It’s still possible to pick enough flowers for a friend’s birthday.
The view as we walked through the gardens of the Meudon hotel is fabulous.
At the bottom of the gardens is Bream Cove with a view across the Falmouth.
Category Archives: Cornwall
Birthday Bouquet and Two Views
Basket, Pancakes and Clematis
There are still lots of lovely colourful baskets of flowers in Truro.
I made Lemon and Raisin Pancakes for a treat this afternoon.
We brought in a couple of Clematis flowers today.
Bag, Stickers and Angels
My bag for the People’s Vote March next Saturday arrived today along with a couple of stickers, in Cornish.
I have now completed eight stained glass angels for the Christmas market. Here are a couple, all reclaimed glass, some. of. it. Victorian, and re-cycled bits of jewellery.
Blues, Lilac and Skeletons
A glorious afternoon so off we went to walk by the sea. Join us – it was bracing!
Blues
I spotted something purple on the very edge of the cliff so zoomed in (the cliffs are unstable here so I didn’t get close) and found a flower which looks like Sea Thrift but is the wrong colour and the wrong season. I’m hoping someone can help me identify them – HeyJude maybe?
Not Thrift?
The seed heads were delicately beautiful skeletons.
Seed head
And Sallie’s Ice-cream van was there!
Reflections and Our Concert
Just one picture for today, mast reflections taken last Saturday at Mylor.
Home late after a brilliant concert that was greatly appreciated by our packed audience in St Euny Church where the acoustics are wonderful. There may be photos later.
Mural, Plastic Bottles and Cacti
The mural outside one of my favourite shops, Just Delights, has recently been done for winter. The mural is changed each season and pleases me every time I drive through to choir. To find the others, put mural into the search.
By Elizabeth Perry
After singing today, I did my shift in Fannie and Fox, the lovely gallery in Penryn where my glass now sells. It is a real pleasure to sit among so many beautiful things. Here are some for you to see.
Made of discarded plastic bottles by Rebecca Sims
Wall panels by Julie Howe
Knitted cacti by Sarah Perry
Downpour, Garden Flowers and Mary Oliver
We got caught in a downpour when shopping in town so we popped into our favourite coffee shop, Home Ground, to shelter and have some excellent coffee. There were roses on the window ledge.
There are still flowers in our garden despite the wind and rain. I decided to bring some in to enjoy indoors.
I have shared Mary Oliver’s poems before and this seemed so apt for these nights that are drawing in earlier and earlier, not eight o’clock tonight but by seven o’clock it was properly dark.
Lamps – Mary Oliver
Eight o’clock, no later
You light the lamps,
The big one by the large window,
The small one on your desk.
They are not to see by—
It’s still twilight out over the sand,
The scrub oaks and cranberries.
Even the small birds have not settled
For sleep yet, out of the reach
Of prowling foxes. No,
You light the lamps because
You are alone in your small house
And the wicks sputtering gold
Are like two visitors with good stories
They will tell slowly, in soft voices,
While the air outside turns quietly
A grainy and luminous blue.
You wish it would never change—
But of course the darkness keeps
Its appointment. Each evening,
An inscrutable presence, it has the final word
Outside every door.
