1 I love how the sun has caught the purple edge of the Hebe leaves and highlighted the stamens on the flower.
Hebe in my Suffragette garden
2 Going out in Skippalong today to follow the Tall Ships Parade of Sail we noticed pleasing haystacks on the horizon.(I’ll post a gallery of the beautiful ships tomorrow)
Tall haystacks
3 Our friends took the opportunity for a Titanic moment as we were moving through the channel to see the Tall Ships.
N&G’s Titanic moment
1 The clematis in the front garden has lovely fluffy seed heads – and this one has a Green Shield Bug on it.
Seed head and beetle
2 Truro’s hanging baskets are quite splendiferous this year – every turn brings another beauty.
One of Truro’s glorious hanging baskets
3 We are having a picnic with friends tomorrow and I have baked a Mary Berry recipe, a Scone Tray Bake for the shared lunch. I’ve also collected lots of beautiful salad leaves from the garden.
Peppadew and Cheddar Scone – it tastes as good as it looks! I had to try a bit so that it fitted the box!
1 Leaving my piano lesson today, the hedge once full of wild roses is now full of Rosehips. Had I more time, I would have collected some for Rosehip Jelly.
Rosehips
2 A neighbour is growing Hollyhocks. These pale pink beauties are about10′ tall!
Pink Hollyhocks
3 Along the lane the Arum maculatum, also known as cuckoo pint or cuckoo-pint here in the British Isles is named thus in Nicholas Culpepers‘ famous 16th Century herbal. These berries are sadly poisonous if very glossy and lovely looking!
Cuckoo-pint
I like the frayed nature of some bark and grasses.
Frayed Silver Birch trunk
Fraying grasses
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1 We were in Falmouth for the four day Tall Ships event and had a delightful day, first in the always pleasing Falmouth Art Gallery. There was a really touching exhibition on ‘The Boy Who Bit Picasso” about the friendship between Picasso and a young boy and his family. If you get the chance, do go and see it.
2 We called in to see an exhibition of work, The Art of Happiness, by our very talented artist friend, Suzanne Crook, and I fell in love with a small painting which we bought as our Anniversary present to each other. On our way through the town we spotted one of her signature pieces, a fantastic bejewelled Unicorn. I would so love to have one of these!
Rocking Unicorn by Suzanne Crook
3 And at last we arrived at the Tall Ships – they really are magnificent. Look closely and you will see some sailors on the main stays. It looks very precarious!
Some of the Tall Ships in Falmouth Harbour
1 More and more Goldfinches are coming to feed each morning. This photo was taken from indoors and a long way away. You may have to click and zoom to find all six if this lovely family.
A Goldfinch family feeding
2 I like the thoughts in this little poster that was sent to me.
Do your best
3 Supper tonight was a delicious Chicken and Mushroom Lasagne.
Golden topping
1 I was sorting through one of my treasure boxes today, one that I haven’t looked at for years and years and I discovered four beautiful sand dollars, three still hairy and one cleaned up by the sea. We collected them on Savannah Beach, Georgia, USA in 1980! They have been wrapped up in tissue paper for many years and it was a lovely surprise to see them again and to remember our walks along the beach. Click on any photo to see the delicate flower pattern. They really are the most beautiful things.
2 The garden is delighting in the rain and I like how the downpour has distorted the view from the kitchen.
Drenched garden
3 I have loved these coloured light-balls ever since I first saw them in Truro some years ago and the other day we bought some! They are all connected up and now I just need to place them.
Light balls
1 It certainly feels Autumnal today! It’s raining and so much cooler and the leaves are beginning to turn.
First Autumn Colour
2 In a lull in the rain, I went out and collected our last few Sweet Peas. I wish you could smell them too….
Our last few Sweet Peas
3 I decided to use the Raspberries that we picked in the summer to make Raspberry Jam and Raspberry Jelly so as to free up space in the freezer. Now they can be stored in jars on the shelves and leave room for all the batch baking of dinners that I am preparing.
Today’s jam and jelly
At Chapelporth the other evening I took this photo of another photographer up high on the rocks.
Taking a photograph of a photographer at Chapelporth
This next was of balancing dancers in Falmouth last summer.
Dancers at The Pavilion in Falmouth in silhouette
I love how this next silhouette of an old engine house chimney has furry edges.
Wheal Busy in silhouette
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I dedicate these photos of Cornwall to my sister, Deborah, whose birthday it is today.
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