I was photographing the delicate Narcissi when I noticed the spider within.
Spider on Narcissi and web lines
The lane we walk down to get to town is covered in dropped Camellia flowers. These two caught my eye, one recently fallen and one in a further state of decay.
Camellia flowers
The wall garden is looking pretty with blue Hyacinths and yellow Tete a Tete.
Blue with yellow
For many, many years I made a raised Christmas Pie for Boxing Day but after the children left home it was too much for the pair of us. This year everyone will be here for my special birthday on New Year’s Eve so I have made the fabulous contraption for the first night they will all be here, 30th December. They are all in charge of the cooking for the rest of their stay! Good job we brought them all up well to be excellent cooks!
Christmas Pie
The Hyacinths that I planted for Christmas are just in flower.
White hyacinth
Our son, D, who now lives in Barcelona, has arrived this evening for the week of celebrations! Yippee!
1 The first of the hyacinths that I planted some weeks ago is just coming into flower and smells lovely. If you click the red link you’ll see what they looked like on November 22nd.
Hyacinth coming into bloom
2 I took the Christmas cards down today and was again struck by the quotation from Simon Dach on this one from my dear sister-in-law. It’s what we do for each other even though we are many miles apart – Atlanta, Georgia and Cornwall, UK. If you’d like to know more of the poem and the poet, click here
We will stand by each other
3 This beautiful painting came into my Fb page today and I was amazed to read that it was done by a 7 year old. She and her Mum have given permission for me to feature it here today – thank you very much to you both. I especially love the way Anishka has used colour in the trees which is echoed in the hills and the way the perspective works. This would make a very beautiful embroidery and is quite inspiring!
Anishka’s painting. She’s a very talented seven year old.
These are the lovely messages from Anishka and her Mum -“Anishka has a few words to share with you………….
I really want to be artist when I am older because i love art.I drew a house there because houses are usually built near grass.I chose the colours because they remind me about summer. I did trees because I felt it looked 3D.
………. all her own words and typing and I loved listening to her spell because (Birds Eat Custard And Usually Scrambled Egg) How cool is that! Hope this helps, let me know if you need anymore info! x” Anishka’s Mum is an artist herself and you can find her work here.
I’ve ticked the ‘super-awesome’ button on today’s post. I don’t know what it does but feel that Anishka’s work deserves to be seen. By the way, I don’t know this family – only serendipitously ‘met’ them through Fb today.
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