From sunset until dawn

Mounts Bay from the garden this morning


A full moon still sailed over Mounts bay as i made my way out into the dawn this morning to find the yearlings already waiting by the gate in the back field to come in for their breakfast, the sky shot with streaks of cerise behind them. Then back to the stables beside the car park for Charles and I to take this years foals and attendant brood mare Diva out into the dawn across the dew laden grass. Toffee (a colt foal) had already discovered that his upturned breakfast bin made a good substitute for a toy drum and there was a certain amount of muttering from the next stable as Charles adjusted a "new" hand-me-down headcollar for him before tackling the reluctant Magic with Toffee's now redundant attire. A short scuffle later that allowed me enough time to finish mucking out Danni we were ready for the morning crocodile to the hard work of mowing the pastures. And then back across the garden to check the Brood mares at the front of the house just as Mounts Bay was caught in the pink light of the dawn.





The church in the valley below Ednovean Farm against the dawn

St Micheal's mount always somehow smaller in photos

The sunlight had already reached the moors that rise behind the Italian Garden

I waited for the sunset yesterday evening, a small golden affair but i always like to imagine the people waking up to its new light as we sink into darkness

The pampas's blooms - dramatic for a moment in the dying sun

the horses now wrapped in their winter rugs for the night enjoying the hay that is the fruit of summer for them

the teasels waiting for the birds

and still magical days or brilliant sunshine for the garden

with the fountain playing in the courtyard caught by the sunlight, glowing in the dusk

and coming back to life just as i returned to the house to start cooking our guests Breakfast with the rays of the sunshine yet to reach the courtyard but with the laundry truck already arriving to collect the linen to start the day. a day form dawn to dusk and back to the dawn at Ednovean farm.