1 I made a Lemon cake ……
Lemon Cake
2 and finished the new Sally-boots just in time…
Sally-boots for Grandbaby B
3 ….. to take up to see our new Grand-baby who is now in Exeter Neo Natal Unit, brought back from Bristol yesterday. We met our beautiful new Granddaughter and were able, at last, to give our beautiful daughter a hug.
Baby head
Poster in the Neo Natal Unit
Cross stitch in the Neo Natal Unit, Exeter
1 They had just finished watering at the garden centre and the lupin leaves were holding onto the droplets as lupins are inclined to do.
Lupin leaf with water droplets
Magnification
2 This white camellia is very beautiful.
White Camellia
3 I love these words and just though I’d share them with you!
“You’ve gotta’ dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.
(And speak from the heart to be heard.)”
They were spoken by William W. Purkey, a man who received many accolades for his outstanding teaching. He used to end speeches with this poem. I wish I had known it when I was teaching – I would have followed his example and closed my classes with it too!
1 It was very atmospheric in Tehidy Woods last night.
In Tehidy Woods last night
2 The grape hyacinths are coming out in force now and are very beautiful.
Bi-colour Muscari
3 I have finished the tiny little trousers for Grand-baby B – they are one of the most pleasing little things I have made. They are called Kanoko pants because “Kanoko” is from Japanese term “Kanoko-ami” which means “seed(moss) stitches” and I have to thank Harumidori designs for the delightful and very easy pattern.
Tiny baby trousers
Interesting challenge but found a variety of photos with different interpretations that please me. Yesterday’s regular post had a couple of ‘Up’ photos too.
1 The sky is the most beautiful blue today, cloudless and quite stunning.
Cloudless blue sky over Cornwall this morning
2 Leaning against the tree trunk and looking up though the tree that is greening up with new growth was lovely and attracted a few odd looks in town this morning!
Looking up through the greening tree into the bluest of skies
3 I posted a mother leopard with a cub up on a mound for this week’s Photo Challenge and found this lovely Cheetah as I was going through the photos of our trip to South Africa.
A Cheetah
We were coming back from a safari when the guide suddenly pointed out these two leopards, mother and cub up on a mound. We watched these beautiful animals for some time as the sun was going down.
Leopard mother and baby up on a mound
Zoom in on the leopards
1 My Suffragette garden is full of white daffodils and tulips. The purple tulips are almost ready to bloom. I so hope they will flower before the white tulips have faded.
White daffodils and tulips
2 The new Clematis, ‘Early Sensation’, has a few flowers which are very pretty.
White Clematis
3 The baby ducklings in today’s post by Marilyn remind me of a beautiful little book my parents bought when they were in Boston many years ago (and Boston is in all our minds this week with such sadness.) “Make Way for Ducklings” by Robert McCloskey is about a policeman who stops the traffic so that the mother duck can take her ducklings across the road to the pond in the park, a beautiful story about a beautiful city to whose citizens we send condolences.
Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
1 I am fascinated by reflections as you may have guessed. First thing this morning with the sun streaming in, the colours of the glass in the back door were reflected in the windows. I wish I understood how reflections work!
2 Driving through our lovely Cornish lanes to Penryn to choir for the first time in three weeks, the trees are developing that lovely haze of colour – greens, pale yellows and pinks – that mean Spring really is on the way.
3 We drove down to Loe Beach for the early evening sunshine. I just love being there, listening to the wavelets coming onto the shingle, finding tiny yellow shells and finding a very special sense of peace.
A wavelet coming in
At the edge of the water
Vivid rusty chain links
1 This delightful lithograph hangs in the kitchen and today I caught the reflection of some of the garden in it.
Afternoon Break by J Whiteford
Garden refected in the glass of the lithograph
2 I found these leaf skeletons just outside the front door this afternoon.
Very delicate skeleton leaves
3 We are very lucky in that we have a field behind our garden and a rogue group of daffodils has just appeared. fortunately the rabbits don’t seem interested in eating them!
Narcissi in the back field
Zoomed in on the Narcissi
1 More Narcissi are flowering. I wish I could remember the names of the varieties. If you recognise them, please tell me.
Another beautiful Narcissus
The palest of daffodils
2 It’s been a beautifully sunny and warm day and the lawn is suddenly covered in Daisies.
3 I went across the road tonight for an hour or two with a few friends and coming home we saw this toad by the wall. I do hope he stays safe and doesn’t go out onto the road. You’ll have to look closely. I didn’t use the flash, just the guide light but you can still see his beautiful markings.
Late night toad
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