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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

03 Aug

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

02 Aug

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:

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 2, 2026 in birds, Cornwall, environment, garden, nature, Peace, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: littlepinelearners

Six on Saturday – White – and A Poem

01 Aug

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.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 1, 2026 in environment, garden, nature, poetry, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: Mary Oliver

More Moon, Cake and Stair Carpet

31 Jul

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.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 31, 2026 in art, baking, Cornwall, Postaday 2026, Redruth, Uncategorized

Window, Knitting and Dendrites

30 Jul

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.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 30, 2026 in Uncategorized

Full Moon Photos

29 Jul

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!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 29, 2026 in environment, nature, Porthtowan, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Tags: Porthtowan Eco Park

Agapanthus, Cake and Herbal Tea

28 Jul

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.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 28, 2026 in baking, community, environment, nature, Postaday 2026, Uncategorized

Truro – A Short Walk

27 Jul

I had a spare hour in Truro today and walked some old haunts finding lovely things. The blooms everywhere were remarkable, I found a Chough at the bus station and rediscovered the Victorian post box.

A Cornish Chough and a Gull

A Red Admiral butterfly at the side of the stream

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 27, 2026 in antiques, art, Beauty, butterflies, Cornwall, environment, nature, painting, Postaday 2026, Truro, Uncategorized

Sunflower, Poppy and Stronger Together

26 Jul

We started with six Sunflower seedlings and one by one the snails enjoyed feasting on the leaves until we had just three left. The first of those has flowered and is glorious and loved by the bees.

I showed you the seed bomb flowers yesterday and this morning there was also a single small red poppy.

The following posters have been up on a bill board in town since early April. I love the thoughts here and am so pleased that they haven’t been spoiled over these months.