RSS

Tag Archives: St Euny Churchyard

Guest Artist, Celtic Cross and Mud Maid

I spent much of the morning walking and talking in St Euny Graveyard with their Guest Artist, C, who is making rubbings of many of the gravestones. It was lovely to meet with someone new, socially distanced and in the outdoors, of course, and to discover that we have so much in common.

Walking back through the ‘new’ graveyard, I took a couple of photos. I love how this grave marker is built up on carefully chosen stones and granite chunks like those used in a Cornish hedge.

More work at the allotment this afternoon with the lovely Mr S constructing the beds in the cage and me shovelling compost. On the back of Sue’s truck, which still holds lots of the collected compost, is this sticker of her Mud Maid, a special feature in The Lost Gardens of Heligan.

Mud Maid, by Sue Hill to be found in The Lost Gardens of Heligan

6 Comments

Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 4, 2021 in art, community, Photography, Postaday2021, Uncategorized

Tags: St Euny Churchyard, The Lost Gardens of Heligan

Sunlight, Clematis and Characters in the Graveyard

14 May

I love how the sunlight is shining through the leaf.

The petals may have fallen but this Clematis is still very beautiful.

Today’s dress rehearsals were wonderful. Here are a few of the characters you will meet if you come to the show next week.

Sophie Everett

Mary Angove Gill

Granny Catherine

Benny

The Soldiers

Two Dust Girls

Two guides discussing their roles

2 Comments

Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 14, 2017 in Beauty, community, Cornwall, environment, Happiness, nature, Photography, postaday2017

Tags: St Euny Churchyard, Until the Day Break

Rehearsals in St Euny Churchyard

07 May

It is less than two weeks to the start of our production of ‘Until the Day Break’! Today was a choir rehearsal with The Ingleheart Singers and The Red River Singers for the whole route, planning who should sing where – very exciting! There were small character rehearsals going on too so here is a gallery to give you a flavour of our beautiful afternoon. Click on any photo for more detail.

Trying out a small group on ‘Black and Gold’

One of our actors who will play Dmitri Nabokov

The May Carol being sung between the old and the new Churchyards

Carn Brea and Bluebells

On the route that the audience will take

Being directed in their scene

St Euny, Yellow and A Poem

13 Mar

This morning we walked the Churchyard again, this time with the photographer for Cornwall Today, a local magazine where our project is to be featured in the May edition. Every journey into the Churchyard is a revelation – more stones discovered and different Spring flowers in bloom. Today it is Celandines, Primroses and Daffodils.

DSCN9546 DSCN9541 DSCN9540 DSCN9533 DSCN9539

This beautiful poem by Linda Gregg is most appropriate for today.

In Praise of Spring – Linda Gregg

The day is taken by each thing and grows complete.

I go out and come in and go out again,

confused by a beauty that knows nothing of delay,

rushing like fire. All things move faster

than time and make a stillness thereby. My mind

leans back and smiles, having nothing to say.

Even at night I go out with a light and look

at the growing. I kneel and look at one thing

at a time. A white spider on a peony bud.

I have nothing to give, and make a poor servant,

but I can praise the spring. Praise this wildness

that does not heed the hour. The doe that does not

stop at dark but continues to grow all night long.

The beauty in every degree of flourishing. Violets

lift to the rain and the brook gets louder than ever.

The old German farmer is asleep and the flowers go on

opening. There are stars. Mint grows high. Leaves

bend in the sunlight as the rain continues to fall.

2 Comments

Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 13, 2017 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, flowers, nature, Perthi Kov, Photography, postaday2017

Tags: Cornwall Today, irritation with wordpress, St Euny Churchyard

Daffodils, Symbiosis and Celandine

08 Feb

I went on another search around St Euny graveyard today. Daffodils are beginning to bloom.

I love the oak tree at the start of the lane. Just look at the ferns and the moss growing on the leafless branches and today we have a beautiful blue sky with scudding fluffy clouds.

Celandines are so pretty with the bronze outside and the golden yellow inside.

