Sunday Selections #581

 Long ago, 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 them and have a look.

Here we have Harley, the ex-undercover Bikie cop, telling some of his stories to Bunny

who remembers this upside down chunk of concrete which I painted dark green?

here is the other side, now transformed into a sunflower

I didn't have any orange or lime green paint, so mixed my own

here it is in the front corner of my garden, it looks a little odd, so I've named it 'damaged sunflower' in sympathy with the now damaged Ukraine.

you'll never guess what this is...bread dough! Just before it began rising. I had a go at making my own bread, with a very basic, four ingredients recipe. 

I didn't use bread tins for baking, just made rough loaf shapes and put them in the oven, I'll use bread tins next time.

fully baked, rustic loaves. The crust looks dry, like unglazed pottery, but the recipe hadn't said to brush anything over the loaves for baking, it was quite a hard crust, but the bread knife did a fine job.

looks and smells like bread

and the taste was fine too, with a good slather of butter, it made a nice lunch.

late afternoon sun lighting up what is left of my lawn, this is the path from my tiny porch down to the footpath. No fences. 😞 I miss fences.

look how extensive the bare patches are now and the drop on either side of that path is about four inches, maybe more. This happened years ago when for some unknown reason the automatic watering system was turned off, possibly because of water restrictions, but then wasn't turned back on for YEARS and the soil dried up and shrank away, the grass died, and now every time the gardeners trim the edges, the just weed-whack them further back from the path. I could fix this by top-dressing with a few tons of topsoil maybe, but that's quite expensive and I don't have the budget, plus it might all just wash away down the slope of the grass, it isn't level and really should be terraced. I'd like to dig out those exposed slabs of slate and concrete and use them as a path in the garden bed, but I don't know how big and heavy they are and they might leave holes too big for safety. Neighbours often walk across at this point instead of going via the paths.