End of Summer + New School Year

So, we left Cornwall a week ago, and already it seems like ages ago now.  Despite the lousy weather, family rows (needless to say) and having spent a lot more time indoors than we would have liked, it was still lovely to be there. Polperro as ever, retains it’s rustic charm. We didn’t do all the trips that we had planned, though we did manage a trip to the Lost Gardens of Heligan, which was every bit as gorgeous and interesting as I had hoped. Sadly, due to back issues, I was not able to walk around all of the gardens, but Luke and Orla did.  I think she loved the jungle and Mud Maid best. What shots I managed to take will be uploaded at some future point.

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Christina in Red by Mervyn O’Gorman

Mervyn O’Gorman was 42 when he took these pictures of his daughter, Christina O’Gorman at Lulworth Cove, in the English county of Dorset. He photographed Christina wearing a red swimming costume and red cloak, a colour particularly suited to the early color Autochrome process.

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Creative + Passionate + Inspired

Lorrie Whittington is an illustrator, designer-maker, free spirit, chocolate eating geek, living in the heart of the Sussex countryside on the south coast of Britain. She draws, paints, reads a lot, makes things with clay, likes scf-fi and hangs out with her daughter.