Firstly, I give you a couple of the fabulous batiks used to decorate the barn at the Eco Park which is where one of my choirs rehearses now. 
And some more garden colour….
Pink Japanese Anemones
California Poppy
More October Colour
Mid October Garden
Some flowers for you today……
Lady Betty Balfour Clematis
Fabulous multi-headed Sunflowers, baby plant given to us by Daughter No 3
Next door’s Nasturtiums come visiting which we love. Spot the lady Betty Balfour too.
Autumn Colour, Pumpkins and Leaves
The trees in the car park are losing their leaves, those that are left are all shades of Autumn colour..
The greengrocers had various beautiful pumpkins and squash on sale.
The trees in town have lost their leaves, lying in little pops of colour on the grey stone.
Gardens, Grass and More Gardens
After meeting friends for  coffee and a catch-up, I went for a walk around the Diaspora gardens, loving the Eucalyptus trees and their mottled bark in the Australian section. I have posted before about the gardens. If you’d like to see more, click here.
I’m hoping that by showing you photos of the newly mown lawns you will be able to remember the wonderful smell of just cut grass. I was hoping to find out that there is a special word for this smell as there is for that remarkable scent of rain on sun dried ground, petrichor, but there isn’t. Apparently we like it because it reminds us of summer. 
Close up of the bench you might have spotted in the previous photo
In the afternoon, the lovely Mr Smith thought I needed the big trees and long views that we find at Trelissick Gardens. He was right. Just click on any photo to get a bigger picture and more detail.
Golden squirrel
Brilliant project
The best view ever
More cut grass and long views to the pile on the horizon where there are deer playing in the garden
We love the colours, shades of green, and the turquoise water of the creek
Love the water pattern left by the canoeists and the reflection of the yellow jacket in the water
Another weather vane
Singing, The River and Yachts
There are moments when we are singing in the Zed Shed in Penryn and looking out over the river, that life just feels so very good! I love  the mass of masts and all the wriggly reflections.
Cake, Chickens and Blue
I iced the cake this morning with tangerine icing and took it to our friends for a lovely catch up.
Tangerine Dream Cake
On my drive home I noticed two chickens on gateposts advertising that fresh eggs were for sale so I stopped to get photos.
Today we’ve planted the Hydrangea in the freshening-up border along the way from the Mountain Pine. Here’s a photo of what it should look like next summer.
Lacecap Hydrangea Bluebird
Smile Cake and A Pine Tree
I made a new cake today, one of Jamie Oliver’s that he calls Tangerine Dream Cake. I’m calling it Smile cake as it cracked looking like a smile. It’ll get its tangerine icing tomorrow before we take it to meet with some special friends. . 
We’ve been clearing part of the front garden that has become rather overgrown. We have bought a small, slow growing Dwarf Mountain Pine which we are assured will be happy in our garden despite us not being in the mountains. We have some other treasures to go in too, including lots of Tete a Tete narcissi bulbs..
Street Art, Harvest and Another Spider
We often drive past the Old Post Office but rarely have the chance for a photograph. Today I managed through the windscreen.
I have harvested our Sweet Potatoes today! There aren’t many but they are a lovely colour.
The lovely Mr Smith left his beaker outside this afternoon and just popped out to get it. Not until he was in the kitchen did he realise he had brought in a spider who was busy munching on its supper. We think it’s a Cross Spider and guess it probably was having been brought into the warmth and then out again.
Apples, Dahlia and A Poem
Yesterday our lovely local greengrocer, The Grow Box, had Russets in stock. They are my very favourite apple so I treated myself to three.
A special dahlia that we bought earlier this year, White Star, has just started flowering and it is gorgeous, about 8″ across!
Serendipitously, one of my favourite poets, Kim Ridgeon, Â included a dahlia in the poem he posted this morning. I had just been given permission to include it here when I realised that I could get the perfect photo to go with it though ours is the first of the plant not the last, I hope. I love the words, ‘delicate strength’ as they so well capture what the dahlia brings to the season along with a smile. . 
For those of you who liked the beautiful seed packets yesterday, here are a few more.
Chimney, Tree and Seed Packets
Driving from the re-cycling centre to the nursery to find a small evergreen tree for the front garden, we saw Killifreth Mine chimney in the distance. It is the only tall slender chimney of this shape in all the industrial leftovers of tin mining in Cornwall. It is truly beautiful.For more information look back at an earlier post https://mybeautfulthings.com/2020/06/15/todays-walk-to-killifreth/.
On our drive, we spotted a lone tree in a field.
We found the little tree we were looking for but I was more taken with some really lovely seed packets from Kew Gardens.
