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Phoneography Challenge – My Neighbourhood 2

I’ve shown you some of the countryside in my neighbourhood here (the countryside) and here (the sea).

Now I’d like to show you some of the pleasing features of our small town. I love the street signs and the hounds make me smile every day! There are many more beautiful Tregellas tapestries.If you would like to see more; I posted about some of the others here. These are the ones in the market area.

The Old Court House

The Plaque

Butcher’s Opeway

Cross Street

Delightful design around the base of each tree

Fairmeadow Opeway

Tinners’ Hounds by David Kemp

Lemins Court

The Tin Miner

Lidgey’s Passage

One of the Tregellas Tapestries, showing Cornwall’s export of daffodils, cauliflowers and potatoes

Symons Terrace and self-portrait

These two got away

Tregellas tapestry showing emigration. Thousands left Cornwall taking their mining skills all over the world

The viaduct that takes the line to Penzance and to London

Bench

Sign over the gateway leading out of the market

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on March 14, 2013 in architecture, art, Cornwall, craft, embroidery, embroidery, environment, History, local history, photography, Postaday2013, Redruth, sculpture, Weekly photo challenge

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Home – for the creatures in our garden

11 Feb

Bird house in the camellia bush

Home for insects

Bird house in the honeysuckle

Little mice live in this wall. We see them only occasionally

I wonder what is making its home in one of our crocuses?

All sorts of creatures make their homes in our garden.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on February 11, 2013 in environment, flowers, garden, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Uncategorized, Weekly photo challenge

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Weekly Photo Challenge – Resolved, Snowflake and Skeletal Leaf

04 Jan

1 This year I have resolved to keep my wool collection in a more organised fashion and for my birthday, the lovely Mr S bought me this compartmented display box in beautiful mango wood. Today, I have sorted all my bits and balls of wool and am very pleased with the result. Each one as I put it away is full of memories of what I knitted and for whom – it’s lovely! Have a look at this post to see some of my projects http://mybeautfulthings.com/2013/01/04/weekly-photo-challenge-my-2012-in-pictures-a-year-of-knitting/

Mango wood box

Wool all sorted and with lots of memories

2 I’ve started knitting The Snowman’s Snowdog (it’s a bit tricky) but I love the way the ball of wool turned into a snowball as soon as I took off the wrapper!

Snowflake wool becomes a snowball!

3 The Schizophragma hydrangeoides, in the front garden, has the most beautiful skeletal flowers just barely hanging on its branches.

Skeleton Petiolaris leaf

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on January 4, 2013 in craft, garden, knitting, nature, photography, Postaday2013, Uncategorized, Weekly photo challenge

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Birthday, Pink Pompoms, Accordion and Reflections (Weekly Photo Challenge)

06 Dec

1 We had the most delightful phone call with J who is 4 today. He sounded so grown-up and listened all the way through Happy Birthday and then told us all about his cake and his Birthday Breakfast of croissants, a family tradition we’ve done for many, many years and which we are delighted is being carried on.

2 This delightful little plant was brought by our friends last night. I have yet to discover what it is but love its little pink pompom flowers.

Pompom flowers

3 Our choir baby loves it when Claire plays the accordion. We are learning Leonard Cohen’s ‘Dance Me To The End of Love’ and it’s fabulous! The harmonies are just lovely and the accordion accompaniment, perfect.