Pea and mint soup
Baby gem lettuce
Bubbles in green glass
Christmas hat and boots for new-born
Beautiful jade inlay from India
Lime green bib on beautiful Grand-baby
Tag Archives: weekly photo challenge
Lovers’ Lane, Evening Sky and Green (Weekly photo challenge) and a P.S.
1 Just down the road from us is a path we can take to town, called Lovers’ Lane. That name pleases me.
Lovers’ Lane
2 A beautiful sky tonight.
Evening sky
3 There are so many beautiful shades of green and so many beautiful names for those colours – jade, turquoise, chartreuse, emerald, aquamarine, beryl, pea, olive, malachite, moss, and lime….
Lovers’ Lane
Evening sky
Baby Lupin leaves
Mural of green field and sheep
Under the Gunnera Leaves
Reflections in green water
Turquoise sea
Copper in the rocks
Green field with rabbit and fox
Green produce
Green Giant
A pea stall in Nepal
P.S. I don’t comment on news, politics or religion in this blog (and those who know me know that in real life I do that all the time!) but tonight I just want to say how my heart goes out to all those Egyptian families who have lost a child or maybe more than one in that terrible coach/train accident. I don’t have many readers of my blog in Egypt but I want to send love from one parent to another, to send love and strength for coping with this, to just tell you how my heart aches for you all.
Some Jays, A Greenfinch and A Stork’s Nest (Weekly photo challenge – Big)
1 For the last days we have been watching several beautiful jays fleetingly in our garden. They always seemed to have something big in their beaks. Looking them up in the bird book we learned that they love acorns. Today we realised that they are getting their acorns from over the road and while they are still elusive to catch on camera, I just managed to get a couple in the oak tree. You’ll have to look carefully to find them!
The elusive Jays
2 A little Greenfinch has been at the window feeder. I managed this photo from about 3 metres away from the kitchen and through the window.
Goldfinch at the window feeder
3 As this is mostly a bird post, I thought I’d include this one of a stork and its enormous nest taken in Spain last year, for this week’s Weekly Photo Challenge of Big.
Big nest on big columns!
Happy Cake, First Class Post and Curried Cauliflower Soup
1 A seasonal cook-up today! First a beautiful cake, Plum, Almond (should be hazelnuts) and Chocolate Cake, that came to me via the BBC Good Food site today. I couldn’t resist it! My version is full of the amino acid tryptophan which helps to make us happy! There are ground almonds, almond slivers and lots of good dark chocolate, all good sources of tryptophan hence its new name of Happy Cake.
Doesn’t that look delicious?
And it is!
2 While the cake was cooling and waiting for its glaze, we went to the Post Office to post off the two hoodies by the fastest post possible though I could hardly bear to part with them. If the hoodies themselves don’t keep the Grandbabies warm, then the love they’ve been made with will surely do the trick.
Hoodie parcels
3 While we were out we found big Cornish cauliflowers at a good price so I have made an enormous batch of Curried Cauliflower Soup, one of our favourites for cold winter days: 3 pints in the freezer and one for tomorrow. Two servings go very nicely into a one pint milk carton and they stack really neatly in the freezer.
Curried cauliflower soup
I’ll put both recipes up soon.
I can’t post large photos at the moment, they stretch and go out of proportion so these are all medium. Do click on each one for the large version.
Blue Makes Me Happy – Sea, Sky and Other Blue Things (Weekly photo challenge)
1 This morning the sea on the horizon as seen from our bedroom was a really deep blue.
2 Driving to Truro, this beautiful sky opened up as we turned a corner.
3 Such a bright and beautiful blue sky with the spires of Truro Cathedral lit up by the sun – just lovely.
I’m trying out the new gallery format here. What do you think? Somehow all the photos are below as well so you have a good comparison!
The sea from our bedroom window this morning
Trails in a blue sky today
The spires of Truro Cathedral with blue sky
Godrevy 17:9:2012
Little boy in blue pyjamas
Bluebells by the beach 24:4:2010
Blue outfit
Forget-me-nots for my Mum23:5:2012
Blue sky Moab 29:9:2011
The sea from our bedroom window this morning
Trails in a blue sky today
The spires of Truro Cathedral with blue sky
Godrevy 17:9:2012
Little boy in blue pyjamas
Bluebells by the beach 24:4:2010
Blue outfit
Forget-me-nots for my Mum23:5:2012
Blue sky Moab 29:9:2011
The Land’s End Cat, Macbeth at The Minack and A Patch of Blue Sky
1 We did the touristy thing today and showed P, my BIL from Poland, just a few of Cornwall’s treasures. We started at Land’s End.
Near and Far – Land’s End with America across the water!
The Signpost
The Land’s End Cat
Beautiful Lichen at Land’s End
On our way to Porthcurno and The Minack Theatre, an amazing amphitheatre cut into the cliffs, we went through a little village with this sign at each end.
Take care – deaf cat in this village
2 There was a production of Macbeth going on so we could only watch from the top. What a magnificent backdrop for any play!
Macbeth at The Minack
Just on the other side of the theatre is the beach of Porthcurno which must be one of the most beautiful and unspoiled anywhere.
Porthcurno
Turquoise sea
3 Our next stop was the best ice-creams ever at Mount’s Bay overlooking St Michael’s Mount. On a day that had been mostly grey weather-wise (but lots of fun) this patch of blue sky appeared – magic!
St Michael’s Mount with a patch of blue sky
