1 Sunrise was particularly beautiful this morning. I love the straight line of the clouds and the sunbeams coming in from the left. The name in the title is what dawn used to be known as by farmers in the Eighteenth Century (as I have just learned from a brilliant book I’m reading called ‘The Horologican’ by Mark Forsyth about lost words of the English language)
Sunrise 7:1:13
2 These beautiful hyacinths were given to us for Christmas and are almost in full bloom and smell just lovely. The scent wafts all the way up the stairs. Aren’t they just the loveliest colour?
Hyacinths
3 On a short walk down the lane this afternoon, energy levels being still rather low, I noticed this amazing leafless ivy in the shape of a tree all the way from the bottom to the top of the wall.
Ivy stems
Tags: hyacinths, Mark Forsyth, Postaday, postaday2013, sunrise, The Horologican
1 When I sorted out the children’s room I discovered that the toys on the windowsill had all been sitting in condensation. I put them on the bathroom radiator to dry and they’ve given us smiles each time we’ve been in.
Toys drying off on the bathroom radiator
2 I was told that there is a pattern for the Snowman’s Snowdog in Women’s Weekly magazine so off I went to buy it. There was enough blue sky to make a sailor a pair of pants as my Aunty used to say so I didn’t take an umbrella. Mistake! The heavens opened and I was drenched but I did get my magazine. Next knitting project now decided!
The Snowman’s Snowdog
3 As I arrived home, the stormy shower stopped as suddenly as it began and left us this beautiful sky.
Sky after the stormy shower
Tags: beautiful sky, DPchallenge, knitting pattern, Postaday, postaday2012, project, stormy sky, The Snowman's Snowdog, Women's Weekly magazine
1 Waiting outside the Dr’s for Mr S, I wandered around with my camera and found three beautiful things!
Lichen and moss on copper coloured bark
Weather-beaten buttercup
Cornish Snail
2 J sitting snuggled up on my knee watching The Snowman and The Snowdog while his Mum and Dad packed up the car to leave.
3 Big Goodbye hugs and tears. All eight have left on the same day and the house is far too quiet………
Tags: DPchallenge, lichen, moss, nature, Postaday, postaday2012, tearful goodbyes, The Snowman and The Snowdog
1 Lovely walk in the rain this morning, all togged up and all cobwebs blown away.
Pink wellies in the rain
2 We wondered where this beautiful gate might lead to.
Beautiful old gate
3 Our eldest daughter, M, is with us today, for Christmas lunch no 2, silly games and easy tea of cheese and crackers, L’s homemade sausage rolls all followed by Christmas pud and brandy sauce. D&A were on Skype again so we were ‘all together’ today.
Tags: DPchallenge, family, mystery, Postaday, postaday2012, wellies
1 A very quiet pottery kind of day putting up a few more cards. This delightful one which arrived today has been made by the young son of a very special friend.
Beautiful hand-made card
2 I love these very colourful decorations that should be safe from toddler hands as the fireguard will be up. (No fire will be lit!)
Colourful cane decorations
3 Three of the hyacinths that I brought out of the dark on 3rd December are already in flower! They smell so lovely. Click on the red link if you missed that post.
Hyacinths beginning to flower already
Happy Winter Solstice Day to you all. The days get longer from tomorrow; the sun is coming back!
Tags: hand-made, hyacinths, photographs, Postaday, postaday2012, Winter Solstice
Usually all my beautiful things are from the day on which I post but we’ve just had a wonderful weekend away so today’s post covers Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
1 We had a trip up to Plymouth to see the amazing Jools Holland who just raises the spirits of all who are near him! He is so talented, so generous and clearly enjoys making so many people happy. He smiles his way through the whole performance! It was just fabulous to be able to watch his hands on the big screen. To my delight K T Tunstall was his surprise guest. His drummer, Gilson Lavis was just brilliant!We spent the night in a hotel and next day …….
2 We met two of our lovely daughters, M and L, for lunch in a country pub and then went home with L to her new home where the bird life is just amazing. It was very hard to get photos as they were all so busy going back and forth. There were Nuthatches, Blue tits, Willow tits, Great tits, Coal tits, Robins, Siskin, Chaffinches, Bullfinches, Pheasants and Jays.
3 A walk in the nearby woods this morning with L and T and T’s parents and their five Black Labradors was an utter delight.
