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Grand-Baby, Chicken Pie and Woodland Walk

1 Our beautiful Grand -Baby B is safely home after 13 days and we visited today. What a joy! The tiniest cardigan that I made will fit for just another couple of weeks!

Baby B fast asleep

Joining in the singing of Skinnymarinka!

2 We took lunch with us – a beautiful Chicken Pie which went down very well.

Chicken Pie

3 After lunch, we all had a walk in the lovely woodland that surrounds their home finding wild flowers, beautiful trees in bud and even a Red Deer in the distance. The others saw two Roe Deer but I only heard them crashing through the undergrowth.

Bank of Primroses and Violets

Moss covered trees

Signs of Spring

Buds

Look carefully – there’s a Red Deer

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 28, 2013 in animals, environment, flowers, Food, Grandchildren, nature, photography, Postaday2013, trees

Tags: chicken pie, Red Deer, Roe Deer, woodland

Copper Beech, Tree Peony and Porthleven

26 Apr

1 The buds on next door’s Copper Beech are almost ready to burst.

Copper Beech buds ready to burst

2 This Tree Peony that we found in a nursery in The Lizard has flowers of about 6″ across- quite remarkable and very beautiful.

Tree Peony

3 Porthleven was a windy spot this afternoon but the sea in the harbour was such a beautiful colour. It was less windy by the beach but it was still deserted.

Turquoise water in Porthleven Harbour

The beach at Porthleven

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 26, 2013 in Cornwall, flowers, nature, photography, Porthleven, Postaday2013, trees

Tags: copper beech, tree peony, turquoise sea

Weekly Photo Challenge -Up Again

21 Apr

Up in the tree – taken in South Africa. Can anyone help me with identification?

Looking up into a blue Cornish sky yesterday

Looking up into a white daffodil today

The water in the Sailors’ barometer is up so a storm is brewing!

Flags up ready to celebrate a Humanist Baby Naming

Looking up into a walnut tree in Meyssac

Interesting challenge but found a variety of photos with different interpretations that please me. Yesterday’s regular post had a couple of ‘Up’ photos too.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 21, 2013 in birds, environment, flowers, nature, photography, Postaday2013, trees, Weekly photo challenge

Tags: Humanist ceremony, Sailors' barometer, stork, walnut tree

Through a Wet Window, A Sand-dollar and Sakura

10 Apr

1 We have rain today and our Spring flowers, Miniature Daffodils and Grape Hyacinths, look beautiful through the rainy window pane.

Tete a Tete through a rainy window

2 Doing a bit of Spring cleaning today, I came upon this lovely little sand-dollar on a top shelf. It’s over 30 years since our first visit to America to see my brother and we discovered the delicacy of sand-dollars on the beach near Savannah.

Savannah Sand Dollar, only 3 cms across

3 Our perpetual travel diary tells us that today is when the Japanese celebrate their spectacular Cherry Blossom, Sakura. A bit of research shows me that the cherry blossom season last for some weeks but I wanted to share the beautiful poem that is on our calendar today.

From the deep hearts’ core
Of the spring serenity,
Splendid, resplendent,
A perfume has arisen –
The mountain cherry blossoms!

Kamo no Mabuchi, poet
24 April 1697 – 27 November 1769

Wishing all my Japanese readers a beautiful and sensuous Cherry Blossom season.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 10, 2013 in flowers, literature, nature, poetry, Postaday2013, quotations, trees, Words

Tags: cherry blossom, Japanese poetry, Kamo no Mabuchi poet, photography, Sakura, sand dollar

Tulip, Toy Chest and Tree Trunk

04 Apr

1 This delicate tulip was blown over in the bitter winds and has now opened indoors.

Tulip on the window sill

2 The family left at 8.30 this morning and the house is disquietingly quiet! We’ve been putting away the fireguard, stair-gates, baby bean bags and toys. The old chest was my Dad’s. He trundled his books from Britain to Egypt to Bechuanaland in the Second World War and it is has another life now as a toy chest. Some of the toys in it were mine, many were our children’s and some are new for the Grand-babies. The cup-cake cases have been an excellent toy for 2 year old T who has stacked them, named their colours, paired them up and thrown them!