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Dusk in Monument Valley
Early morning Monument Valley
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Monthly Archives: September 2014
Beach, Horses and Poor Bird
1 What a lovely day with Daughter no 3 and family visiting. Grand-baby B loved the beach…….
Digging
2 …… and loved watching the horses from her Daddy’s shoulders.
Look! Horses!
3 Sadly, this poor young female Bullfinch killed herself by flying into the window. Just look at the delicacy of the feathers on her back and the beauty of her tail feathers. What a remarkable little creature.
Young female Bullfinch
Magpies, Fuchsia and Dahlia
1 So many Magpies in our neighbours’ tree last evening – in the words of an old English Nursery rhyme, eleven for health, that would be good! Glad there weren’t 13! You may need to click on the photo to see them all.
One for Sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl
Four for a boy
Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told
Eight for a wish
Nine for a kiss
Ten a surprise you should be careful not to miss
Eleven for health
Twelve for wealth
Thirteen beware it’s the devil himself.
Magpie meeting, photo by Mr S
2 The sunlight on the Fuchsia lit them up beautifully and just as I took the photo, a bee settled.
Fuchsia and bee
3 There’s a new bud on the Dahlia – the sunlight lit that beautifully too.
Dahlia bud
The Falmouth Tall Ships Regatta – Parade of Sail
It was so brilliant being on the water to see the Parade of Sail! The water was really crowded, everyone intent on accompanying the Parade of Sail as the Tall Ships from Poland, France, Holland, Portugal, Germany, Britain and more prepared for the Race to Greenwich. It was really exciting to be so close to these beautiful boats, to see their amazing sails and rigging and all the enormous numbers of sailors involved – and we had the most glorious day for it. All the headlands were lined with people, hundreds and hundreds had turned out to enjoy the spectacle. Click on any photo for detail. I’ve named the ones I can.
P.S. The estimate of visitors was in fact well over 100,000 and the flotilla accompanying the fleet the largest ever seen in Falmouth!
Sailors on the rigging
The Polish ship, Dar Mlodzizy
Fishing boat out to see the Tall Ships
We met our friends in Echo out on the water!
Stavros S Niarchos
I love this shot!
Rounding Pendennis Head. Look closely to see the spectators
Crowded waters
Iris
St Piran’s flag as a sail
Eldorado
Sails unfurled on the biggest ship, Dar Mlodzizy
Sails and rigging
Morgenster
Kapitan Borchardt
Pelican of London
Mercedes
Gulden Leeuw
The Lifeboat accompanied the flotilla too, the nominated charity for the Falmouth Tall Ships regatta
