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26 Aug

We went for an early morning walk with my camera.

I liked these leaves because they look like the night sky with stars on them.

The moon was still up

Carn Brea Castle

Unidentified pink flower

We saw a cat

After breakfast at the Blue Bar , a treat to celebrate Granny and Grandad’s 57th wedding anniversary, I went for a walk up the cliffs with Mummy.

Flowers on the table in the Blue Bar

Turquoise sea with chocky waves

Cliffs

Caterpillar walking across the path

Gorse and heather

We decided to make tasty Choc Chip cookies this afternoon.

Biscuit the Hamster ready to eat a cookie.

Cookies ready to be cookiefied

Baked cookies ready to be eaten

Special heart cookie for my Mummy and Daddy to share

I found these in the garden later.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 26, 2024 in baking, caterpillars, Cornwall, flowers, garden, nature, photography, Porthtowan, Postaday 2024, Sea

Tags: Blue Bar Porthtowan

Caterpillar, Granny’s Mirror and Cor Serenata

16 Aug

1 Sitting looking at our one year old Malus, I was thinking how few leaves there were and that at the top there was a rather strange leaf. On closer inspection I found an enormous caterpillar, very beautiful in his own way but I’m not happy that he is demolishing the Crab Apple! I think it’s a Hawk moth caterpillar.

Voracious caterpillar

2 My Granny used to keep this little steel mirror in her handbag and, as a little girl, I was allowed to get it out now and again. I loved the painted side . The other side is just plain.

Granny’s mirror

3 Tonight, some of us went to meet Cor Serenata, the choir from Port Talbot with whom we are doing a concert tomorrow night. It was a delightful evening with them singing in the garden of the hotel and being much appreciated by the other guests. You can still get tickets for the concert at St Andrew’s Church in Redruth if you are a local! (from me or from the Health Food Shop in town) . There was a beautiful sunset to be seen from the hotel lawn while they were singing.

Tonight’s sunset

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on August 16, 2013 in Beauty, caterpillars, nature, photography, Postaday2013, singing

Tags: concert, Cor Serenata, sunset, Welsh choir

Turtle, Baby Swallows and Mullein Moth Caterpillar

10 Jul

1 On this gloriously sunny day we went to visit friends for a Pool Party! The sun lit up the surface of the water and made a lovely turtle shaped shadow.

Turtle in the pool

2 There was a nest of swallows in their shed and the babies were just getting ready to fly. Just before we arrived there were five babies lined up on the beam. When we went in to look, one little baby was clinging to the wall and another was still in the nest but all the others seemed to have flown out into the sunshine to join their parents.

“I’m staying here in our nest.”

“How do I get off here now?”

3 Some very beautiful and voracious Mullein Moth caterpillars were devouring Scrophularia nodosa – there was hardly a leaf to be seen, just a few flowers left. There were at least a dozen on each plant, very busily munching away.

Mullein moth caterpillar having shredded Scrophularia nodosa

Mullein Moth Caterpillar shredding Scrophularia Nodosa

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 10, 2013 in Beauty, birds, caterpillars, environment, nature, photography, Postaday2013

Tags: Mullein moth caterpillar, Scrophularia nodosa, swallows

Beautiful Creatures Found in One Garden in Nepal, October 2012

26 Nov

All these were seen in two cafe gardens where we stopped off for a drink on the long coach journey between Chitwan National Park and Pokhara. If anyone can help me to identify them I would be absolutely delighted!