There are so many Goldfinches in the garden at the moment that they have to take their turn at the feeders. While they wait, they pick up bits from the grass.
We love our little Mermaid by Carol Buller, a local artist, singer and friend.
These beautiful pink buds hold lovely purple flowers, part of my Suffragette border where all the plants are purple, white or green.
Sadly, I have mislaid the label and cannot remember the name. Help anyone?
A very fluffy tailed squirrel has found our bird feeder.
The other day I bought some new glass topped sewing pins and today I added them to my Mum’s collection in the beautiful patchwork pin cushion that she made. You can see her tiny hand sewn stitches
When we were in Arizona I was given the very special present of a Kachina. This one is called Hahai-i, the Grandmother Kachina, and was a precious present from one Grandmother to another. “The Hopi doll carvers make her effigy in the flat form to be the first present that a baby receives.” From Hopi Kachinas by Barton Wright, a complementary present given at the same time. “Kachinas are the spirit essence of everything in the real world,” and they have truly caught my imagination. My Hahai-I already has companions which we bought in Phoenix at the Heard museum shop. I’ll tell you about those two soon.
Our walk up the lane from town today had lots of beautiful things among them some remarkable white shiny fungi with the delicacy of porcelain. We are hoping T might identify them for us.
Three lovely old trees on the lane had to be cut down a couple of years ago as they were diseased but in their place our council planted three very pretty youngsters whose leaves are turning beautiful shades of red.
There is Honeysuckle still in flower in the hedgerow.
My iPad is not letting me upload photos from Kemeneth so I am going to listen to some music, look at photos of the ocean and go outside to see the stars!
We have had a fabulous day of carnival and singing and the Ordinalia and street food – all as part of Penryn’s Celebration of 800 years being recognised as a town, Gaus Kerensa Kemeneth and tomorrow I will give you all the photos.
For now, just be.
I love the delicacy of this white thistle.
The beauty of St Ives never fails to move me. We were there tonight for a meeting about the very worrying changes to our beloved NHS.
It is International Smiles Day!
This post is for the friends who rescued me today. They know who they are.
I took this photo of our visiting Woodpecker from inside the kitchen while having breakfast. I was about 7 metres away and am pleased with this.
I have a brilliant new project, making a ‘Piece for Peace’. Our main computer is in the Mac Hospital so I will post a link when it comes home. Here are my new materials, the colours not as true as I would like.
Waking up too early, I was lucky enough to catch a lovely dawn sky.
I have painted the small wall near the kitchen over the last couple of days and today we have put back the Three Wise Monkeys which I planted up with little Spring flowers the other day. I tried to clean the copper monkeys to make them shine again. As you can see, neither the copper cleaner nor the lemon juice worked bit we rather like the effect that has been left.
My lovely neighbour and I did a little scrumping today! Now I can make an almost free Blackberry and Apple crumble, having gathered the blackberries the other day.
It is five years today since we took the phone call in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art bringing us the sad news that our beautiful friend, Kath, had died. It is for her memory that I write my blog every day. She was the most positive person I have ever known, full of life and spirit and optimism. She would have loved this daily record of things that have made us smile or say, ‘Wow, that’s beautiful!’
Beautiful fluffy seed heads all along the tracks, bracken golden in the Autumn sunshine, a path in the distance up the hillside of Carn Brea and an excellent picking of blackberries all combined to make this a very satisfying walk
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