted off soon. You can read about why we are knitting the squares here.
We’ve cleaned up our slabs today and I love the dendrites.
Full Moon Photos
Tonight’s full moon is the Buck Moon and last night, being clear, gave us a wonderful view. I managed a couple of photos but they didn’t quite catch the orange glow of the moon and all around it. To the naked eye, it seemed to be more the golden colour of the sun than the silveriness of the moon.
Orange halo
Behind the branches
Zoomed in
One of our friends also took a photo and it is just glorious, taken by holding his camera to the eye piece of a telescope. He did catch the colour! I have been given permission to share it with you.
Thank you J.
I’m singing shanties with my choirs tonight at the Eco Park in Porthtowan. If you are local and read this in time, come along. We start at 8pm!
Agapanthus, Cake and Herbal Tea
We’ve been driving past a beautiful bank of Agapanthus for a week or two and today I managed to get a photo from the moving car.
The cake for volunteers at Roots today was a Lemon and Blueberry with a crusty sugar topping. It was delicious and much appreciated.
The herbal tea made for volunteers from herbs and edible flowers was particularly pretty today. 
