September days

A statue in the Italian Garden at Ednovean Farm

Is it my imagination or has a certain peace fallen over the countryside now? The frantic energy of the nesting birds; the voluminous growth of the plants as they approached the time to seed; the scurrying of the animals as they reared their young - all has settled down now, the race has been run and there is a gentle acceptance that that autumn is in the air.

The echiums once so dramatic have faded to elegant whispy spires shedding their seeds for future generation

In our garden I love the mellow look of the final emerging grasses but couldn't resist one final look back to summer in my final August blog post  to celebrate those bright blousy summer days. I took the snap above this morning as I cleared a bedroom terrace of their al fresco breakfast - It must have been wonderfully peaceful to sit and look down over the garde towards St Michaels' Mount and Penzance!

Breakfast on one of our private bedroom terraces
(sorry everthing else had been eaten!)

A day in the life of Ednovean Farm

my favourite Mount position as the skies cleared
mid morning

A day in the life of Ednovean Farm? Well yesterday for example - we always start quite early feeding the horses and just lately Dolly has started her schooling in the mornings before breakfast (yawn) a sort of effective time creation!

Dolly 4 starting her schooling with my husband Charles

The day started fairly cloudy but as the sun rose the skies cleared and I was able to take that magical shot of St Micheal's Mount from the courtyard one of my favourite vantage points - zooming in on the
 St Micheal's Mount beyond our sheltering belt of palms - I was intrigued to catch a glimpse of Penzance from an unusual position framed by the trees and the courtyard gate - I think that is the thing about garden views they should surprise and reveal and always give something to discover - anyway this after all of my preening with a camera, was my discovery yesterday. A niche, a little slot of blue, unexpectedly revealed........

A surprise view across Mounts Bay to Penzance,
from the courtyard framed by the gate

WE found time to sneak on to the (vacant Blue Room terrace) to try out the sun loungers there and soak up the sunshine for an hour in the afternoon before tackling window and door painting using the brown Sikiens wood stain that our planning permission dictated many years ago ( windows may be white or brown stain)which was an promotion form yesterdays power washing of gates and stone work. We were supervised by Ollie and Spud of course- Ollie particularly never misses a coffee break in the way of elderly cats, he magically, appears plodding relentlessly to solemnly claim his lap and sing his eternal purr song. Spud on the other hand prefers more robust activities and is never happier than when escorting us around the farm bounding beside us like a mini lion, occasionally stopping to explore mouse hole before racing to catch up.

Spud enjoys exploring - this time the Pink room bathroom
roof!

and finally our day complete the final drama of the sunset. It is shaping up to be a warm weekend so head to Cornwall if you have the time it is going to be a good one!

Yesterdays sunset was quite different - more "silent"

I really should cut back those Pampas's now!! but!!

The final "Turnereske" moments of the day

Magical sunset

A moment of magic at the end of the day - took this
photo from just in front of the Pink room, of St Micheal's
 Mount beyond our garden at Ednovean Farm

before walking down from the courtyard to the
lawn

From the lawn at Ednovean Farm looking out of the field
gate

I think this one is my favourite one of St Micheal's Mount
tonight

Slowly the sun sank lower behind Penzance across Mounts
Bay

and finally back to the terrace in the courtyard where the sun was still
a huge red disk

and finally was swallowed by the horizon

A long but happy day today renovating a corner of the garden that had developed a mind of its own but as the evening closed in as i nursed an aching back, a moment of magic revealed itself as the sun sank down behind St Micheal's Mount and our garden settled down to the night. Night night sweet dreams all.

Sunset

St Micheal's Mount from the terrace at Ednovean Farm

The wind has turned at last driving away the dirty grey skies and bringing back the welcome sounds of the sea. To celebrate nature laid on a dramatic sunset for us, setting behind St Micheal's Mount. How the position of the sunset has changed looking back into the winter when the sun set much further to the east over the open sea but I took this one from the terrace just in front of the Pink room at the end of my day.
Of course our day doesn't finish at dusk - we always go out to finally check our horses before bed time making sure all is well giving final feeds and topping up water buckets for the night. The night is usually silent a good  time to reflect upon the day and maybe admire the stars.......but the other night the peace was broken by loud snorts from the young horses across the lane - a crescendo, a frenzy or at least a snorting competition. We set off to investigate and Charles remarked "Pigs! There are six pigs there" and there snuffling under the stable doors for fallen oats were six plump porkers under Magic and Archies very noses. Needless to say they were not amused having never seen a pic before in their young lives  and the piggy kind are the equivalent to the boggie man to horses. I must say i felt quite nervous too as aparently they can deliver a nasty bite - they settle for some of Danni's Spillers nuts though. What to do with them though?A few phone calls later and the owner had been located and arrived with a torch and bucket full of rattly pig offerings to temp them home - they were last seen disappearing into the darkness and peace fell once again on the stable yard. So there we have it, the things that go bump in the night after sunset or in this case squeal snort!

Sunset behind St Micheal's Mount framed by the palms
in our garden

End of the day at Ednovean Farm

Wibur in passing

For the hottest day this year Wilbur made a rare daylight appearance, preening himself on the handy rock that has always stood just there in what was the old farmyard. Wilbur looks as though he has had a good winter, sheltering in the garden room, discreetly collecting his super when he thinks no one is looking and even sleeping in this year when the frost was on the ground. He has moved out now though just returning for his supper each night at dusk and haunting quiet corners of the garden by day - a very independent cat indeed! Just to help you this is Wilbur - almost invisible even on a good day so "purrfectly" do his strips disguise him Wilbur We passed St Micheal's Mount (click name to visit) on Monday evening and the end of the storm was still thrashing against the harbour there but "what a difference a day makes" to coin a phrase and yesterday was the hottest so far, clearing to the bluest sky, alas i was too busy to take a photo until latter in the day when the sunset was an OK one, with a huge sun slipping away from us and leaving us in anticipation of the morning. I'll be watching fo a better one this week! The end of the day at Ednovean Farm - not the best sunset but he end of a gorgeous day

Ollie Cat in the morning

Ollie Cat enjoys a short stroll before Breakfast and this morning i caught him waiting for the guests to arrive for Breakfast (because they were bound to open the front door weren't they?) from the kitchen window overlooking the Parterre. Of course artful puss soon spotted me and moved up to the door step ....who could resist his every demand!



Strangely looking out of the kitchen window this morning I spotted a whole field of daffodils just below St Micheal's Mount - I'm sure they weren't there yesterday!