lurcher ancestry

Spot feels very jealous of the blogs (link)he has seen recently with pictures of other people's ancestors; he has roots too, so here are his great grandpa and great granny Fox. He knows how proud they would be that he also is a prize winning lurcher. Great granny looks just like Harri, except that like most Victorians she has a very thick neck.

pheasant dreams

"If only I were a little tit"


ps apologies for the camera shake

Carthamartha

Carthamartha, the ancient hill fort can be seen just peeping up above the line of farm buildings, the bank of fog is in the Tamar valley, and the much smaller line of mist in the foreground is in the Inny valley. It looks as if someone has combed the land. Spot's interesting discovery today is that rooks build their nests in exactly the same place each year and are not much use, therefore, for predicting the weather.

St Piran's Day

March 5th is St Piran's Day, the patron saint of Cornwall; we vote for an extra bank holiday.

Inny daffodils again

for me this is an enduring image that epitomises something about this quiet little bit of Cornwall, something restful and loveable and endlessly satisfying.

(painting by paintshop pro XI ... I wish I could paint like that myself. Perhaps it does count as creative painting but just in a different way that anyone can achieve)

light and shade in the woods today during a long walk. There are signs of Spring everywhere now, even some purple toothwort (see earlier posts) and wood spurge.

the approach to Downhouse

crocuses and daffodils (for St David's day) on the road leading to Downhouse on a sunny March morning