October: A Month of Pumpkins; Day 9, Painted Pumpkins
Painted Pumpkins in Quebec City, Canada
Posts tagged ‘Travel’
Reason to Love St Ives # 7: Sculpture and Barbara Hepworth Garden
The Walkway Above the Gate at Trewyn House, St Ives
The Gate at Trewyn House, St Ives
The Entire Gate at Trewyn House, St Ives
Trewyn House, St Ives
During the Secret Garden Tour there was a lovely garden space that was the largest piece of turf that we saw in St Ives, that was devoted to a garden. The garden had a locked gate, and I got the feeling it was opened only on special occasions, hence for the Secret Garden Tour. Across from the garden a small lane divided the garden from one of the most unusual gates that I have ever seen. Behind that beautiful gate is the Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Garden or also known as Trewyn House.
Dame Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth DBE was an English artist and sculptor. Her work exemplifies Modernism and in particular modern sculpture. She was one of the few female artists to achieve international prominence. Hepworth was a leading figure in the colony of artists who resided in St Ives during the Second World War.
Barbara Hepworth first came to live in Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson and their young family at the outbreak of war in 1939. She lived and worked in Trewyn studios – now the Barbara Hepworth Museum – from 1949 until her death in 1975, from a fire in the studio. Following her wish to establish her home and studio as a museum of her work, Trewyn Studio and much of the artist’s work remaining there was given to the nation and placed in the care of the Tate Gallery in 1980.
‘Finding Trewyn Studio was a sort of magic’, wrote Barbara Hepworth. ‘Here was a studio, a yard and garden where I could work in open air and space.’ When she first arrived at Trewyn Studio, Hepworth was still largely preoccupied with stone and wood carving, but during the 1950s she increasingly made sculpture in bronze as well. This led her to create works on a more monumental scale, for which she used the garden as a viewing area.
The Garden of Trewyn House, St Ives
The Garden of Trewyn House, St Ives
The Garden of Trewyn House, St Ives
The Garden of Trewyn House, St Ives
Most of the bronzes are in the positions in which the artist herself placed them. The garden itself was laid out by Barbara Hepworth with help from a friend, the composer, Priaulx Rainier.
“Figure for Landscape” 1959-60, Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975
Garden Sculpture (Model for Meridian)1958, Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975
“Conversation with Magic Stones” 1973, Dame Barbara Hepworth 1903-1975
Her eldest son, Paul, was killed on February 13, 1953 in a plane crash while serving with the Royal Air Force in Thailand. A memorial to him, Madonna and Child, is in the parish Church of St Ives.
Exhausted in part from her son’s death, Hepworth travelled to Greece with her good friend Margaret Gardiner in August 1954.
When Hepworth returned to St Ives from Greece, she found that Gardiner had sent her a large shipment of Nigerian guarea hardwood. Although she received only a single tree trunk, Hepworth noted that the shipment from Nigeria to the Tilbury docks came in at 17 tons. Between 1954-1956 Hepworth sculpted six pieces out of this guarea wood!
It was proposed at one time to take up the garden and use the land to build council housing! I for one am glad they didn’t, it is a calming oasis is a sea of tourists.
HEPWORTH Barbara, 1966, sculpteur (GB)
© ERLING MANDELMANN ©
JNW’s Halloween Challenge: Monster
A Monster in St Joan of Arc Park, Quebec City, Canada
One of the BEST places to celebrate Fall is in Quebec City, Canada! Notice the ghosts in the trees too!
Have a spooktacular time with JNW’s Halloween Challenge! Enjoy!
Thursdays Doors: St Ives Again
George Hicks Court Archway, St Ives
I just love this photo: the archway, the cottage and the worn lane!
St Ives, Cornwall
This gate has a charming house design on it!
Rose Lane Church, Now a Memorial, St Ives
St Ives
Beautiful arches, gates and doors here!
St Ives
Popincourt, St Ives
The Door at the End of the Lane, St Ives
Old Overhead Door at Hain Steamship Co, St Ives
Doesn’t that logo on the Hain Door look like the Hanes Socks Logo? Hmmmmm……..
The Seagulls’ Door, St Ives
A Door to a Secret Garden, St Ives
Another Red Door with Gate in St Ives
One of My Favorite Lanes in St Ives (and Another Gate!)
St Ives
Doors in St Ives tended to be blue, followed by red, followed by black.
St Ives
Norway House, St Ives
The Norway Grocery, St Ives
And then every once in a while another color is thrown into the mix. Changes things up a bit!
