Girl on the beach

Today's the day ............... that the St Ives Festival began

Too many blip opportunities today because St Ives was full of people performing - either deliberately or inadvertantly! It was the start of two weeks of events, concerts, races and all sorts of interesting things that make up the St Ives Festival. What's more - the sun was shining and the sea was blue - there were so many good pictures to be had ........

In the end, I went for this picture of a little girl in a lovely party frock, playing on the beach. She seemed to be lost in a world of her own, running in and out of the waves, dragging bits of seaweed behind her and just quite happy with her own company.

It was all going like a funfare in the streets of St Ives - but she was oblivious to it all .............