Water, water, everywhere

This one was taken as we headed out, hoping to see puffins.

This one was probably taken from another place where we dined on St. Mary's. Sea views are quite common on small islands! Note at the back the Scillonian ferry, the one that later proved so very uncomfortable in high seas.

The Scilly lifeboat and the now-disused lifeboat house, with launch. Twenty years ago, this lifeboat house was in use. It seems so odd that, within my adult lifetime, things can have changed so much. Note, these were either taken on different days, or on our last day, when the weather changed instantaneously.

Dining in the Scillies

This is a meal that Victor and I enjoyed during our brief stay on the Scilly Islands. (The stay that was interrupted by the big storm at sea.) It was VERY cheesy!

Out the window from where we were seated, we saw cute little shorebirds picking among the seaweed and rope.

And here's another picture of me. I uploaded one of Vic in the same spot, on St. Mary's, Scilly Islands.

Honest-to-goodness puffins

And here are the puffins! So cool.

Padstow & Port Isaac

Vic took some pictures of me in Cornwall. Note that I took no pictures of me, since I was behind the iPad. LOL

We really enjoyed Padstow (best cream tea, remember?). It's on our itinerary for next time.

Revisit St. Just

Here are Victor's pictures of the coastal area around St. Just. (Remember, the pictures I posted were exclusively those taken with my iPad. I didn't have a way to transfer pics from Vic's high-resolution camera.)

This (above) is probably a mine chimney.

The presence of so many ruins everywhere is, to me, reminiscent of Detroit. I was just perusing a book of photographs of empty and ruined structures in Detroit. It may be a modern-day equivalent.

Behind

I can't believe that it's the last day of June, but the first day during June that I'm posting to my blog. I can't say that I haven't had time. What I can say is that I was engaged in a big project that required full weekends on the computer and printer. (Vic and I want all our favorite recipes, from countless sources, collected in one spot, so I've been working on a new way of saving and displaying them.) I did carefully crop and save many images to my Blog file, meaning to upload them. They will be the next things that I publish here, I swear.

Backache

I am, thankfully, off crutches. In truth, I spent less time on crutches than on a scooter that belonged to my mother. Also in truth, the scooter is actually a walker designed to support the knee. I used the knee support as a seat and pushed myself around with one foot, backward. But anyway. Now that I am off confinement to a scooter, my back can't handle standing. If I'm moving, then I'm OK. But standing still is a challenge that I can hope to meet soon. Victor is pretty tired of doing all the cooking AND all the cleanup after meals. It has not been the best way to enter the summer, but now it IS summer, and I will soon be whole. Well, whole--but for having a few health matters that I would like to resolve: a stress test to ensure that my ticker is strong, and a biopsy to relieve the folks who do mammograms. And I have an itchy lump on the side of my nose! I will only cope with one thing at a time.