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Pictures From the Train

We have travelled home today from a lovely few days with family in London and as always the journey home was magical. As we pull in to Truro station, I can almost see my 6’3″ Dad there waving at me , meeting me from college up-country and taking me, not straight home but straight to Perranproth , sea-starved as I was. Here is a gallery of scenes from the train. to give you a flavour of how wonderful this journey is. Click on any photo for more detail.

Tractor harvesting the hay

Lovely stained glass window and finial

Wreck

Boats in the estuary

Across the water

view from the train

water from the train

water

Fields and hedges and cows

Fields

Truro Cathedral

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 30, 2015 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, Happiness, photography, Postaday 2015, travel, Truro

Tags: Great Western Railway, journey from London to Cornwall, views from the train

Cornish Mists, Precious Books and Pressed Flowers

04 Sep

1 We are promised four days of Summer starting tomorrow but today is a typical Autumn day, full “of mists and mellow fruitfulness” (From John Keats’ poem, To Autumn, 1820:)

Mist droplets on a web

Horses in the mist and a rabbit running away

2 I spent this damp day doing more sorting. If you’ve been following long, you’ll know that constant but gradual ‘de-cluttering’ of things I inherited is happening at our house! Today it was a bookshelf where I found some beautiful books which have gone straight back onto the shelves! Just look at these…..

The Fern World, published 1877.

Just look at that beautiful lettering!

Fronds unfurling – plate

Fronds unfurling -index to plate

Plate Four

Plate Four info

Published by the Great Western Railway in 1923

I travelled on some of those branch lines, pre Beeching.

I’m saving another treasure for another day. It is so lovely to handle these books knowing they were also loved by my Mum and Dad.

3 Pressed in a Diary and long forgotten, I discovered some beautiful pressed flowers. I picked all these in our garden the day we moved back to Cornwall mid January 2008. I am thrilled by the retention of colour in the primrose, the crocus, the snowdrop, the tiny blue flower and the greenery.

Beautiful flowers pressed January 2008

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on September 4, 2012 in books, environment, flowers, garden, nature, painting, poetry, quotations, senses

Tags: Autumn, cornish, de-cluttering, DP challenge, ferns, Great Western Railway, John Keats, john keats poem, mists and mellow fruitfulness, nature, Postaday, postaday2012

Little Legs, Lego and Journey Home

13 Aug

1 Tabitha stood still just long enough for me to get this picture!

Pretty socks and shoes

2 The Lego gift from Saturday is a big hit.

Playing with the new Lego

3 Isambard Kingdom Brunel has long been a hero of mine! This beautiful sculpture of the very elegant man sits on Paddington Station. Without his amazing work we wouldn’t have The Great Western Railway from London all the way to Penzance and our train ride to our family!