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Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures – A Year In Cornwall

These are the photographs that I have had made into a calendar for my family who all live away from Cornwall – in Munich, Germany; in Atlanta, Georgia; in Volcano, Hawaii; in Warsaw, Poland; in Exeter, Devon; in North Finchley, London; in Barcelona, Spain; in Dakar, Senegal and in Chilla, Devon.

Please click on any photo to reach the enlargement and to read the full caption. I have used the rectangular gallery setting but it won’t put the photos in chronological so I’ve given you them not in a gallery as well. Which do you prefer?

January 2012 – Walsingham Place, Truro, a beautiful curved Georgian terrace in Truro.

February 2012 – Godrevy Lighthouse from Hayle Towans

March 2012 – Daffodils in Trelissick Gardens

April 2012 – thrift on the cliffs at Chapelporth on the North Coast

May 2012 – Bluebells down the lane on the way to the Duchy Nurseries to buy a tree.

June 2012 - St Michael's Mount from Mount's Bay. The best ice creams in the worls can be found in the tea-shop here!

June 2012 – St Michael’s Mount from Mount’s Bay. The best ice creams in the world can be found in the tea-shop here!

July 2012 – From St Mawes looking over the water to the St Anthony Lighthouse. The annual regatta was in full sail.

August 2012- Looking out to Restronguet Creek from the pontoon of The Pandora Inn.

September 2012 – Kynance Cove, a favourite place for the family for many years.

October – Coming back into Cornwall over the Brunel Bridge over the Tamar, after our holiday in India and Nepal

November 2012 – Looking towards St Ives from Hayle Towans

December 2012 Pill Creek , where we first lived when we moved to Cornwall from Birmingham when I was 6 years old. Is it any wonder I fell in love with the County?

February 2012 – Godrevy Lighthouse from Hayle Towans

March 2012 – Daffodils in Trelissick Gardens

April 2012 – thrift on the cliffs at Chapelporth on the North Coast

May 2012 – Bluebells down the lane on the way to the Duchy Nurseries to buy a tree.

July 2012 – From St Mawes looking over the water to the St Anthony Lighthouse. The annual regatta was in full sail.

August 2012- Looking out to Restronguet Creek from the pontoon of The Pandora Inn.

June 2012 – St Michael’s Mount from Mount’s Bay. The best ice creams in the worls can be found in the tea-shop here!

September 2012 – Kynance Cove, a favourite place for the family for many years.

December 2012 Pill Creek , where we first lived when we moved to Cornwall from Birmingham when I was just six years old. Is it any wonder I fell in love with the County?

October – Coming back into Cornwall over the Brunel Bridge over the Tamar, after our holiday in India and Nepal

January 2012 – Walsingham Place, Truro, a beautiful curved Georgian terrace in Truro.

November 2012 – Looking towards St Ives from Hayle Towans

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on December 29, 2012 in Chapel Porth, Cornwall, DP Challenge, photography, Pill Creek, postaday2012, Trelissick Gardens, Truro, Weekly photo challenge

Tags: A Year In Cornwall, Atlanta, Barcelona, Chilla, Dakar, Devon, DPchallenge, Exeter, Georgia, Germany, Hawaii, London, Munich, My 2012 in Pictures, north finchley, Poland, Postaday, postaday2012, Senegal, Spain, Volcano, Warsaw, weekly photo challenge

Balloon Fairy, Petrichor and Romantic Polish Cranes

30 May

1 Sorting out the room for our Grandchildren to sleep in when they arrive late tonight for two weeks, I saw another fairy Sculpture and remembered that I had promised to show you another of my treasures made by the very talented artist Samantha Bryan. The other one can be seen at http://mybeautfulthings.com/2012/03/09/fur-elise-fairies-and-fishnchips/

Air balloon Fairy

Brain’s Airborne Support System

2 We had a very heavy shower onto hot ground this afternoon and, for the first time this Summer, I smelt petrichor! Wikipedia defines it as ‘the scent of rain on dry earth’. My lovely Sister-in-law in Atlanta, Georgia and I discovered the word at the same time so the smell always reminds me of her.

Number 3 was going to be a gorgeous and very big spider that I found in the garden and took a beautifully hairy photo of but just now this delightful email came in from my Brother-in-law in Warsaw, Poland:

“The photo below is about two cranes who met in an injured animals’ clinic in the south of Poland. The female had a broken wing, the male some serious food poisoning. During the course of several months’ treatment they paired up together. The male gradually recovered his strength, but the female’s condition was irreversible, so she didn’t regain the ability to fly. In view of this, the male refrained from cruising off to warmer climes in the winter and remained in Poland; he also decided to start building his partner a nest, on the ground. Which, of course, is pretty unheard-of for cranes…”

Two Cranes

Isn’t that just a beautiful story?

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 30, 2012 in art, birds, craft, family, nature, sculpture, senses, sewing

Tags: artist, Atlanta, Balloon Fairy, bezNazwy, broken wing, brother-in-law, cranes, fairy sculpture, food poisoning, Georgia, grandchildren, Petrichor, Poland, Romantic Cranes, Samantha Bryan, sister-in-law, spider, treasures, Wikipedia

Sister-in-Law, Gardening Memories and a Cornish Snail

18 May

1 A lovely long email from my sister-in-law in Atlanta giving me all their news.

2 I love it how gardening makes me remember people. Today it’s the very small crinodendron hookerianum, with so many amazing lanterns this year, only three last year (Mum and Dad and their good friend Eddie), planting Cosmos (Bill’s Dad who gave me plugs the year he died and they kept flowering until the first frosts), night scented stocks, just tiny seedlings at the moment, ( KJ as a very little girl of 3 or 4 who used to wake up at about 10pm night after night. We used to take her out into the garden on summer nights to smell ‘the night flowers’ and then she would happily go back to bed.) And now, seeing the uncurling fern, my lovely sister Daisy who emailed to say that she too loves to see the uncurling ferns but in Hawaii they are 30′ tall!