Sunday Selections # 535

 Long, long ago, in days of yore...Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. 

A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. 

Nothing rude or vulgar though.

And we don't mind at all if overseas bloggers care to join us.

The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I occasionally join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to Elephant's Child and have a look.

here is Lola, so deeply asleep nothing woke her for several hours

the house next door to the flats has industrial temporary fencing across the yard

it's been empty and neglected for quite some time and I'm wondering if it will be demolished and something else built in its place or if it will be renovated and perhaps sold. 

the next day I noticed the torn awning had been pulled off, some of the front fencing was gone, shrubs had been cut down to the ground,

and several window airconditioning units had been removed.

back in my yard, my plum trees still have quite a lot of leaves in their middle sections

while the upper branches are quite bare and letting sunlight to the pots below. I hope later, colder weather doesn't kill off the pepperomias

the ground under them is a carpet of red

almost all of the jade flowers have opened, but with the weather cooling down I expect them to not last as long as the spring/summer display

I went inside and couldn't see the sisters anywhere, but heard chatting and laughter from the enclosed back porch, so I left them to it

and made pizza dough

which rose nicely by the sunny front window as I assembled the ingredients for topping

passata with minced garlic added to spread over the base

finely chopped black olives, finely chopped prosciutto, just a little, and pineapple pieces sliced even thinner. I won't buy that brand again, the fruit is too pale and almost tasteless, certainly I couldn't smell pineapple when I opened the can.

thinly sliced mushroom and capsicum (bell pepper)

torn fresh basil

and cherry bocconcini, which I tore into smaller pieces and dotted them over the whole thing. I should have used more, or maybe slices of a bigger mozzarella ball. There just wasn't enough cheese when it came out of the oven.

one ball of dough, rolled out, was too big for the pizza tray, rolled a bit thinner it would have made two, so the remaining ball was divided in two before I froze it.

here it is ready for the oven. Home made pizza with thin crust should cook quickly so I had the oven set to the highest temperature and this was ready to eat in fifteen minutes.