Sunday Selections

Welcome back to Sunday Selections.

Begun way back in the mist of time by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock and now continued by me, with a drastic relaxation of rules.

Originally meant for showcasing old photos lost on your files, never seeing the light of day, the meme has morphed into photos of your choice, new or old, good or not-so-good, anything you please, but nothing rude please.

If you are participating, please leave me a comment so I can buzz along and have a look.
Elephant's Child usually participates, and she may or may not be back today.

I managed to get photos off my camera after my pretty little laptop had a nice long beauty sleep. 

this is the honey I'm currently using in my cups of tea,  Beechworth brand, which is always nice tasting, 'Bee Cause'  Mountain Honey.

100% Australian Honey...Always!

Every jar of Beechworth Honey enjoyed contributes to saving Australia's honeybees.

And for me, that's a cause worth standing behind.

Following doctor's orders, I have been out walking every day (almost), gradually increasing time spent walking and speed of walking, not rushing, but walking more normally than the heavy-footed shuffle that's been happening recently.

Yesterday I took my camera with me.

I thought this bark pattern looked interesting,

and the way the branches grew out in a circle around the tree, starting above my head height and growing shorter as the neared the top of the tree. 

this is what the leaves look like, and no, I did NOT pull these off, they were already lying on the ground.

a little further along, this old tree stump caught my eye. I've walked this path before, although it wasn't brick paved back then, and I remember this tree being very large and half dead. I'd say it was cut down so as not to be a danger to people walking and riding their bikes. It's well dried out, so must have been cut several years ago.

It's quite large, about ten feet from the front right hand corner to the back left just beyond that little bit sticking up higher.

this split, charred section tells me it may have been struck by lightning at some point.

the wood grain may not show very well, but it is quite pretty with its multiple growth rings. I wouldn't mind having a slab of this polished up as a coffee table. The general shape of the entire stump reminds me of the large polished slab, mounted on a piece of old trunk/root section of another tree, which is used as a dining table in the Arkaba Hotel. It's a huge table, the Coles girls and I sat around it at our Christmas/New year dinner.

The setting sun backlit these clouds very nicely.

Let's finish with Lola:

doing an excellent Angel impersonation.