Night Sky, Cosmos, New Wool and Baby Toes

1   I loved the colours of the grass and the sky in this photo taken about 10pm on our way home last night.

Driving home last night

2   The Cosmos in the garden are starting to flower. Let’s hope they continue until the first frosts as they are wont to do. I’m hoping the next frosts won’t be soon – the weather is very cold and the forecasters are promising it to be colder still……

Cosmos

3   I love the colours in the new cotton I have just bought to make more beautiful baby clothes.

New cotton to knit baby clothes

4   We love Grand-Baby B’s toes too! An extra beautiful thing for LouAnn who so liked B’s ear yesterday.

Baby toes

 

White Clematis, White Iris and Baby Beauty

Today seems a day in particular need of beautiful things given the news from Oklahoma and the fact that two of my blogging friends have recently been bereaved.  Hudson and Patty, this post is for you.

1   This Clematis is called Spring Sensation and although it is only in its second year, has given us quite a few beautiful flowers.

White Clematis

2    Among the purple irises brought by our good friends the other evening were white buds waiting to open and today they have done and they are utterly beautiful.  The vase is now full of purple, white and green which just goes to show how well our friends know me and how well their gift was chosen.

White iris

3   Yesterday, when we visited our beautiful family, I took this photograph of a tiny baby ear – just perfect.

Perfection in a baby’s ear

 

Weekly Photo Challenge – Escape – into our Flower-filled Cornish Lanes

Our Cornish hedges are filled with colour at the moment, pinks, whites and blues abound with golds and soft yellows and the lime greens of new leaf growth.  As we drive by, these all become beautiful blurs of mixed hues so I walked around the block, as it were, to capture the colours for you. I wish I could also bring you the quietness, the birdsong, the smells and the peace that came with taking all these photos for you.  Click on any photo for more detail.

Bluebells with a Gren Veined White butterfly

Primroses

Pennywort with flowers

Pink Valerian

Pink Valerian close-up

Hedge bottom

Glorious golden Gorse or Furze

Dandelion

Cow Parsley

Celandine

Three Cornered Leeks – their stems are triangular and they are edible.

Blue and gold

Dog Violets, also edible

English Pink and Bluebells

Pink Campion

Celandines

Foxgloves in bud

Fiddlehead ferns

White dead nettle, edible

Bright green new growth of Crocosmia

Bluebells and Three Cornered Leeks

Delicate dandelion seedhead

Pink Clover

Is this a Lesser Stitchwort?

 

Grand-baby, Feather and Bird Watching

1   We spent a delightful day with our beautiful Granddaughter and her lovely parents today.

Grandbaby B

2    Walking around their garden I always find a treasure trove of beautiful things.

Feather and ivy

New growth

3   The bird table is always a hive of activity.

Siskins and a woodpecker

At the bird table

The pheasant on the bird table

 

Asparagus Festival, Irises and Blogging

1   It was the Annual Asparagus Festival today in a local hotel so I went along to see the cookery demonstrations and to buy some delicious Cornish asparagus and other delicious Cornish produce.  I bought some fabulous Duck eggs so that’s tomorrow’s supper sorted – steamed asparagus spears with poached duck egg.

Duck eggs

2   We had some very good friends round for supper tonight and we started with Roasted Asparagus with Balsamic Dressing and Parmesan Shavings – delicious. They brought us some very beautiful Irises.

Roasted Asparagus

Purple irises

3   Valerie wrote about the pleasures of blogging today – a very interesting piece as her posts always are.  I so endorse everything she says about blogging. What a world it has opened up where we can learn so much about the lives of others, their loves, their disasters, their troubles and their joys – and all with such honesty being able, as she says, to open up in this so supportive environment. I do believe real friendships develop on here.

 

Wedding in the Grove, Bridesmaids and A Harp

The sun shone all day and the Wedding in the Grove was utterly delightful. Humanist Weddings are each unique, completely personal and so special and this was no exception.  The bridesmaids carried small bouquets of bluebells and greenery from the garden, miniature copies of the Bride’s flowers.  The Wedding party came in to the grove to the lilting sound of a harp and after the very moving Ceremony, left to more beautiful harp playing. The harp was later left by the fountain.

Click on any photo from the gallery to see an enlargement.

Waiting for the Wedding party

Path to the Grove

Fern lined path

Which path should I take?

Small wedding guest

The Bride

Beautiful young Bridesmaids

Rosie, the harpist, high up on the side of the Grove

Harp by the fountain

 

Victorian Gardens, A London Bus and Yachts

1    We spent a lovely couple of hours in Falmouth on this gloriously sunny (and warm!) day.  We were lucky enough to catch Shallal Dance Theatre rehearsing in the gardens by the bandstand.

Dancing on the lawn near the Bandstand

Rehearsing

They are a “dynamic, celebratory, socially inclusive company which  explores improvised dance theatre, providing a performance space for anyone and everyone in the community, seeking to enable artistic expression, improve physical health and self–confidence and provide a socially inclusive experience that will enhance the quality of life for all members through professionalism, dedication, skill acquisition and sheer good fun.”  They certainly live up to that promise and the happiness was shared by all who were lucky enough to be in the gardens today.

There are fabulous views over Falmouth Bay from the Gardens.

Quarry garden

From Gyllyngdune Gardens

2    It tickled us both to see an old London Bus go by!

A London bus – in Falmouth

3    The sea was beautiful shades of blue in the sunshine and we could see some tethered yachts in the distance tugging at their lines and just waiting to be sailed.

Yachts

Beautiful blues in the sea