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
St Ives is beautiful what ever the weather or the time of day. It was raining last night but that special light that drew artists to the town was still evident.
St Ives in the rain 7pm
Same view at night
Baka Beyond were wonderful – we danced all night! It was a great delight to meet up again with Ayodele Scott, the percussionist who is a friend of our son.
Baka Beyond
I have planted bulbs today, Tete à Tete and Muscari in tubs and in our beautiful Three Wise Monkeys planter, made by the very talented Jeremy Beswick. We have to wait 6 months for them to be in flower…….
Living in hope!
It was with great sadness that I heard of the death of Barry Hines, the author of ‘A Kestrel for a Knave”. My copy is well thumbed and well loved and I have read it many, many times with classes of fifteen year olds who loved it as much as I did. The story spoke to my teenagers in Yorkshire and their eyes, like mine, would be full of tears when Billy finds that his beloved kestrel, Kes, has been murdered by his bullying big brother. If you have never read it, then I suggest you do. It is a remarkable piece of writing and made an excellent film, Kes, too.
A Kestrel For a Knave by Barry Hines
My treasures in the print case were lit up by rainbows from my Rainbow Maker today and I managed to catch a moment when the rainbow passed over my three wise monkeys. In the same shot you will see a heart stone. I was given this by a complete stranger when shopping in a mall in America. She came up to me saying, ‘My name is Sally and I feel a connection between us. I would like to give you this heart in remembrance of our fleeting friendship.” We chatted for a few moments and then she was gone……
Three Wise Monkeys caught in a flash of rainbow. I like how one doesn’t want to smell the colours and the next seems almost blinded by the brightness!
There is also a half-crown from the year that we were married and a little Mevagissey fisherman (one of a pair) that my Dad gave me when I was five or six and I have treasured ever since.
It has been a glorious day and the border outside our kitchen is looking lovely.
Fritillaria, Tete a Tete and Muscari
Beautiful veining
Tiers of Tete-a-tete in our back garden
I took this one last Spring when the Tete a Tete and the Grape hyacinths were in bloom and could be seen through the window and the pouring rain.
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1 The family spent the morning at The Maritime Museum and we met them for lunch at The Gylly Cafe where it was, sadly, much too cold to go onto the beach.
Lunch at The Gylly Cafe
2 Looking over the docks from Castle Drive was, as always, fascinating. We spotted the Dutch Brig, Mercedes with its tall masts in the distance. The photo of the ship in full sail is by David Barnicoat on 30th March.
Orange against the blue
Tall ship’s masts
Seagull
Mercedes by David Barnicoat
3 Despite the bitter winds the Tete a Tete miniature daffodils just keep on flowering!
Tete a Tete and Muscari still flowering 2.4.2013
1 Spotted in a tool box – aren’t these just beautiful things to work with?!
Tool box and sockets
Multi-coloured sockets
2 I walked down to the local allotments this afternoon to find my neighbour enjoying a cup of tea with other alottmenteers. All the following photos were taken around the plots.
Neat paths at the allotments
Beautiful ruby chard
Frog spawn
Calendula at the allotments
3 Back at home, my Three Wise Monkeys planter (made for me by local artist, Jeremy Beswick) always makes me smile, never more so when the miniature daffodils are coming into bloom.
Tete a Tete in my Three Wise Monkeys planter
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1 The curved herb wall is full of tiny bulbs which are bursting with Spring colour. The crocus which has died and fallen from its stem has the most vibrant and wonderful colours.
Purple and orange
Curved herb wall with Spring bulbs
Crocuses
Beautiful red stems on the Cornus Controversa
Tete a Tete daffodils
2 We took this little Spring bouquet to very old friends in Truro today, one of whom is very poorly. They looked after my Dad when he first moved to Cornwall in 1953, took me in for a holiday when I was 14. My family had moved North for a brief time and I was so desperately unhappy to have been taken away from Cornwall and they had me, a tricky teenager, to stay for two weeks! They have been such lovely loyal friends for such a long time.
Small garden bouquet for a friend, Pittosporum and Tete a Tete
3 Truro was lovely as always
Clock Tower on Truro City Hall
Planter on the way into Truro
Clock Tower on the former West Briton Offices, Truro
Flowers in a half-barrel on top of a pole
1 These little Tete a Tetes were broken off by the strong winds. I popped them into a little ink bottle, which we dug up from a Victorian bottle dump many years ago, and then realised that they were being reflected beautifully in the shiny granite work surface.
Tete a tete reflection
2 Crocuses are appearing in my Suffragette Garden and looking lovely.
A little patch of my purple, white and green garden, honouring the Suffragettes
3 Below is a truth that I think many of you will recognise. Thank you to ajaytao for this and to Alastair for re-blogging it so that I could make a new blogger-friend.
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