Another gloriously bright and bitter Autumn day so a beach walk called.
Beach at Godrevy
The patterns in the sand always please me.
Concave or convex?
The rock formations are beautiful.
Swirling rock formations like taffy
Category Archives: Godrevy
Eggs, Seals and A VW Beetle
Our lovely friends who keep chickens keep us supplied with beautiful fresh eggs. These came with a feather!
Very fresh eggs
Our walk today took us along the cliffs to Mutton Cove where seals hang out.
Seals at Mutton Cove
In the car park was a lovely old VW Beetle, much older than my fifteen year old beauty, and immaculately kept.
An old VW Beetle
Interloper, Grasses and One Love
Sitting reading in the garden this afternoon, I noticed a red petal among the sapphire blue of the Agapanthus.It’s a stray blossom from the Crocosmia called Lucifer.
Lovely contrast
Sunset highlighted the shapes of the grasses at Godrevy this evening.
Grasses against the sunset
We love this series of YouTube videos, Playing for Change, Songs around the World. It is such a delight to see so many musicians from all over the world playing the same piece with such joy. I hope you enjoy it too.
Rainbow Colours, Edward Thomas and Leftover Snow
I’ve been sorting through my fabric stash for stuff that I can put into the sewing box for LiveWire 3. I think the felt will be the best for her, both bright and easy to sew.
Felt colours for T
As I am writing this post, an Edward Thomas poem has been read on the news with a comment that the thaw is now happening over most of the UK. About time for some further North, where there have even been airdrops of essential foodstuffs in Cumbria, to villages cut off for 5 days.
Thaw by Edward Thomas
Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass.
Delightful isn’t it, the thought that the rooks are observing the coming of Spring which we, as yet, can’t always see.
Here is another shot of Godrevy taken a couple of days ago when the last shreds of snow were still to thaw.
Thawing snow at Godrevy
What a Difference a Day Makes!
After four freezing snow and wind-filled days, first there was rain to melt most of the snow and then glorious and truly warm sunshine so off we went for a walk along the coast at Godrevy. It was a gloriously peaceful walk given the past four rather fraught days.
Leftover snow and the Godrevy lighthouse
Haematopus ostralegus, Oyster catchers on a rock with Gulls who have just landed
From Godrevy across to St Ives in warm winter sun
Seal – look at his whiskers!
We met a beautiful dog who was having a wonderful time dashing about but who stopped and posed for us when asked by his owner!
Jake, who is blind
Crocuses, Sunset and A Poem
Some Crocuses have popped up on the opposite side of the garden from our Suffragette garden which is a pleasant surprise.
Purple and white among the green
It has been a bitterly cold and beautifully bright day so we headed out to see the sunset.
Sunset over St Ives from Godrevy
A new poem came my way a couple of days ago and I share it here – Wait by Galway Kinnell. The lines that drew me to it especially were those about pain. Wait long enough and everything will become interesting again.
Wait – Galway Kinnell
Wait, for now.
Distrust everything if you have to.
But trust the hours. Haven’t they
carried you everywhere, up to now?
Personal events will become interesting again.
Hair will become interesting.
Pain will become interesting.
Buds that open out of season will become interesting.
Second-hand gloves will become lovely again;
their memories are what give them
the need for other hands. The desolation
of lovers is the same: that enormous emptiness
carved out of such tiny beings as we are
asks to be filled; the need
for the new love is faithfulness to the old.
Wait.
Don’t go too early.
You’re tired. But everyone’s tired.
But no one is tired enough.
Only wait a little and listen:
music of hair,
music of pain,
music of looms weaving our loves again.
Be there to hear it, it will be the only time,
most of all to hear your whole existence,
rehearsed by the sorrows, play itself into total exhaustion.
Readers who follow these posts will know that ten days ago I had a steroid injection in both ankles to, hopefully, dissipate the pain therein. For four days I walked on sunshine. Now, things are somewhat better but not the bliss I first experienced, sadly.
Kestrel, Cake and Universal Children’s Day
On our very windy walk today at Godrevy, we marvelled at how the Kestrel could hover so well in the wildness that was blowing us about.
Kestrel hovering over the cliffs at Godrevy
I baked today – Blueberry Streusel Cake to take next door where we went for a delicious Allotment lunch!
Blueberry Streusel Cake
A good friend from choir told me that today is Universal Children’s Day and sent me the following photos of amazing sculptures at the Children of the World Monument at Nordkapp. The information comes from a blog I found: “The “Children of the World” sculpture was started in 1988 when author Simon Flem Devold randomly selected seven children from seven countries – Tanzania, Brazil, USA, Japan, Thailand, Italy and Russia — to visit the North Cape to dream of “Peace on Earth“. During their seven day visit, each of the 8-to12-year-old children made a clay relief symbolizing friendship, hope, joy and working together. In 1989 the reliefs were enlarged, cased in bronze and erected in a semi-circle outside the North Cape Hall. A “Mother and Child “monument by sculptor Eva Rybakken points toward the seven disks.” The last photo is from the blog too.
Mother and Child -monument by sculptor Eva Rybakken
