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Purple Poppies, Frida Kahlo and Orange Car

I love the delicacy of these purple poppies’ petals.

A pair of purple poppies

We chose the route home that takes us along Bond Street where there is a newish gallery called Studio 10 whose windows we like to look into. What treasures there today! A whole exhibition to Frida Kahlo – and when I looked it up, I discovered that the exhibition, The Frida Experiment, starts on Sunday until July 15th with this byline – ‘Sixteen artists working in various disciplines expressing how Frida Kahlo has influenced their work.’ I shall be back next week to have a proper look.

Studio 10

Nearer home, there is a house where interesting cars can often be seen. Today it is this orange delight. I don’t know what it is but I like it and hope one of my readers may be able to enlighten me.

Orange vehicle

Dendrites, Window Box and Eggs

26 Jun

I love the feathery patterns in our sandstone terrace, dendrites not fossilised plants. You can read about them here https://thefossilcartel.com/2015/09/dendrites-mini-still-life-in-stone/

The window boxes on our shed are filling out prettily.

Friends at choir often bring eggs to sell. They have some new chickens who are laying beautiful small blue eggs, a lovely contrast with the big brown ones.

Bee, Verbascum and White Strawberries

25 Jun

It is good to see bees busy on these Summer days.

Bee collecting nectar

I love the peachiness and furriness of these Verbascum flowers.

Verbascum

What a feast for supper tonight! Our lovely neighbour came in to share our roast chicken and brought with her a cornucopia of fresh produce from her allotment – new potatoes (which I cooked with mint and butter), broad beans (for which I made a creamy white sauce), a courgette (which I fried in butter with lemon zest) and White Strawberries for our dessert. I think they are lovely with their tiny red seeds and they certainly taste good! The birds don’t recognise them as ripe so they survive!

White Strawberries from Sue’s allotment

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 25, 2017 in Beauty, bees, environment, flowers, Food, friendship, garden, nature, Photography, postaday2017

Tags: Mullein

Sweet Peas, Cake Slice and Shelley

24 Jun

I have picked the first Sweet Peas from our garden and they smell divine.

I bought a new cake slice when we were in London – no cake to slice with it yet!

I don’t usually post political stuff on here but today Jeremy Corbyn has been at Glastonbury and I loved his speech. In there were the following words: “In every child there is a poem, in every child there is a painting and in every child there is music.” Given that these essential subjects are being squeezed out of our current curriculum, these words were music to my ears. He finished off with a quotation from Percy Bysshe Shelley – brilliant!

“Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number-
Shake your chains to earth like
dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you
Ye are many – they are few.”

There were well over 100,000 in his audience!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 24, 2017 in Beauty, garden, Happiness, nature, Photography, postaday2017

Tags: #Jeremy Corbyn, Percy Bysshe Shelley

Frilly Poppy, Haymaking and Nigella

23 Jun

A poppy opened this morning.

Hay is being made in the field behind our house. How lovely to be back in the country side after our week in London!

The Love-in- the -Mist , self seeded this year, is in flower.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on June 23, 2017 in Beauty, environment, garden

Tags: hay bales, Love-in-the-Mist, nature, postaday2017

Leaving London and A Party for Perun

22 Jun

It was cheering to see the flower-filled planters on our drive to Paddington Station this morning. The photo was taken at speed through the car windows!

I have shown you the sculpture of Perun, the Slavic Thunder God, as he has been developing next door. He is nearly ready to be taken to Slovakia and tonight a party was held in the front garden to wish him well and to send him off in style. Click on any photo for the essential detail. We are so lucky to have such fabulous neighbours!

Tonight

Left hand detail

The Party

Flowers at his feet

Party photos

At sunset some weeks ago, same day as dawn photos

At Dawn some weeks ago

There was Slavic soup, very tasty, and fabulous Strawberry Thunder Cake in his honour, all made by our lovely friend Shazz and all absolutely delicious.

Independence, Flowerpots and Treats

21 Jun

We love walking to school with the children. Some of the best conversations are had on these journeys. It is also lovely to see them striding out with such confidence.

Down one of the lanes to school we spotted strange creatures in the trees over a fence.