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.
If you are participating, please leave me a comment so I can buzz along and have a look.
Elephant's Child always participates, and her pictures are always worth seeing.
Spring has been springing about here in South Australia, giving us wild weather moods and bouts of prettiness:
all watched over by this charming gentleman
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.
Elephant's Child always participates, and her pictures are always worth seeing.
Spring has been springing about here in South Australia, giving us wild weather moods and bouts of prettiness:
bright sun behind gathering storm clouds
the wind blew a few of them away
the street trees are wearing bright green coats of new leaves
does everyone see the bird in this old broken branch?
millions of sneeze inducing blossoms on my plum trees, dozens of bees too
my star flowers are overflowing the pot
bright clivias are flowering again under the shade of a giant lilly-pilly tree
a barrow of pretty pansies
pots too
a river of daisies, with>>>
a bonus butterfly 😀
more next week.
Happy Birthday to E, my brother's grandson who is five years old today.
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Beautiful, lovely pictures. I just LOVE that gentleman!!!
ReplyDeletePeace Thyme; he's a cutie and so low maintenance too :)
DeleteThe sky photos are awesome, I love the orange flowers but what the heck is a lilly-pilly tree and Mr. Frog is delightful.
ReplyDeleteI, too, want to know what a lilly-pilly tree is!!
DeleteGrace and fishducky; a lilly-pilly is a large tree with glossy green leaves and tiny purple berries. It's said thta jam can be made from the berries and in early settlement days people probably did that before fruit orchards got growing, but it's very fiddly work I read somewhere, and not worth the trouble. I did post a photo of the tree once a long time ago, I'll have to take another and post it.
DeleteLOVE that sky.
ReplyDeleteYour gardens are more advanced than ours. I hope the cockatoos leave us some starflowers.
And a very happy birthday to E.
Elephant's Child; we are warmer than Canberra, but your flowers will appear soon enough. There aren't any cockatoos around here to destroy the blossoms, they must have all moved interstate.
DeleteThat froggy looking alien is adorable. Curious about the lilly-pilly tree also, Will check Google.
ReplyDeleteHappy Birthday E.
Arkansas Patti; I love Mr Frog and wish I could find similar statues for my garden. Of course then I'll worry they might get broken by people tromping through my patch, so it's just as well I can't find any. The lilly-pilly is a tall tree with glossy leaves and small purple berries much loved by our rainbow lorikeets.
DeleteClivias are in full bloom up this way, too. During this past week we had some nice rain...much-needed rain...not a lot but all is welcome. I wish we could've sent it out to all the drought-ridden areas though. They need it much more than we do.
ReplyDeleteHave a great week, River. I hope your hands are feeling a lot better, and are rapidly on the mend. Cuddles to the lovely Lady Lola. :)
Lee; Lola has been extremely cuddly lately, always wanting to sleep on my lap when I'm in the recliner watching TV and snuggling under the sheet at night to curl up beside my ribs. I have one clivia in my small patch of garden but it isn't showing any signs of flowers. I should probably water it. The hands have good days and bad days.
DeleteIs there a bird in the branch hollow? I can't see it if there is. I can see the branch looks a bit bird like, if that is what you meant. Love the gentleman frog, and the plum blossom.
ReplyDeleteAndrew; no real bird, it is the branch that looks like one, or as Val says below, a bit like an alligator.
DeleteNice!
ReplyDeletejoeh; thank you. How is your garden looking?
DeleteSpring, sigh! Such lovely photos!
ReplyDeleteSusan Kane; I love spring too, but not the headachy hayfever that comes with it. my asthma flares up during spring too.
DeleteYour spring is springing up beautifully, and i wish E many, many happy returns of the day.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; spring does tend to spring up out of nowhere doesn't it? One day there's nothing, the next day flowers are everywhere.
DeleteI looked for the bird, but it was elusive. Unless it's in that round hole. The limb itself reminds me of an alligator, more so when I enlarged it.
ReplyDeleteVal; there's no real bird, the limb itself resembles one, with the round hole being the eye and the neck stretched out behind that and the beak to the right. It could also be an alligator as you see it, I hadn't thought of that, but now I see it too.
DeleteGrandma has been at it again with the fairy garden houses.
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