This poem amused me, based on truth as it is!
Dangerous coats
Reading is a great consolation.
Confucius on reading
Circles of love
Monthly Archives: January 2019
Reflections, Pink and Heart
Singing was lovely as always with the backdrop of The Penryn River.
Up The Penryn River
Walking back this morning, I spotted several lovely Camellias.
Pink Camellia
The following came my way today and I thought I would share it.
I love this!
Crenelations, Gulls and Sun on the Water
More sun today! Porthtowan was our destination for a bitterly cold walk along the beach, arriving through the valley past the old workings of the Tywarnhayle Copper Mines.
Tywarnhayle Copper Mine with the unusual crenelations at the top of the chimney
Birds on the beach
Low sun on the water at Porthtowan
Gorse, Sunset and The Mittens
The sun came out late this afternoon, for the first time in many days, so off we went to the coast for a glimpse of the ocean. The bright gold of the Gorse was lovely in the fading light having a glow all of its own.
Gorse and the sea off St Agnes
The glow of sunset clouds is always a joy.
Fire in the sky
As we have taken all the cards etc down we have found the perfect space for a beautiful little painting which came as a Christmas present, a delightful reminder of our holiday in Monument Valley. Our friends watched the painting being done and thought of us!
Beautiful painting of The Mittens by Baje Whitethorne
Angels, Heirloom and Myths
The Christmas Angels are still flying in our lovely small town of Redruth.
Redruth’s Angels
We’ve been tidying away all the Christmas things today, among them, this beautiful bowl with its matching ladle. We always use it for bread sauce for Christmas dinner. It is the last piece of a dinner service that my Mum and Dad were given as a Wedding present in 1939 so is a very special treasure to me.
Minton bowl and ladle
I have loved myths and legends since I was very young so to be given Neil Gaiman’s Norse Mythology for Christmas was a real treat. I have so enjoyed reading these tales again and loved this fresh interpretation.
Norse mythology by Neil Gaiman
Blue, Orange and White
Our walk this afternoon threw up some little treasures – a Christmas sparkle on the pavement; a Nasturtium still in flower and a little feather on Church Lane.
Blue snowflake sprinkle
Orange Nasturtium
White Feather
Six on Saturday – Foliage in Winter
Inspired by a couple of blogging pals, I have decided to join in on Six on Saturday.which looks like fun, especially for those of us who love our gardens. My six are all foliage in our garden today, some especially for Piglet in Portugal as they are relevant to her post where she talks about Agapanthus.
1. We grown most of ours in pots as we read that they like crowded roots but the ones in the ground do well too. They grow in profusion all around Cornwall but not as wildly as in South Africa.
Agapanthus with one left-over flower head
2 Piglet was also asking about hedges. We have two of Pittosporum Tenufolium – in the back, a lovely light hedge of the variegated version. I love the speckle effect and the pink/cream borders to the crinkly leaves. It has tiny red/brown flowers too in late Spring/ early Summer but they are so small they are easily missed. You can see a flower here taken in 2016.
Pittosporum Tenuifolium variegatum
3. Mixed in with this we have a few of the ordinary green one.
Pittosporum Tenuifolium
4. In the front garden, behind the Himalayan Birch, we grow the Tom Thumb version which has the same delightful wavy leaves but they are dark purple and come from black stems – very dramatic. The light has made it look quite pink. It is much darker than it appears here.
Pittosporum Tenuifolium Tom Thumb
5. One of the Clematis that grows up the trellis has turned a glorious bronze colour not unlike Copper Beech.
Clematis
6. The last in today’s six is in my shade garden along with lots of ferns. Sadly, I have lost the label and forgotten its name……..
Can anyone help me remember the name of this one?
Knitting, Ankles and Another Poem
Last morning for the LiveWires to be here and T wanted to learn how to knit. She made excellent progress in the short time we had.
T’s first knitting
This afternoon I had repeat steroid injections in both ankles. The last ones I had were last February and they lasted many months giving me pain free ankles. Here’s hoping these do too.
Ankles prepped for steroid injections
It’s still very early in this new year of 2019 so here is another appropriate poem for you.
The Year – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times?The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our brides, we sheet our dead.We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that’s the burden of the year.
Looking, Leaping and A Poem
Beach with the LiveWires this morning was cold but fun.
Looking out to sea
Leaping over a stream
I was sent this thoughtful New Year poem as a present this morning with permission to publish here if I wished. I do – so here it is for you to enjoy as well.
Poem for the new year (1995)
No more haunted houses,
stale-breathed walls
No more picking our way
around scrabbled ruins, choked
by the hold of generations
No more drawing at dry wells,
weaving whole cloth from
rags, brilliant
with their years and stories.
That’s right – begin here,
with the awe of
a new imagination,
a life still dangerously fresh,
precariously pink
at the bone,
a peach skin split,
flesh free from the stone,
juice drumming urgent
through your fingers –
begin with this.c Karen Mittelman
Day Out with the LiveWires
We’ve had a fabulous day full of adventures at The Eden Project. Here’s a gallery of some of our day.
The Biomes from the bridge
In the Rain Forest Biome
The crested partridge (Rollulus rouloul) in the Rain Forest Biome where they eat bugs and cockroaches and generally clear up.
Running over the wobbly footbridge
Running over the wobbly footbridge
In the Rain Forest Biome
On the way to the top staircase
In the Mediterranean Biome
Infinity Blue info
Infinity Blue info
Infinity Blue blowing smoke rings
