Jessie Lilac Blog

Duke Street, Dartmouth, near to where my exhibition is. I love this time of year with both Christmas and my birthday coming up. The days since my exhibition have been spent decorating the house ready for the big day. I've got all my children coming this year so I'm particularly excited about it! I'll upload some pics in my next post. :) We had a visit to Coleton Fishacre yesterday evening to see the christmas-bedecked house and garden. When I arrived, I realised that I'd forgotten to put the memory card back in my camera so I had to take the photos with my phone, hence the fuzziness but here are the pics anyway! These little snowy creatures were all in a line along the fireplace of the library. Modern snowmen don't seem to be pipe smokers any more do they?! I love how they all wear hats and carry a cane or an umbrella too. A cane, a pipe and a hat, all essential items in the olden days! The house and garden lo...

Summer's such a lovely time for colours! I took the photo above at a local National Trust property, Coleton Fishacre in Devon. Quite often when I visit here I don't go into the house. When I first used to come here many years ago, the house wasn't open to the public but when it was, I was one of the first to have a look around. We had to wear what looked like plastic carrier bags on our feet to protect the newly finished flooring. I'm very pleased to say that's not the case these days. The house was near to closing for the day so we had a speedy look around the lovely art deco rooms, not much time for photo taking I'm afraid. But I did take a quick photo in this room. I love wood and the beautiful wood on these chairs was just gorgeous. The garden there's pretty lovely too with my favourite summer flower, delphiniums. ♥  ♥  ♥  Such colour! ♥ I'm told these are called Penstemon. ...