Beautiful branches before they are obscured by leaves.

As sculpture is a 3D thing, a picture of a piece of work wouldn’t do it justice.

So here instead are a few shots of Dame Barbara’s studio in St Ives.

Lanhydrock is a rather grand country house in the south west of England. And as with most National Trust properties, some of the best bits are “downstairs “.

Sunrise in St Ives.

Fortunately, sunrise at the start of April is at a time when it’s socially acceptable to get up to catch it.

Unfortunately, that time is also when the transatlantic flights arrive in the UK.

And one from sunset.

On the way to buy a paper and finally the sun shines.

Sometimes.. look up

They were seen.