Jools Holland at the end of the show
K T Tunstall and Gilson Lavis
Jay in Sampford Courtenay
Cones, catkins and new buds
Rain on the lake
Lichen and moss
Lichen and leaves
Mosses and ivy
Golden lichen
Wood, leaves, mosses and ferns
Just had a paddle
So well trained
Beautiful tree with ferns and moss
Pheasant in the garden
Nuthatch at the peanuts
Cabin built in the woods
Tags: Black labradors, blue tits, Bullfinches, cabin in the woods, Chaffinches, Coal tits, Gilson Lavis, great tits, jays, Jools Holland, K T Tunstall, leaves, lichens, mosses, Nuthatches, Pheasants, Postaday, postaday2012, Robins, Siskin, trees, Willow tits
1 “Every day one should at least hear one little song, read one good poem, see one fine painting and speak a few sensible words” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
I’ve given you the song in Meme’s blog and here’s a poem that I love followed by a fine painting . Goethe’s own words are the sensible ones for today.
2 Don’t Go Far Off by Pablo Neruda
Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because —
because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long
and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station
when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep.
Don’t leave me, even for an hour, because
then the little drops of anguish will all run together,
the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift
into me, choking my lost heart.
Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;
may your eyelids never flutter into the empty distance.
Don’t leave me for a second, my dearest,
because in that moment you’ll have gone so far
I’ll wander mazily over all the earth, asking,
Will you come back? Will you leave me here, dying?
3 This beautiful water colour by Oliver Bedford LRIBA, BWS, SGA 1902 – 1977 is of Pill Creek which I posted photos of yesterday.
Pill Creek by Oliver Bedford
Tags: 1902 - 1977, BWS, Don't Go far Off, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Oliver Bedford, Oliver Bedford LRIBA, Pablo Neruda, Postaday, postaday2012, SGA
1 As a teenager, I used to cycle the 5 miles from Truro to Loe Beach to ‘hang out’ with friends. It is a very beautiful place full of lovely memories.
From Loe Beach
Father and son going out fishing, taken into the sun
Launch
Off they go
Abandoned buoys
Reflections
Bladderwrack glowing in the sun
2 We came to Cornwall from Birmingham when I was 6 years old. Pill Creek was my first real view of Cornwall as we were driven to our first home by an old family friend who had met us at the train station. I’m sure you’ll understand why I fell in love with Cornwall!
Pill Creek – my first view of Cornwall when I was 6
Pill Creek from the house
3 The sky as we drove home became more and more golden and was this wonderful colour by the time we arrived.
Tonight’s sky, Carn Brea Castle, Carn Brea Monument, chimneys and telegraph wires
Tags: cornwall, fishing, kayaking, Loe Beach, photography, Pill Creek, Postaday, postaday2012
1 I see this wonderful old motorbike most weeks on my way home from my piano lesson (Some progress being made there!) The owner was very happy for me to take its photo.
Very old BMW motorbike and sidecar
2 The owner of the dogs was happy too as I asked to take the photo of these two in their beautiful wooly jackets.
Rather lovely dogs in their equally lovely knitted jackets
3 On our walk around the back on The Great Flat Lode Mr S drew my attention to this very beautiful combination of greeny grey lichen and the seed heads of the montbretia.
Greenish grey with dark orange
Tags: BMW, lichen, motorbike with sidecar, Postaday, postaday2012
1 For a number of reasons, I was late to singing this morning and as soon as I approached the room and could hear the gorgeous harmonies of “Lo, the Eastern Sages Rise”, one of our glorious carols, my spirits were lifted. Then I joined in and of course, my spirits soared even more along with the music! Everyone should sing! I know some of my readers will say, “But I can’t!” Bear in mind this Zimbabwean proverb – ‘If you can walk, you can dance and if you can talk, you can sing.’
2 It has been a wild, wild day and these elegant swans were doing their best in the rough water but barely moving.
Swans on the Penryn River
3 I love the fading beauty of these anemones.
Beginning to fade
The veins in this one have become more prominent and the centres have gone blue
HAPPY THANKSGIVING to all my American readers!
Tags: anemones, faded beauty, Happy Thanksgiving, harmonies, Lo the Eastern Sages Rise, Postaday, postaday2012, singing, swans, Zimbabwe, Zimbabwean proverb
