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A Good Read, A Walk and A Bullfinch

I have just finished one of those books that one doesn’t want ever to end, one where one really cares about the characters. It is ‘Delicious’ by Ruth Reichl and was recommended by a good friend in Vermont.

Mr S went for a proper walk today along the Great Flat Lode and took some photos for me to show me what is waiting for me up there.

The Great Garden Bird Watch was this weekend but we couldn’t do it then so we spent an hour today. We saw thirteen different species in the hour including a pair of Bullfinches and a Buzzard.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 27, 2015 in Beauty, books, environment, nature, photography, Postaday 2015

Tags: bird watching, Ruth Reichl

Crochet Cot Blanket, Bird Watching and Sunset

21 Feb

1 Had a lovely visit with L who is only 7 weeks off having her baby. She is using some of my Granny’s crochet squares which my Mum had kept for ever and making them into a cot blanket. The blanket will have been made by the baby’s Mum and his/her Great Great Granny! What a treasure that will be.

Crochet squares made by the baby’s Great Great Granny

2 From L&T’s window can be seen a great variety of bird life including a Cock Pheasant and his four lady friends, two pairs of Woodpeckers, multitudes of Tits, Nuthatches, Siskins, Robins, Jays, Blackbirds, Dunnocks, Chaffinches and Sparrows.

Cock pheasant and two of his wives

Woodpecker

3 Driving home into the sunset, the sun’s rays were quite dramatic in the obnubilating sky. New word? It was to me too. See this post.

Sun’s rays

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 21, 2013 in birds, craft, crochet, environment, family, Grandchildren, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Uncategorized

Tags: bird watching, cot blanket, crochet, Great Great Granny, photography, Postaday, postaday2013

Tree Trunk, Periwinkle and Wren

27 Dec

1 A brief walk this afternoon down Lovers Lane and back up Chapel Walk and we found this lovely old cut-down tree trunk with moss. Looking up at the tree there was beautiful bark and a tangle of branches.

Looking up the tree

Bark and ivy

Cut section of trunk

2 There’s a Periwinkle flowering in the front garden.

Periwinkle

3 J and I spent a happy half hour watching the birds at the feeders in the back garden He can identify all of them! The highlight of the afternoon was a tiny wren who stayed around long enough to have its photo taken.

Tiny wren

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 27, 2012 in birds, DP Challenge, environment, family, garden, Grandchildren, nature, photography, postaday2012, Uncategorized

Tags: bird watching, DPchallenge, Lovers' Lane, periwinkle, Postaday, postaday2012, trees, wren

Bird Bonanza, Green Gym and Reflections (Special Photo Challenge Inspiration)

23 Nov

1 In a lull between storms we went for a walk from Helston to Loe Bar through fields, woodland, swampy mangroves, alongside the biggest freshwater lake in Cornwall and along the cliffs above Loe Bar – a brilliant walk for photographs!

Having our picnic before we set off we saw so many beautiful little birds – Goldfinches Long tail tits, Blue-tits, Coal tits, a Wren and a couple of Goldcrests and some Pied Wagtails, more than we’ve seen in our garden for a long time. On the walk we saw cormorants and ducks of all kinds and a couple of hawks.

Goldcrest

Cormorant?

2 All along the way I was amused to discover ‘The Green Gym’ for those for whom the walk was not exercise enough!

The Green Gym 1

The Green Gym with Loe Pool in the background

3 The reflections in the pool and in the puddles were beautiful. I took a self portrait of me doing what I love , taking photographs of beautiful things in the great outdoors!