Sunday Selections # 124
Welcome back to Sunday Selections!
This once-a- week-meme was originally begun by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, as a
way to showcase some of the many photos we all take, but don't get around to
showing on our blogs.
The rules are very simple:-
1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections
title
2. link back to me, River, somewhere in your post
3. leave me a comment so that I know you've joined in and can come over and
see what you've posted.
4. hop on over to The Elephant’s Child to see more of her wonderful photos.
I usually go with a theme for my Sunday Selections and this week I'm
continuing with some photos of the streets and gardens surrounding these flats I live in.
I like palms, they make me think of sandy beaches on islands, although island palms are usually coconut.
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These are lovely. We don't do palms well here - too cold I suppose. I love the 'mop tops' and the texture of the bark. The birds are a bonus too. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteJust imagine living where palm trees grow...
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting the tree appears to have maintained its integrity in spite of the birds digging for dinner.
ReplyDeleteThe last photo is really good.
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful! Our palms here in Florida also bear fruit, which used to drive me crazy as my pug would eat the fruit and then poo bright red seeds making me think she was terribly ill!
ReplyDeleteElephant's Child; it would be too cold in Tassie, Adelaide is more Mediterranean in climate. That scaly texture is lovely, but will eventually all be eaten away and the trunk will be smooth like the palm by the building.
ReplyDeleteDelores; There's been palms in every city I've lived, except the one I was born in, Hamburg doesn't have palms, too cold.
Joanne Noragon; the birds are only digging through the outer scaly layer, not into the sturdy trunk underneath.
Andrew; thanks, I like that one too.
Cindi; that would be worrying until you found the cause and realised he was okay. I had a similar reaction one year when my kids bought and ate brilliantly coloured football team lollipops.
I'm with Delores. Imagine living where there are palm trees! We have evergreens. And thing hardy . . .
ReplyDeleteThank you for some magnificent pics of majestic palms. Are the bird lorikeets? The colours weren't all that clear but I thought they perhaps could be. We have many of them in Perth now although of course they are not endemic to W.A. but caged birds set free over the years. We often get them in our large bottlebrush and our cotton palm as well. Noisy little blighters they are too.
ReplyDeleteAnother wonderful Sunday selection.
..Hello River ...
ReplyDeleteLove your palm tree photos.... living in Sydney we have palms of many varieties growing here..... they always look majestic.....
We get the birds into the palm in my next door neighbor's yard.. lovely to watch them amongst the flower sprays....
Hgs
Barb xx
Diane Tolley; we have evergreens too, our eucalypts of course along with assorted conifers and cypress.
ReplyDeleteMimsie; I'm pretty sure they are lorikeets, although without a bird book I'll never really be 100%, but peopel have told me they are and I believe them. They are noisy, so cheerful.
Barbara Neubeck; I lived in Sydney twice, but way out in the suburbs, Glenfield and later Holsworthy, I didn't see too many palms out there. birds darting from flower to flower are wonderful to watch.
Wonderfully tropical images :)
ReplyDeleteAre the Lorikeets after blossom pollen/nectar?
Vicki; possibly, although they also eat fruits and seeds.
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