We have been planting bulbs this week and today I noticed the discarded outer layer of one on the grass. Trapped underneath were some droplets of water making for a beautiful shot.
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Curve
Finding the beautiful in our lives and sharing the love has become even more important today as my country, to my utter dismay, has voted to leave the EU. Here is a curve that I hope will make you smile.
This second photo is of a three year old hand feeling the texture of the Poppy bud.
With love to you all on this sad day.
Weekly Photo Challenge – Careful
The girls dancing here had to be very careful indeed! The ledge is less than 3″ wide.
Dancers at Princess Pavilion in Falmouth being very careful indeed
To see more in this Challenge, click this link.
Weekly Photo Challenge – Grand
It’s been such a week I have almost missed this challenge. Here are my Grand Canyon photos. What is more grand than that? These are all from the North Rim trails. Click on any photo for a better view.
You’ll find lots more in the challenge here
Weekly Photo Challenge – Colours of Carrot Cake
As I was collecting everything for making Carrot cakes this morning, I realised how beautifully colourful the whole process was from the nearly white flour with the spices in, to the taupe of the soft brown sugar, the golden yellow of the eggs with a swirl of burnt umber of vanilla to the deep orange of the mixture with flecks of brighter orange carrot to the shiny golden brown of the baked buns! All very beautiful!
Flour with cinnamon and ginger
Soft brown sugar
Beaten eggs with oil and vanilla
Grated carrot
Mixture in the cases
Baked Carrot Cup-cakes
Piano Tricks, Just So Science and Beyond the Agapanthus (Weekly Photo Challenge)
1 I loved my piano lesson today! Between us, my teacher and I have come up with a trick that is really helping me to learn. G started me on some simple duets and they were fun in the lessons but hard to practise as my part sounded odd on its own so I started to record her part and to play along to it. Hey presto! My timing improved and things sounded good! So, now I record G playing each new piece three times, firstly at the right speed so I know what I’m aiming for, then each hand at a learning speed so I can pick it up, getting the timing and the notes right. Then I can play each hand, with the recording playing the other hand, then I can move to both hands together and then play along with the right speed and, finally, I hope, play the whole thing independently! They are all simple tunes but I am having such fun learning!
2 BBC Radio 4 has all week had a fabulous series running called Just So Science. It is excerpts from Rudyard Kipling’s delightful ‘Just So Stories’ interspersed with scientific information about the animal in question. Today it was ‘The Cat Who Walked By Himself’, one of my many favourites. Just read this and feel the beautiful language, the alliteration, the rhythm, the repetition and the humour. I just love it. My Dad used to read all these stories to me so I hear his voice when I read the words. Now that is truly beautiful.
“One evening Bat said, ‘There is a Baby in the Cave. He is new and pink and fat and small, and the Woman is very fond of him.’
‘Ah,’ said the Cat, listening, ‘but what is the Baby fond of?’
‘He is fond of things that are soft and tickle,’ said the Bat. ‘He is fond of warm things to hold in his arms when he goes to sleep. He is fond of being played with. He is fond of all those things.’
‘Ah,’ said the Cat, listening, ‘then my time has come.’
Next night Cat walked through the Wet Wild Woods and hid very near the Cave till morning-time, and Man and Dog and Horse went hunting. The Woman was busy cooking that morning, and the Baby cried and interrupted. So she carried him outside the Cave and gave him a handful of pebbles to play with. But still the Baby cried.
Then the Cat put out his paddy paw and patted the Baby on the cheek, and it cooed; and the Cat rubbed against its fat knees and tickled it under its fat chin with his tail. And the Baby laughed; and the Woman heard him and smiled.”
The Cat Who Walked By Himself
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3 Don wrote about Agapanthus recently and reminded me of this beautiful picture taken in St Mawes last July when we had our brilliant family reunion. Look beyond the Agapanthus to see the St Mawes Regatta on the water and beyond that to St Anthony Head which is on our favourite coastal walk.
Look beyond the Agapanthus from St Mawesand beyond again across the water to St Anthony’s Head
Weekly Photo Challenge: My 2012 in Pictures – A Year In Cornwall
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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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.
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.
June 2012 – St Michael’s Mount from Mount’s Bay. The best ice creams in the worls can be found in the tea-shop here!
September 2012 – Kynance Cove, a favourite place for the family for many years.
December 2012 Pill Creek , where we first lived when we moved to Cornwall from Birmingham when I was just six years old. Is it any wonder I fell in love with the County?
October – Coming back into Cornwall over the Brunel Bridge over the Tamar, after our holiday in India and Nepal
January 2012 – Walsingham Place, Truro, a beautiful curved Georgian terrace in Truro.
November 2012 – Looking towards St Ives from Hayle Towans
Weekly Photo Challenge Surprise – Primrose, Jester and Family Arriving Any Minute
1 What a delightful surprise! The primroses have started flowering in this cold and damp December. What little beauties they are!
Primroses, one of my favourites
2 This little Jester is part of J’s Christmas present of a castle with figures.
Delightful little Jester
3 The first tranche of the family will be arriving any minute having driven for 5-6 hours and hopefully avoiding all the floods throughout Cornwall.
Weekly Photo Challenge – Delicate Cyclamen, Vanilla Flowers and Grand-Baby Talking
1 I love the way the beautiful white cyclamen fold their delicate petals back and survive despite the cold winds. They are part of my purple, white and green garden honouring the Suffragettes.
White Cyclamen
2 The pretty little Vanilla Flowers are doing well too; they’ve been in flower for months.
Tiny Vanilla Flowers
3 We spoke to J and T today on the phone. J, just four, is sounding so grown-up and T, 20 months, said, “Hello Granny” and “Hello Grand-grand” for the first time!
Weekly Photo Challenge: Changing Seasons – Three Beautiful Things
1 The Optician in Redruth has marked the changing season with a delightful display of Angels.
Angels at the Opticians
2 I love this bright mural in Redruth, Spring being recalled this very cold Winter afternoon.
Spring seen in Winter
3 Our good friends brought us some homemade jam the other night which I have had on hot buttered toast this afternoon after that very cold walk into town. Delicious! I like the idea of eating produce from the Autumn as the season changes into Winter.
Marilyn’s delicious jam
