From Porthleven to Mullion by foot

A fabulous sunny Sunday for a walk along the coastal footpath from Porthleven to Mullion. The photos, as usual, don't do it justice and are confusing, as some are taking looking towards our destination, some back at Porthleven...
Maybe it would be better to be disciplined and take only shots of the path ahead. But it's so tempting to look back to take pictures of how far we've come.
Someone later tells me that he regularly cycles on this path. Rather him than me.

Leaving Porthleven

Loe Bar

Loe Pool (in distance)

the path to Church Cove, Gunwalloe

Looking back at Gunwalloe Church and cove

Edward Hopper and serendipity

An unexpected discovery at the Royal Academy yesterday afternoon.... two Edward Hoppers including the painting above.

They're part of America after the Fall: painting in the 1930s.  The petrol station painting is usually in New York. It's far more brilliant and shiny that this reproduction suggests - the colours are shiny and enamel bright. So much light streaming from the garage windows. It's not a bleak painting. 

Solitude, romance and the difficulty of saying goodbye

The French poet Baudelaire inspired Edward Hopper apparently - that's why Hopper's paintings of solitary people in service stations and cafes are so romantic. They're not entirely bleak: there is usually some poetry in them. 

The poetry of station platforms and waiting rooms....
I've got to the stage now where I try never to say goodbye on a station platform. The car park is just as good. Anything to avoid the rapidly diminishing figure(s) left behind as the train pulls out - or vice versa.