This is what I am needing right now.
I thought you might like to hear my choir singing Kokoleoko but then I found an even more beautiful interpretation of the Liberian folk song. I really love this.
Category Archives: Beauty
Knobs and Knockers
Most of these were taken in Pistoia but odd ones we found in Siena. They pleased me with their variety, their lovely shapes, the wooden doors and the humour. Click on any photo to see the detail.
In San Gimignano
In San Gimignano
In Siena
Love, Doves and Peace
It’s Christmas Eve and I send love and peace to all my Readers out there in the world. 
I love that some of our cards are of doves as friends also wish for peace.
Our family from Spain, visas granted have arrived in London today to spend the first week with siblings and cousins and will be with us for New Year. Great excitement all round!
Raindrops, Leaf and Gaia at Night
Raindrops on the feathery fennel like strings of diamonds when the sunlight hit them.
Outside Truro Cathedral in the queue waiting for the night time showing of Gaia, I noticed a pretty leaf and a heart shaped hole between the cobbles. The couple in front of us in the line were amused to see me taking a photo of the ground and then appreciated what they were seeing too.
Gaia at night was as glorious, if not more so, than when we first saw it last week. Two friends were there too and I caught them admiring the world in all its beauty.
Solstice Sky, Reflections and A Postbox,
What a beautiful sky last night.
I’ve been working with our artist friends next door and the faces are nearing completion. Here are some of them hanging in the trees and creating beautiful reflections. 
I found this photo the other day and just loved it. 
Special Day, Squirrel and A Poem
Today is Mother’s Day in America and my sister, who lives in Hawaii, posted this photo of our beautiful Mum.
We’ve had another squirrel visit today.
14th May is International Dylan Thomas Day and here are just two verses of one of my favourite poems –
Fern Hill
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs
About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,
The night above the dingle starry,
Time let me hail and climb
Golden in the heydays of his eyes,
And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns
And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves
Trail with daisies and barley
Down the rivers of the windfall light.And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns
About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,
In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means,
And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves
Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,
And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.
Beauty, Snowdrops and Three Wise Monkeys
I was lending some books to a friend yesterday when a marker fell out and I was reminded of a paragraph that I liked very much. Here it is.
Excerpt from Still Life by Sarah Winman
There is beauty in our garden at the moment, lovely Snowdrops, more and more appearing……..
and more Iris Reticulata, this time in our Three Wise Monkeys planter, made many years ago for me by a local artist,Jeremy Beswick.
Dawn, Steam and A Tree
Dramatic dawn sky on a bitterly cold morning
After the cold start came some winter sun causing steam to rise from our wooden labyrinth sculpture.
The lovely Mr S went to collect leeks from the allotment this afternoon and took a diversion.
Winter tree with Carn Brea Castle in the far distance . Photo by Mr S
Umbrella, Carrot Bhajis and My Mum
Loved this rainbow umbrella caught in Fore Street, Redruth this morning.
I’ve made a traybake American Spiced Carrot Cake for Volunteer Sunday tomorrow and had too much grated carrot so I made Carrot Bhajis to go with the delicious sausages bought from the Grow Box in town this morning. 
Remembering my lovely, kind and wise Mum today on her birthday.
My Choirs Sang at The MInack!
Enjoy the gallery, photos taken by the lovely Mr S. Click on any photo for the caption and to enlarge. We all certainly enjoyed singing in one of the most beautiful places in the world, Rowena Wade’s Minack Theatre.
Warm up
It’s a long way down
Parrot flower
The Ingleheart Singers coming to the stage
The Ingleheart Singers
Colours
Suitcase Singers coming to the stage
Suitcase Singers
The tenor section
Both choirs together
Our leaders, Claire, chatting afterwards
Resting a moment on the way back up
Porthcurno seas
Mesembryanthemum
