1 In a village just up the road from our town, there is a lovely Christmas tree full of enormous baubles.
Lanner’s Christmas tree
2 The tide was in as we started to sing this morning and the water was very still so there were beautiful reflections. Within two hours there was such a hailstorm we couldn’t see across the river at all.
Reflections on the Penryn River
3 Another of our angels was bought in Warsaw and is really quirky! I think she’s gorgeous!
Ceramic Warsaw angel
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 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?
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Redruth Cricket Club
1 My Brother-in-law, who lives in Warsaw, is staying with us for a couple of weeks and had a wish to see an English Cricket match. We were lucky that the last match of the season was being played at home on the Cricket ground only minutes away from us. It was very relaxing watching the slow progress and pleasing to catch some of the action.
Bowler and batsman
Getting a single run
2 On the way home is a whole hedge of the beautiful Crinodendron Hookerianum. Our little bush is doing well but is still only a year old. Crinodendron Hookerianum is a fascinating shrub that has on it buds, flowers and seed pods at all stages all at once.
Crinodendron Hookerarium – our little shrub in the Spring
Crinodendron with flower, just-opening seed pod and ready-to-drop-its-seeds seed pod
Finished flower, incipient seed pod
Fresh seed pod
Seed pod bursting
3 Created a new Spine Poem:
Spine poem
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