Such a beautiful October afternoon, we drove to Falmouth, around Castle Drive, had ice-creams at Pendennis Point and then there was a rainbow with the ends in the sea.
There’s a delightful new postbox topper on our street, ready for Hallowe’en.
Next door to the post box is a garden where the hydrangeas have done much better in the summer drought than ours have. These photos are for our dear friend, P, who loves these flowers.
A wealth of beauty this morning before singing and then the geese flew over. By the time I had my camera ready they were nearly out of sight but here is what I managed to catch.
Our daughter’s cats love the roof and, last week, I managed to catch the beautiful Colour Point Long Hair looking up at us.
We drove past this road sign today.
Deciding we needed a poem about cats for today, we both remembered the lovely ‘little cat feet’ poem by Carl Sandburg at the same moment so here it is. Given the foggy starts we have had to recent mornings, it ‘s a good choice.
The fog comes
on little cat feet.It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
We had a few hours in Truro between appointments today, 9 am and 12 noon, and visited the Museum and Art Gallery where there is a new exhibition I’ve been wanting to see, Art Any Way.
In the gallery was one of David Kemp’s Tinners’ Hounds, known affectionately as Welly Dog (See here for our very own Welly Dog), work by Terry Shaul, Julian Christophers (a favourite local artist) and many more. Enjoy this small selection from the gallery.
Julian Christophers
Terry Shaul
When we arrived there was a family sitting on bean bags and story telling going on in front of a very beautiful paper sculpture. Not wanting to take photos of strangers or disturb the scene to ask, here is the paper sculpture and I leave you to imagine the lovely scene we came across.
I wish I know the maker to credit here.
I love singing and this afternoon was back at our choir rehearsal. It appears that the happy chemicals seratonin, oxytocin and dopamine are all released when singing together and I certainly fely better for the session.
Our annual concert is only six days away! We are celebrating the Ingleheart Singers’ 20th Anniversary. I have been in the choir for the last 18 years and 7 months and our concert is going to have a selection of pieces from those last 20 years. If you are local, do come and join us and please, introduce yourself! It will be an evening full to bursting with JOY!
We are collecting memorabilia of those years and today I took along a poster and programmes from Until The Day Break, a wonderful open air theatre production I was instrumental in producing. Claire had brought in a card from a wedding we sang at and at which I was the Humanist Celebrant.
If you’d like to see more of Until the Day Break, where the Ingleheart Singers were the singers, click here.
Extra info for the concert:
Free parking, bar open, raffle, donations on the door to Community Roots Cornwall and ShelterBox
Thankyou to Ruby Ingleheart for the lovely poster!
There are a surprising number of flowers still in bloom for mid October. Here are just six for today’s post – more later. 
It’s been a full day, covid and flu jabs this morning, a long catch up with friends in the Buttermarket and this afternoon another pottery lesson. More about that tomorrow too.
Jim, over at Garden Ruminations, hosts  Six on Saturday  Pop over and in the comments, you’ll find so many delightful posts from keen gardeners all over the world.
One last picking of raspberries, enjoyed this evening with meringue and ice-cream.
We see some delightful postbox toppers around. This one, made by crafters in Carnon Downs, is particularly lovely, celebrating 100 years of Winnie the Pooh and his pals.
I hadn’t seen this poem by Mary Oliver before but liked the ideas, especially the reason that birds can fly, and thought you might too.
Our dear friends at Community Roots have missed me on our Tuesday volunteering sessions and have sent me a delighful card full of lovely get well messages.
Thank you so much everyone!
I sent for a sweater, not my usual style but I loved the message.
Last weekend we went for brunch at a brilliant cafe, Bob’s Cafe in Muswell Hill. The food was delicious, the service exemplary and as we paid, they gave us a couple of little cards. They turned out to be a little gift of seeds rather than loyalty cards and I will be planting them when it seems the right moment.
My Suffragette garden has good colour right now, Verbena Bonariensis, Japanese Anemones and Cyclamen.
We have a perpetual calendar which we love and turning it over today, found this perfect quotation.
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