We had a delicious lunch at The Blue Bar in Porthtowan today with our eldest daughter who visited for the day. In between heavy showers, the sky was the loveliest blue and the shades of colour in the sea were gorgeous. 
I love the new mosaic welcoming people to Porthtowan.
If you can, click on the photo and enlarge it to see the lovely bright detail and read all the words in the darker lines.
I wish I could send you the delicious honeyed scent of the choisya ternata.
The four tulips in a tub are here being battered by the wild winds we have today.
We have finished another jigsaw, lots of Arthurian Tales. 
Spring flowers are in abundance everywhere. These I found in the gardens at Burncoose Nurseries.
An extract from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931. This is for our dear friends, J and M.
On Friendship
And a youth said, Speak to us of Friendship.
And he answered, saying:
Your friend is your needs answered.
He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.
And he is your board and your fireside.
For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace……………………………….
And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.
For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
The view from singing this morning showed the trees across the Penryn River beginning to green up.
I called in to Burncoose Nurseries on the way home and found some delicate pink rhododendron blooms and beautiful new bright green tips on an evergreen, a larch maybe.
It’s been a glorious day, blue skies, sunshine and – no wind! Our Tulips open right up to the sun so here are a few of them.
I can’t tell you the names of any of them, sorry!
On this day in 1909, my Great Grandmother, Mary Elizabeth Wiseman, Suffragette, aged 53, was arrested in London having thrown stones to break windows. Subsequently she was imprisoned in Holloway, went on hunger strike, was force fed and was awarded the Suffragette Portcullis Brooch in recognition of her courage.
I bought a new sun hat!
For some reason the following words came into my mind today and then I remembered that Pete Seeger gave the words some music.
from Ecclesiastes
I woke at 2am last night and found the glow of the moon filling the garden. I had my camera hand and, having missed the full moon because of thick cloud, caught this picture of an egg shaped moon. It’s interesting to think that the astronauts are away up there too!
My recipe called for half a head of garlic and I liked the pattern it made. 
One of my birthday presents was a Camellia plant and this weekend it has started flowering. It’s beautiful! Thank you so much A&P!
We had tiny Easter eggs today, sitting in a clay egg-cup made my Daughter no 3 about 40 years ago!
No LiveWres around to decorate the little egg tree so I did it myself. (Thanks Ute for your lovely post that reminded me.)
Our Amanagowa Cherry Tree has started to blossom and is looking lovely in the evening sunshine..
Happy Easter to all my Dear Readers. Hope you can enjoy some sunshine.
Today’s market was great fun – very busy, with brilliant live music and beautifully decorated Easter bonnets at the cake stall. My coffee cake sold out quickly. 🙂
Easter Bonnets
One of the many attractive stall was selling little replicas of our town’s Tinners’ Hounds. I was concerned about the artist but was reassured that he has given permission for the lovely little 3D printed versions.
If you look carefully, up the garden, you can see our Welly Dog original, as well as the delightful miniature
We froze Seville oranges in January so that we could make the marmalade when we had time. Today we have made several month’s worth! 
I also made the coffee cake for tomorrow’s market, the first this year.
My lovely Mr S just managed to catch the woodpecker as it was leaving the feeders. I love this photo of the wings in flight.
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