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Nostalgia, Weather Vane and Garden

1 Today, M and I have been to all the houses we lived in in Truro – four. That’s five of our homes photographed so far – four more to do around Perranporth tomorrow. Look for the post later when all our homes will be featured! What a happy time we are having sharing memories – and how different some of those memories are!

2 Behind one of them I spotted a delightful weather vane of a cat and a mouse.

Cat and mouse

3 Our garden was looking particularly pleasing from the new terrace, an angle we have not been able to appreciate before.

Under the Larch to our Fledgling sculpture, Copper Rook to the left of Fledgling

Clematis growing up the Larch and Crocosmia Lucifer behind

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on July 8, 2014 in Beauty, family, Happiness, nature, photography, Postaday 2014

Tags: weather vane

Beads, Weather Vane and Xylophone Playing

08 Nov

1 I discovered a shop full of brightly coloured beads today….

Beautiful beads

2 Just about to leave Truro, the last rays of the sun illuminated the weather vane on top of the Cathedral. As I turned round, there was a peachy sunset cloud with a crescent moon above.

Truro Cathedral

The waxing crescent of the moon

3 Grandbaby B took to the xylophone very quickly and with obvious delight!

Grandbaby B playing the xylophone

NaBloPoMo

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 8, 2013 in Beauty, Grandchildren, music, nature, photography, Postaday2013

Tags: NaBloPoMo, phases of the moon, waxing crescent of the moon, weather vane, xylophone

Day Out in Penzance – Mermaid, Stone Sculptures, Egret and Architecture

04 Nov

1 I delight in finding lovely weather vanes and this mermaid looking in a mirror is one of the best.

Clock tower with mermaid

2 Behind the Jubilee Pool in Penzance we spotted these stone sculptures and an egret fishing in the rock pools.

Stone sculptures

Stone cairn

Egret

3 Penzance is full of charming buildings. Click on any photo for detail.

The Chocolate House 1700

Antique shop

The Egyptian House

Bronte Family history

Read the plaque

The Admiral Benbow -look at the roof!

Lovely doorway

As an extra treat, have a look at this touching video sent to me this morning.https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=1888422568315

NaBloPoMo

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on November 4, 2013 in architecture, Beauty, birds, Cornwall, nature, Penzance, photography, Postaday2013, sculpture

Tags: egret, mermaid, NaBloPoMo, stone cairns, weather vane

Three Choirs In Trelissick Gardens, Golden Squirrel and Wisteria

25 May

1 After another lovely day with L and Grandbaby B, I came home just in time to be part of the Three Choirs event at Trelissick Gardens: all three of Claire’s choirs singing together on the great lawn, about 100 of us and it was brilliant! The cafe art being done by the artist Carol, whose work I wrote about here, is now finished with a beautiful Tower added to the lovely Wisteria stencils.

Trelissick Water Tower by Carol

2 On top of the Water Tower is a delightful weather vane with a golden squirrel instead of the traditional cockerel.

The Golden Squirrel on the tower

3 The Wisteria outside the cafe is in full bloom and echoed by the stencils inside (See this post for the photos) Further into the garden and after the concert, I took the last photo by the light of tonight’s full moon!

Wisteria outside the cafe

Wisteria blossom

Wisteria by moonlight

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on May 25, 2013 in community, Cornwall, flowers, gigs, music, nature, photography, Postaday2013, singing, Trelissick Gardens

Tags: full moon, Trelissick Water Tower, weather vane

Poem-a-day, Cornish Blue Sky and Garden Sculptures

01 Apr

1 My lovely sister-in-law, Victoia, in Atlanta, emailed me to remind me about the Poem-a-day throughout April and the next email was the first poem! If you, too, are a lover of poetry, as I know several of my lovely followers are, you might like to subscribe free at http://poem-a-day.knopfdoubleday.com/ You never know what’s going to come into your inbox!

2 The sky today has been the vividest blue and the lovely Mr S fixed up our new weather vane.

3 We also planted something rather special though not conventionally beautiful, more a kitchen sculpture, my Mum’s old panstand! Each year we grow our runner beans up it and I know my Mum and Dad would have been tickled pink to know how we are putting it to use, there being no space in our kitchen for its proper use.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 1, 2012 in art, Cornwall, family, poetry, sculpture

Tags: Atlanta, kitchen sculpture, Mum, mum and dad, nature, plants, Poem-a-day, runner beans, Victoria, weather vane

More Brass Trade, ‘Fab after Fifty’ and Everest Base Camp Reached

21 Feb

1 Met a lovely man this morning whose daughter saw my ad for the brass sheets on Network Cornwall. He’s taken lots of the brass and is going to make me a weather vane. Even better, he mends instruments for Camborne Brass band so the material will be used in the way it used to be. That will please Charlie.

2 Sallie Grayson of People and Places, through whom we did our Voluntouring in Mapoch, South Africa, sent me this article about the over 50s volunteering and they used my photo!

http://www.fabafterfifty.co.uk/2012/02/21/how-do-you-go-about-volunteering-overseas-things-you-need-to-know/