1 This delicate tulip was blown over in the bitter winds and has now opened indoors.
Tulip on the window sill
2 The family left at 8.30 this morning and the house is disquietingly quiet! We’ve been putting away the fireguard, stair-gates, baby bean bags and toys. The old chest was my Dad’s. He trundled his books from Britain to Egypt to Bechuanaland in the Second World War and it is has another life now as a toy chest. Some of the toys in it were mine, many were our children’s and some are new for the Grand-babies. The cup-cake cases have been an excellent toy for 2 year old T who has stacked them, named their colours, paired them up and thrown them!
Toys back in the old wooden trunk, now the toy chest
Cup cake cases drying
3 Somehow I missed this hooped tree trunk off my Weekly Photo Challenge post of our day out earlier today day so here it is!
Beautiful tree trunk in Mylor Churchyard yesterday
xpat92
April 5, 2013 at 2:46 pm
Hi,
A precious tulipe. You are a good soul to have brought it in.
I love your toy test, all neat at tidy for now.
Happy weekend!
norrbu
April 5, 2013 at 1:55 pm
I love tulips, and lillies.
mybeautfulthings
April 5, 2013 at 3:09 pm
Me too! We have to wait a while for the lilies though 🙂
Charlie@Seattle Trekker
April 4, 2013 at 10:53 pm
I find the reuse of the travel trunk as a toy chest to be quite brilliant, it is touching.
mybeautfulthings
April 5, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Thank you. Each time we open it I am reminded of my lovely Dad and the smell takes me back to my childhood! 🙂
ladysighs
April 4, 2013 at 8:29 pm
I love the colors in all your photos. (It’s probably just your trick camera.)
You could make the devil look charming and glamorous. 🙂
PositiveBoomer
April 4, 2013 at 7:17 pm
Always love your photos Sally. It does get ‘very quiet’ once our Grand Kidlets leave after a visit. Have a wonderful day. hugs, Renee 🙂
mybeautfulthings
April 4, 2013 at 8:15 pm
Thanks for the hugs! Much appreciated today of all days! 🙂
PositiveBoomer
April 5, 2013 at 6:31 pm
awe, I am sending you more hugs Sally. I hope your day is good and continues to get better. 🙂 Renee
mybeautfulthings
April 5, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Thank you. I am always rather low when they’ve all gone and find it hard to get motivated. To know that you care is really lovely. This Blogger Family is really very special! All the best to you and yours 🙂
I did manage 6650 steps today though!
mybeautfulthings
April 5, 2013 at 6:41 pm
Thank you. I am always rather low when they’ve all gone and find it hard to get motivated. To know that you care is really lovely. This Blogger Family is really very special! All the best to you and yours 🙂
I did manage 6650 steps today though!
PositiveBoomer
April 5, 2013 at 7:36 pm
Good for you Sally. That is a great walk! The best thing for you to be doing when you are feeling down. 🙂
Shelagh
April 4, 2013 at 7:08 pm
I thought it is a Monkey Puzzle Tree, Sally.
Shelagh
April 4, 2013 at 7:12 pm
http://www.arkive.org/monkey-puzzle/araucaria-araucana/
mybeautfulthings
April 4, 2013 at 8:15 pm
Yes, finally got there! Thank you for your confirmation 🙂
mybeautfulthings
April 4, 2013 at 8:15 pm
Yes, finally got there! Thank you for your confirmation 🙂
Our Growing Paynes
April 4, 2013 at 6:12 pm
What a great way to reuse the old trunk. 🙂
john zande
April 4, 2013 at 5:40 pm
Is that a Norfolk Island Pine i spy there? I know a few were brought back to merry old England, but as to their whereabouts i have no idea.
mybeautfulthings
April 4, 2013 at 6:18 pm
I don’t know. I’ve never seen a tree like it before. Thanks for telling me what it is. 🙂
john zande
April 4, 2013 at 6:43 pm
Oh, I don’t know if it is or not. It certainly looks like one. After old Capt. Bligh settled on Pitcairn and made a royal mess of things the Brits set up shop on Norfolk to relocate some of the mutineers and start a penal settlement. Low and behold they found pines. It was a botanists dream, so in good Enlightenment spirit they loaded up a few and sailed them home.
I only know this because we had a house on Norfolk and our next door neighbour (on the other side of Ball Bay) was the great, great (great?) grandson of Fletcher Christian and he just LOVED to tell stories 🙂
mybeautfulthings
April 4, 2013 at 6:52 pm
I love your story about the Norfolk Pine but I’ve just looked it up and I don’t think it is one. I’ve googled images of tree bark and can find nothing like the one in question so now we have a puzzle on our hands! The top does look a bit like a Monkey Puzzle tree so I’m off to look that up now! 🙂
john zande
April 4, 2013 at 6:54 pm
Now that you mention it, the bark does look a little different. N. Pine bark is like peeled chocolate flakes. OK Sherlock, you have your mission and a mystery to solve!
mybeautfulthings
April 4, 2013 at 6:55 pm
I think that’s it – an Araucaria Araucana – a Monkey Puzzle tree but they don’t all have bark like that. Thanks for the chase! 🙂
john zande
April 4, 2013 at 6:56 pm
Well done! Love the name, Monkey Puzzle 🙂
mybeautfulthings
April 4, 2013 at 7:02 pm
Me too! 🙂