Maize Colored Door, St Ives
The Corn Colored Door, St Ives
Now the Traditional Butchers Shop door is quite regular.
Traditional Butchers, St Ives
It was what was brought in every morning through the door that I watched for!
Meat! St Ives
There were just so many great doors, nooks and crannies in St Ives! I think I got the best! See you tomorrow in St Ives!
This is just one of many photos in the Thursday Door Collection featured by Norm2.0! Won’t you join in or take a peak at all the doors?
Reason to Love St Ives # 6: The Cottages
The Anchorage B&B, St Ives, Cornwall
I could spend hours walking the lanes and looking at the cottages! And I did! Enjoy St Ives!
The Oldest Cottage in St Ives
The Oldest House Plaque, St Ives
The Waters Edge Cottage
Downlong Cottage, St Ives
The Grey Mullet Guest House, St Ives
A View from the Hill, St Ives
The Victorian Cottages
Street an Garrow, St Ives
Norway House, St Ives
Itsy Bitsy Cottage, St Ives
The New Cottage on the Hill, St Ives
With Garden, St Ives
On the Beach, St Ives
The Cutest Cottage, St Ives
The Narrow Lanes in St Ives
Cottage Row, St Ives
Over the Water, St Ives
The Ivy on the Wall, St Ives
See you tomorrow in St Ives!
Reason to Love St Ives #5: The Cornish Pasty
Skys Diner, St Ives, Cornwall
A pasty is a baked pastry, a traditional variety of which is particularly associated with Cornwall and the men who worked in the tin mines. It is made by placing an uncooked filling, typically meat and vegetables, on one half of a flat shortcrust pastry circle, folding the pastry in half to wrap the filling in a semicircle and crimping the curved edge to form a seal before baking. In Cornwall the pasty must be formed in the shape of a “D” with the crimping to the side. The miners had a complete meal that could be easily carried and eaten without utensils and could stay warm for several hours, and if it did get cold, it could easily be warmed up on a shovel over a candle. The pasty was side crimped so the miner might hold the edge of the pastry so his dirty fingers (possibly including traces of arsenic) did not touch his food or his mouth. The edges of the pasty were thrown away. Often pasties were marked at one end with an initial, so the miner could recognize his pasty if it was not eaten all at once. There is a belief that the pastry on a good pasty should be strong enough to withstand a drop down a mine shaft, and the barley flour that was usually used did make hard dense pastry.
The Skys Diner was packed everyday and was also busy with tourists taking out shopping bags full of pasties!
The Pasties
Warrens Bakery, St Ives, Cornwall
The traditional Cornish pasty, is filled with beef, sliced or diced potato, swede (also known as yellow turnip or rutabaga ) and onion, seasoned with salt and pepper, and is baked. Today, the pasty is the food most associated with Cornwall. It is regarded as the National Dish and accounts for 6% of the Cornish food economy. And Warrens is the Oldest Cornish Pasty Maker in the World!
Philps Pasties, St Ives
At Philps Pasty you can eat in, take out, or you can get your pasties by Post! Everyone’s needs met! See you again tomorrow in St Ives!
Reason to Love St Ives #4: The Food
The Rum and Crab
How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways! St Ives, the rustic, charming, seaside town has so many restaurants tucked in here and there! And to our great surprise the food is very good quality and Very, Very, Did I say Very ? Reasonably Priced! No wonder from sunup to sundown the masses are flocking to St Ives! There are large groups of families here to sun and spend a day at the beach………and then Eat. There are retired folks coming from their camper vans to spend their day…… and then Eat! There are folks staying at the large spa on the hill and coming into St Ives for the day……. to Eat. And then once the sun goes down it is quiet and…… we Eat! I never saw any foolishness in the streets (AKA drunks) and I never saw a policeman either. This is the Family Town! No doubt about it. It is made to enjoy! Now let’s look at some more Eateries!
S H Ferrell & Son Bakery, St Ives
There are over 20 bakeries in St Ives! Just try to pick your favorite! I bet you will have a hard time!
The Tea Room, St Ives
The Tea Room, St Ives
The Tea Room, St Ives
The Tea Room, St Ives
I couldn’t get a picture of The Tea Room outside because it would only show a line of people waiting to get in! Get there early and it is worth the wait for an outside table with a view of the beach! As you can see from the pictures they serve more than tea! We ate there more than once too!
St Ives Harbour View Restaurant, St Ives
St Ives Harbour View Restaurant, St Ives
That’s an Understatement!!!
Look up and down every small lane! You will find the most interesting places tucked away!
