It was a cold and windy day for a walk in very welcome bright sunshine along the cliffs at St Agnes. 
The gorse along the cliffs was glowing yellow.
Driving home we followed a kiss in the sky.
Category Archives: environment
Sea, Furze and A Sky Kiss
Rose, Lunch and Crocus
A gorgeous bouquet of white roses, lilies and greenery arrived yesterday for the lovely Mr S.
Frittata for lunch today
We have some crocuses and they have collected raindrops.
Swan and Dwarf Irises
The tide was out at the Penryn River this morning when we went to sing at the Zed Shed. A lone swan had walked in the mud and was preening itself.
Two more Iris Reticulata have opened, sorry I don’t know their names. I love how raindrops collect on their petals. There’s a name for that effect but I can’t bring it to mind. Perhaps, you, Dear Reader, will remember it..
Happiness Calendar and A Good Day Out
The lovely Mr Smith’s birthday is today so his chosen trip was to St Ives and the Tate followed by lunch at his favourite place in Penzance, Mr Billy’s.
Porthminster Beach
Very tame and photogenic Robin on our walk into town
Fenced off sink-hole on Porthminster Beach
Looking over the wall towards St Ives and Harbour Beach, tide coming in
Looking over the wall towards St Ives, tide coming in
On the way through we called in at a new gallery, The Livingstone, and I totally fell for a wonderful pair of earrings. Sadly, they were being sold with a necklace that I didn’t want (and I couldn’t afford the whole set anyway). 
About Ken Spooner, the artist
I loved this van belonging to a decorator, parked near the harbour.
Work going on at the Tate, Porthmeor Beach beyond
Tide in
It has been a very Happy birthday day – family phone calls, cards and presents and serendipitously bumping into good friends in Tate St Ives!
Community Roots Volunteer Tuesday
Another cold, damp day but the volunteers’ spirits are never dampened. Just see what’s growing, what’s being harvested, the new beds being prepared – and all the smiling faces. The solemn faces only showed when the serious business of consuming delicious, freshly prepared vegetable soup was the job in hand.
New seeds all sorted into families
Harvesting leeks
Edging the beds
Tiny onion plants pricked out
Edging the beds
New bed made this morning
Weeding in a polytunnel
Polytunnel crops
Washing the newly harvested carrots
Bringing the bread to have with the soup
Coming in for lunch
Concentrating on eating the delicious veggie soup
Raindrops, Blue and A Jay
I always love seeing raindrops hovering on flower petals. Our Iris Reticulata, Harmony, one of the miniature irises which we grow in old chimneys, were holding raindrops this morning.
In a bunch, their blue is quite magnificent.
We visited a friend today and saw a beautiful Jay through the window. Of the eight photos I took , this is the only one where it was still enough for a moment. 
Sage, Tie Dye and Sunset
At Community Roots today we prepared Willow whips for planting and then I worked with P and G to take cuttings from the rather tired sage plant while the lovely Mr S worked on other jobs.
In November we put elastic bands on the veg bags so that they could be tie dyed. Today we undid them and this is the one I worked on.
We caught the sunset, the new moon and Venus in one shot this evening.
Beach, Selfie and Pins
Such a beautiful day with bright sun and the bluest of skies so we went to the beach and one of our Hooligan friends came with us.
Toddler in wellies in the waves, Porthtowan, Wheal Coates on the cliffs
Us three
One of our young Hooligan Art Community friends has been back to Kyiv in between her visits here and she brought us all gifts of pins. Mine means Freedom and Will and joins my Ukrainian flag on my bag. The lovely Mr S has the military roadblock being used to stop Russian tanks and Sue-next-door has the word for bread (palianytsia) , a word that Russians can’t say so it is used to establish nationality.
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- Freedom, will
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- Roadblocks
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- Palianytsia
Miniature Iris
Our Iris Reticulata have two open flowers. I think they might be called George and I know that a blogger friend will be able to confirm or give me the right name. 
Snowdrops, Ice and Irises
Snowdrops, of course, survived the snowfall of yesterday.
The melty ice is always pretty.
Our Iris Reticulata are braving the weather too – it’s so good to see signs of Spring.
