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Weekly Photo Challenge – Escape – into our Flower-filled Cornish Lanes

Our Cornish hedges are filled with colour at the moment, pinks, whites and blues abound with golds and soft yellows and the lime greens of new leaf growth. As we drive by, these all become beautiful blurs of mixed hues so I walked around the block, as it were, to capture the colours for you. I wish I could also bring you the quietness, the birdsong, the smells and the peace that came with taking all these photos for you. Click on any photo for more detail.

Bluebells with a Gren Veined White butterfly

Primroses

Pennywort with flowers

Pink Valerian

Pink Valerian close-up

Hedge bottom

Glorious golden Gorse or Furze

Dandelion

Cow Parsley

Celandine

Three Cornered Leeks – their stems are triangular and they are edible.

Blue and gold

Dog Violets, also edible

English Pink and Bluebells

Pink Campion

Celandines

Foxgloves in bud

Fiddlehead ferns

White dead nettle, edible

Bright green new growth of Crocosmia

Bluebells and Three Cornered Leeks

Delicate dandelion seedhead

Pink Clover

Is this a Lesser Stitchwort?

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 21, 2013 in butterflies, Cornwall, environment, flowers, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Weekly photo challenge

Tags: bluebells, celandines, dandelions, dog violets, edible flowers, primroses, three cornered leek, valerian, wild flowers

Bluebells, Fern and Sculpture

07 May

1 Spring has sprung all of a sudden! In the days that I was away, the bluebells down the lanes are casting their beautiful blue haze and flowers in neighbours’ gardens are glowing. I wish I could send you the scent of the wallflowers.

Bluebells down the lane

Bluebells and primroses

Tulips and Forget-me-nots

Wallflowers

2 Ferns in the hedgerows are unfurling. I just love the furriness and the curliness of young ferns.

Unfurling fern

3 Everyone is enjoying the Spring sunshine, especially this old fellow in his cloth cap on the bench outside the garden centre.

Enjoying the sunshine – Sculpture by Richard Austin

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 7, 2013 in environment, flowers, garden, nature, photography, Postaday2013, sculpture, senses

Tags: bluebells, primroses, Richard Austin, sculptor, Spring Flowers, wallflowers

Rock Pool Treasures, Bluebells and A Cloudy Sky

12 Apr

1 Solace to be found in a walk by the sea was needed this afternoon and Falmouth was the place. Crunching through the shingle, listening to the susurration of the waves, breathing in the sea air and investigating the rock pools combined to be balm for the soul. Click on any photo for an enlargement.

Red seaweed

Beautiful striata in the rocks

Seaweed and sea snails in a rock pool

Heart shaped stone in the sand

Limpet

Seaweed

Stone sculpture

Bright yellow sea snail in a rock pool

Anenemone waving in the wind disturbed rock pool

Delicate pink seaweed

2 The bluebells are beginning to come into bloom and are quite beautiful.

Bluebells

3 The sky became overcast and quite moody, then as we were leaving I spotted this sign inside the street seller’s stall.

Dark and moody sky

Sign that made me smile

For those of you following for some time, you’ll know that we have been expecting our next Grandbaby. She arrived on Wednesday evening but is very poorly indeed. Finding beautiful things has always been part of my coping strategy from the time when we ourselves had a desperately ill baby needing three operations on his heart (he survived), the loss of dear ones including my beloved Mum and Dad and my friend of 30 years, Kath, to whom this blog is dedicated and whenever extra strength is needed. Somehow, I will continue to find the strength, the beauty and hope. Forgive me if I don’t get around to reading and commenting for a while.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 12, 2013 in Falmouth, family, Grandchildren, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Sea, senses, Uncategorized

Tags: bluebells, fear, photography, postaday2013, rock pools

Iris, Bluebells with Buttercups and Lemon and Clementine Parfait

20 May

1 Just one iris open – but so beautiful, like a butterfly.

Iris

2 Went to Tregajorran for singing this evening and where I parked was this glorious collection of bluebells and buttercups.

Bluebells and Buttercups

3 We had friends round for dinner last night and I made the most delicious pudding! Lemon Curd and Clementine Parfait, an adaptation of a Nigel Slater recipe. To find step-by-step photos and the recipe, visit my page http://mybeautfulthings.com/food-recipes-and-photos/lemon-curd-and-clementine-parfait/

Lemon Curd and Clementine Parfait

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 20, 2012 in baking, environment, flowers, Food, garden, music, nature, singing

Tags: bluebells, buttercups, food, friends, fun, iris, lemon curd and clementine parfait, Nigel Slater, people, recipe, singing

Bluebell Lane, Broccoli and A Very Big Moon

05 May

1 Had a beautiful drive down a little Cornish lane lined with drifts of bluebells.

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2 Made a simple supper with beautiful purple sprouting broccoli a la Spring Simplicity but I left out the garlic because of tomorrow’s wedding and added some very crisply fried bacon – delicious! Thank you, Promenade Plantings for the inspiration.

Purple sprouting broccoli

3 The moon tonight is full and looks huge! I’m told that’s because it’s closer to the Earth than usual. It is certainly very beautiful.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 5, 2012 in Cornwall, environment, flowers, Food, nature, senses

Tags: bluebells, Cornish lane, dinner, Earth, food, garlic, moon, purple sprouting broccoli, simple supper, wedding

Evening Walk Along The Great Flat Lode

01 May

Enjoy the walk with me!

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 1, 2012 in Carn Brea, Cornwall, environment, flowers, nature

Tags: bluebells, graveyard, slideshow, Wheal Uny

Train Journey, Home from Senegal and a Simple Supper

15 Apr

1 The train journey through English countryside: The Somerset Levels, The White Horse, springy little lambs, a Thelwell pony, flowers-in-a-boat on the station platform at Saltash, and above all, the vibrant green of the fields.

English countryside from the train

2 Coming home, beautiful bluebells and primroses in the front garden and coming into our house.

Bluebells

3 A very simple and very tasty supper of two poached eggs on toast!

and I’ll start writing about the beautiful things of Senegal tomorrow.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 15, 2012 in Cornwall, environment, Food, home, nature, Senegal, travel

Tags: bluebells, English countryside, lambs, little lambs, Saltash, Senegal, simple supper, Spring, The Somerset Levels, The White Horse, Thelwell pony, train journey, travel, two poached eggs, vibrant green

First Bluebells, Coloured Pencils and A Baby Naming Ceremony

30 Mar

1 On the lane we take to walk into town, I saw the season’s first bluebells – such a rich colour, ‘like a piece of sky’ as the inspiration for my blog, http://threebeautifulthings.blogspot.co.uk/ once said. We also saw some beautifully veined leaves but I have yet to find out what they are.

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2 We went into town to find small presents to take to Senegal for Ndeye Marie, the 3 year old daughter of our son’s fiancee – so our soon-to-be Granddaughter! We found some bright and chunky coloured pencils and some paper for her and lots of biros for the other children. We know from our Voluntouring in South Africa that such pens are much treasured by the local children.

We have also bought Ndeye Marie some picture story books, one of which is about The Heligan Giant. See my previous post to see this delightful mud sculpture: http://mybeautfulthings.com/2012/03/28/sally-boots-the-heligan-giant-and-swish/

3 I’ve visited a delightful family in St Erth this evening to talk about their son’s Baby Naming Ceremony. It’s already sounding charming and we’ve hardly started.