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Bird Feeder, Magnolia Stellata and Horses

1 Our bird feeder broke yesterday so we now have a new one which I assembled this morning. The first birds to appear were not our usual small ones but two monstrous black birds with horny beaks and they ate all the meal worms in moments, one from the feeder, the other catching the ones falling to the ground! I think they were Rooks.

Large bird through the window

2 Our Magnolia Stellata is in flower and is gorgeous.

Magnolia Stellata

3 It’s the Golden Hour and the horses in the back field are enjoying their supper.

Horses feeding in the back field

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 7, 2015 in Beauty, environment, garden, glass, nature, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: golden hour, magnolia stellata

Humanist Ceremony, Daymer Bay and Happiness

06 Apr

What a beautiful day I have had! The sun shone and the air was warm and I went to stunning Daymer Bay to conduct a Humanist Ceremony of Re-affirming Wedding Vows on the cliffs and it was just brilliant! The lovely couple had been married for 6009 days today and it was his birthday.

As a surprise, she had organised friends and family to be on the cliffs and it was just the loveliest, happiest ceremony that brought tears to many an eye. It included a Hand-fasting which I have not done before and many readings done by family and friends, one of the most moving poems being written and read by their lovely daughter. It was so very special and I have permission to share these photos with you. Click on any photo for the caption and detail.

L’s bouquet in my favourite colours

About to go under the confetti arch

Nearly through and everyone very happy

The Hand-fasting ribbons

Cornish Violets growing on the cliff at the Ceremony spot

The Wedding party

Confetti

The view when walking back to my car afterwards

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 6, 2015 in Beauty, Cornwall, family, Happiness, Humanist ceremony, Postaday 2015, Wedding

Tags: Daymer Bay, Hand-fasting, Re-affirmation of wedding vows

Three Toed Sloth, Lunch and A Little Poem

05 Apr

1 I have finished sewing up Grand-baby B’s birthday present. I have completely fallen in love with the gorgeous, cuddly Three Toed Sloth!

Three Toed Sloth

2 It has been a beautiful Spring day today and we have had our first lunch in the garden in the sunshine with the scent of Narcissi in the air.

Mozzarella, Tomato and Avocado Salad with a Balsamic dressing

3 We have tidied up the garden – I have raked the soil in one raised bed to a fine tilth, not for vegetables this year but a whole box devoted to flowers, some of them edible for salads and the lovely Mr S has mown the lawn, weeded and dug in the green manure in another of the raised beds. I have taken no more photos since lunch so I have turned to one of my poetry books, Poem for The Day and found this little gem as today’s poem, Celia, Celia by Adrian Mitchell. It made me smile. I hope you do too.

When I am sad and weary

When I think all hope has gone

When I walk along High Holborn

I think of you with nothing on

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 5, 2015 in Beauty, environment, Food, garden, knitting, photography, poetry, Postaday 2015

Tags: Celia Celia by Adrian Mitchell, Poem for The Day

John Harris, Tregellas Tapestries, and Seed Heads

04 Apr

1 We were in the Cornish Studies Library in Redruth today to see the exhibition about John Harris, Cornish Miner and Poet. It was fascinating to read about his life and his works.

John Harris

2 When in the library, I always love looking at The Tregellas tapestries. I wrote about some of the others (there are 58 beautiful pieces in total) here. Here are three more. Click on any photo for more detail.

Tregellas tapestry – the Tin Route

Cornish Saints

Prehistoric times

3 Walking back up from town, (which I did with ease today, three months on from my Total Hip Replacement – my diary can be found here), I noticed a couple of beautiful seed heads.

Dandelion seed head

Clematis seed head

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 4, 2015 in art, Beauty, Cornwall, embroidery, nature, photography, Postaday 2015, Redruth, Tin mining history

Tags: cornish studies library, John Harris, The Tregellas tapestries, Total Hip Replacement

Eggy Bread, Left Behind and Freesias

03 Apr

1 For their last breakfast this holiday we made eggy bread with all the eggs that had been blown out of the April Fool chocolate eggs. Doused in Golden Syrup, it all went down a treat.

Eggy bread

2 And now they have gone home and everything is too quiet! Their beach toys are outside, waiting to be put in the shed for their next visit.

Spades and fishing nets

3 The Freesias that their Daddy brought with him have now opened and are a beautiful delicate violet with little pale pinky stamens.

Freesias

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 3, 2015 in Beauty, flowers, Food, Grandchildren, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: beach toys, eggy bread, Freesias

Cornish Yarn Chafer, Launch and Lovers

02 Apr

1 This little beetle and many of its friends have been seen in our house and I couldn’t identify it so I sent a photo to my very knowledgeable-about-all-things-wildlife son-in-law. This is what he told me yesterday:

I think it’s a Cornish Yarn Chafer, quite common at this time of year, probably hatched from eggs laid last spring in the fleece of Cornish hill sheep with larvae able to withstand the modern wool production process, a really voracious stitch nibbler.

Rhagium mordax

2 I was at The Penryn River today to watch our boat being launched into the water after its stay in the shipyard over the winter. Here it goes up the river to our mooring nearer to Falmouth.

Skippalong on her way up The Penryn River

3 While I was waiting, I was watching a family of swans on the river, the parents and four one year old cygnets. I was lucky enough to catch the parents chirruping at each other and making a love-heart!

Two swans making a heart shape

The cygnets

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 2, 2015 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, nature, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: Rhagium mordax, swan family, swans with cygnets, The Penryn River

Chocolate Fingers, Family and Grape Hyacinth

01 Apr

1 The April Fool eggs that I made yesterday went down very well with the greatest hilarity happening when their Daddy came to breakfast a bit later and the children were able to play the April Fool joke on him. Their faces were a picture!