Scenic Sundays - Patterns at the Beach

I spent yesterday at the beach at Southerndown near Bridgend, South Wales, with my husband and son.  It's a really picturesque place.  The rocky beach gives way to golden, flat sand when the tide goes out, leaving lots of interesting rock pools to investigate.

Apart from the obvious, albeit beautiful, sea vista, I am also drawn to the patterns and textures that you can see on the beach - in the sand, the water, the rocks...

Calendula Watch

If you've read the blog before, you'll know that I'm rather partial to Calendulas.  I've been growing them for a few years now, but last year was the first time that I did it in earnest and got an amazing crop of flower heads and petals to use in our soaps (see my previous post Bright and Beautiful Calendula).  I'm aiming to reproduce, if not better the haul for this year.  The first flowers were harvested at the start of June, and so far the running total of harvested flowers is 148. With another couple of months to go before the plants run out of steam it's looking good for another bumper harvest, unless the weather decides not to cooperate!