3 Comments

Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 8, 2017 in Beauty, Cornwall, environment, nature, Photography, postaday2017

Tags: St Euny Churchyard

New Yarn, Research and Brian Patten

07 Feb

I have some beautiful new yarn for my ongoing project which I can’t tell you much more about until March and LiveWire T’s birthday!

I have spent the last three days reading and researching for our project and at the end of it have decided that this one, about a family connected with El Cobre Mine in Cuba, is not a story to tell in the graveyard but one for the booklet. To enlighten you re The Project, called “Until the Day Break”: in May we are to bring to life some of the ‘residents’ of our local Churchyard, St Euny and we will tell their stories beside their gravestones. The stories are to be a celebration of the lives lived and have led to some remarkable discoveries. Today, I have come to the conclusion that fascinating as it is, the story of El Cobre Mine in Cuba is not an uplifting one so not one for the performance. It is however, well worth the telling. Watch this space! When the booklet is published I will share it with you all.

It was these two gravestones that set me off on the story –

The Mersey poet, Brian Patten, whose work I love and whom I met many years ago, was born on this day in 1946. To mark his birthday, I give you “The Bee’s Last Journey to the Rose” which , though written many years ago, says much to me about hope for the future. I hope it does the same for you.

The Bee’s Last Journey to the Rose

I came first through the warm grass
Humming with Spring,
And now swim through the evening’s
Soft sunlight gone cold.
I am old in this green ocean
Going a final time to the rose.

North wind, until I reach it
Keep your icy breath away
That changes pollen into dust.
Let me be drunk on this scent a final time,
Then blow if you must.

by Brian Patten

12 Comments

Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 7, 2017 in Beauty, knitting, poetry, postaday2017

Tags: "The Bee's Last Journey to the Rose", El Cobre Mine Cuba, Liverpool poet, St Euny Churchyard, Until the Day Break

Happiness, Hydrangea and Rudyard Kipling

22 Apr

Catching up with a fellow blogger, Unexpectedincommonhours, I found this delightful video which sums up my philosophy too. As she says, it may be a children’s song, but it is a good way to live. Debs also had this quotation – perfect. Thank you.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. (Martha Washington)

Spring Flowers and a Dog in the Churchyard

07 Mar

Walking around St Euny Churchyard again this afternoon, there were more and more signs of Spring.

Camellia

A furry dog

Narcissi

Primroses

Catkins

Daffodils

Weather, St Euny Churchyard and The Diaspora

08 Feb

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. -John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (8 Feb 1819-1900)

It certainly was a bracing afternoon as we walked around St Euny Churchyard this afternoon. Come for a walk with us and imagine the wind of Storm Imogen howling through the trees and between the stones. It is fascinating to see how the Cornish miners of tin and copper, who went all over the world to share their skills, to Mexico and America and Cuba, came home to Cornwall. Click on any photo to read the stone more easily.

Carn Brea

Emily and Edith died in the same year

To Jane Prisk

Lovely detail

Died in Carbondale, Pen, USA

Snowdrops

Late of Mexico

Sad stone

Wider view

4 Comments

Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 8, 2016 in America, Beauty, Cornwall, environment, History, nature, Photography, Postaday 2016

Tags: Carn Brea, St Euny Churchyard, tin and copper miners

Wren, St Euny Churchyard and Singing

01 Dec

1 This little Wren is often around on our trellis but rarely stays long enough for me to get a photo.

Wren on the fence

2 I spent a very interesting afternoon walking around St Euny Churchyard with a local historian who was so full of stories that kept us all amused and fascinated. This has the makings of a promising project. Have a look here for more about the Churchyard and to see the most informative Mining and Medicine board where you can learn more about trepanning. Click on any photo for more detail and for the caption.

The Tudor tower of St Euny Church. There has been a Church on this site since 550!

A beautiful broken flower

In the graveyard

This and the next photo are gravestones to a brother and sister, both born in Cuba where the family had emigrated to so that their father could share his mining skills and who both died locally, Julianna at only 6yrs old and Josiah, just 18.