The Lifeboat Inn, St Ives
The Mex, St Ives
The Mex meets your burrito, fajitas, BBQ ribs, chili fix!
Bumbles Tea Room, St Ives
Love the Map on Bumbles Windows!
Olives Cafe, St Ives
I love the fish railing at Olives!
Peppers Pizza, St Ives
Peppers Pizza, St Ives
Did I say YUMMY or what?
The Cornish Deli, St Ives
We LOVED the Cornish Deli and ate there more than once. I was so busy talking to the folks in there I never got a picture of the food! However, my favorite was their homemade crab sandwich!
The Golden Lion Restaurant and Beer Garden, St Ives
And you must not miss the beer garden! As you can see there are oodles of choices to eat at in St Ives! But we MUST have the famous Cornish Pasty! More on that tomorrow!
Reason to Love St Ives #3, More Beautiful Gardens
St Ives, Cornwall, UK
I went on a lovely Secret Garden Tour in St Ives and here are some more of the photos! First let’s go down this narrow passageway! And through the door! What will we find here?
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives, Cornwall, UK
This is just the most charming garden behind the door and off the beaten path!
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
This is what you do with old bed springs!
St Ives Secret Gardens
Old forgotten treasures add charm to the garden, don’t you think?
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
A Secret Garden needs a place to sit and ponder!
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
St Ives Secret Gardens
And finally a Very Important Reminder!
Very Important!
St Ives, Cornwall
Let’s go up this way next! See you tomorrow in St Ives!
Thursday Doors; St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
I’ve got lots of doors from St Ives!!!! So here are some doors and some cottages thrown in to boot! Fantastic place for DOORS! For most of these doors Mind Your Head and Mind the Gap!
St Ives, Cornwall
Notice that many of the doors in these pictures are surrounded by pipes of some kind!
St Ives, Cornwall
Red seems to be a very popular color here for a door!
St Ives, Cornwal
St Ives, Cornwall
Many doors come with tiny, tiny cottages!
St Ives, Cornwall
Many doors have fancy stuff on them!
St Ives, Cornwall
And some have tell-all signs and door knockers! This sign says “Dog” and the knocker is a wolf.
St Ives, Cornwall
Some have fancy knockers and a door handle a foot off the ground!
St Ives, Cornwall
Some have fancy covers!
St Ives, Cornwall
And some are just darling!
St Ives, Cornwall
Something tells me the door frame was added much later!
St Ives, Cornwall
St Ives, Cornwall
Some just never want to give up the boat!
St Ives, Cornwall
And some never want to be painted!
St Ives, Cornwall
And some are salty and crusted!
St Ives, Cornwall
And some have fancy wrought iron AND studs!
I hope you enjoyed this weeks doors from St Ives in Cornwall, UK! More to come next week from St Ives!
This is just one of many photos in the Thursday Door Collection featured by Norm2.0! Won’t you join in or take a peak at all the doors?
Reason to Love St Ives #2: The Gardens
The Gate to the Garden at a Victorian Terraced House, St Ives
I have been pondering and came up with this…… St Ives is like a US football stadium, only cut down the middle lengthwise. There is the sea on one side and half of the playing field is the beach. The bleachers and stands are the wobbly, wonky, cobbled, twisting lanes that go to the rim. Once you are on the rim you will discover the large parking lot and the cemetery! Then it’s all downhill again, but with less lanes, straight to another albeit bigger beach. With that said, now that you know the layout of St Ives, it was a marvelous weekend for me because some of St Ive’s secret gardens were open for viewing for a charity fundraising! So all is not lost on the garden front!
First, I walked up a Slight hill to see the gardens at the Victorian terraced houses! Let’s go in this gate!
The Gate to the Garden at a Victorian Terraced House, St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives, Cornwall
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The maroon-wine colored florets look like they are made of wood!
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives, Cornwall
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
The Victorian Gardens at St Ives
No Hawkers No Circulars!
The gardeners in most of these lovely terraced gardens were elderly gents!
The Road to the Victorian Terraces
Now which overhead line goes to which house? It would be a challenge on that pole!
The Victorian Terraces at St Ives, Cornwall
Some terraces had a garden front and some folks wanted a teeny, tiny space to park their car!
The Rose Blush on the Corner!
A Cacti in the Crack, St Ives, Cornwall
Wrap Around the Corner, St Ives, Cornwall
A Wall of Greenery, St Ives, Cornwall
There were several gardens on this lane, but we’ll explore some more on other lanes too! See you in the garden! Enjoy!
The Travel Lady In Her Shoes 