Yesterday in Truro the planters were looking gorgeous.
Meanwhile, in our garden….
Category Archives: Truro
Spring Flowers
More Blue Skies
Another beautiful crisp winter day with gorgeous blue skies. After a delicious breakfast with good friends, full of chat and cheer, we drove home and I managed to get a shot of Truro Cathedral through the winter branches.
Truro Cathedral – Three Views
Today was one of those gloriously cold, crisp and sunny Autumn days so we went off to Truro for our first trip in 6 weeks. It was a fabulous day! I do love Truro, the city where I grew up. Here are three views of the Cathedral as we went about our wander.
From Boscawen Street looking up Cathedral Lane
From St Mary’s Street
From the roof top car park
A Poem, Flowers and Sewing
I found this poem a few days ago and it so echoes my philosophy of looking for joy in the smallest of things.
Today I found joy in the flowers all over the city of Truro where we went shopping, here on the window sill of the bank. 
This afternoon, my joy was sewing – again. I am working on a zany project with my lovely neighbour. For the moment the project is secret, prior to a production going ahead later this month. I am helping to make dollies with character. I’ll take another photo of this one as its crocheted green mohican hairdo doesn’t show well enough here.
Post Box Topper, Flowers and Earrings
We passed this delightful scene on our way to the garden centre to buy lots of bulbs for the Spring. I so admire the imagination and the talent that go into all the various creations. 
Later we were in Truro with our son, who returns to Barcelona tomorrow, to find some surprises to be taken home. The hanging baskets around the city are truly beautiful, full of colour and obviously carefully tended.
I am loving wearing my new earrings, my anniversary present from my lovely Mr S.
The fish are silver and all the stones different, made by a local artist whose name I am trying to track down. Bought in Hayle.
Guest Blogger Catch-up
On Thursday, I went to choir with Granny as I always do. This session was extra special as it was ‘Sing for your heart’ instead of regular choir. So it wasn’t just the Suitcase Singers but it was also people from the public who wanted to just sing for their hearts. At the end we did a sound bath where me and Granny and other pairs stood back to back surrounded by a circle of basses, altos and sopranos. First the basses sang a hollowing note then the altos joined in with perfect harmony and finally the sopranos sang an angelic high note as a cherry on top. As they got closer and closer towards us in the middle, the sound got fuller and fuller. Everything in my mind was still and empty and at that point it was almost like white noise in the most beautiful way. I recommend.
We went to Truro to mooch about the shops and swerve around the cobbles. We also had our delicious Cornish pasties and no pesky seagulls stole them. 
Before our delicious feast this evening, we went to see my great Grandmama and Grandadad’s bench which was dedicated to them. It was a simple yet beautiful sight to see and lovely to see how much beloved they were by our family.
Granny and Grandad took us, as well as my Uncle and Auntie, to Home Ground in Redruth where we had pizzas, pasta and many servings of Tiramisu.
Tiramisu
HomeGround, outdoor section
Walking home after dinner, three ‘kids’ and one LiveWire. Three of us went home by car!
See you guys soon, can’t wait to be back!
New Recipe, Lily and Blooms
I saw a recipe last week that looked and sounded delicious – Juicy Peach Raspberry Cake – and I made it today. It did taste good but didn’t look as good as the original. My peaches were white not orange which made a difference but I was able to use some of our own raspberry crop which is excellent this year.
Our Lily buds have opened at last. Their scent is filling the garden.
We went by Truro today and the flower display along the dual carriageway is wonderful. I took this photo from a moving car and although out of focus I love the serendipity of it looking as if the car has a roof full of flowers!
A Stroll, Lost Letters and Spires
After breakfast with dear friends, we took a stroll around Boscawen Gardens.
In Truro, we spotted some little letters from a bracelets in the water of the Leats.
Lost letters in the Leats
From the top of the car park we could just see the tops of the three spires of the cathedral.
Three Spires of Truro Cathedral
A Hedgehog
The hedgehogs on the Trafalgar Roundabout in Truro have been smartened up after their hard winter and are looking well. Many thanks to M for the photo.
Flowers, Flags and Sunset
In Truro today, to meet my brother and SIL for lunch – how rarely I can say that as they live in Atlanta, Georgia, USA – we were impressed by the gorgeous baskets of flowers.
The flags in Victoria Square as we were waiting for the bus were blowing in the breeze.
A beautiful sunset looked likely so we chanced it and went to the cliffs at St Agnes and there it was, utterly lovely. 
