Sunday Selections # 612

 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 their blogs and have a look.

beginning with grand daughter #2, dressed for her end of year formal dance, looking very pretty. I love her gown.

I rescued this statue from a neighbour's garden, have I shown this before? This neighbour has had several bad falls and is now in a care home. See where it is broken down by the feet?

here is a closer look, there is quite a gap there and the figures were quite wobbly.

the dish at the top which is meant to be a water dish for birds I think, is also broken and the missing piece could not be found. I'm still working on ideas to fix that.

here is the "repaired" statue as good as it gets without calling in professional repairers. The mended area cracked a little as we manouvered it back into the garden, so I'll add a bit more cement around it.

this was also in C's garden, in two pieces, you can see where I mended it and it now sits in my garden.

The inscription reads: 

"The kiss of the sun for pardon, 

The song of the birds for mirth, 

You are nearer God's heart in a garden, 

Than anywhere else on Earth."

Riley and Gillian are practising their mountaineering skills, without a rope! or a safety net!

I planned on pruning the dark pelargoniums but when I saw the maintenance gardener out with his hedge trimmer I asked him to please do it. Brrrt! In five seconds he had done what would take me quite a bit longer AND he took away all the trimmed pieces after I had selected a few stems to give to neighours and "no-one". I rescued a few flowers to put in my kitchen.

On my front porch the mini sunflowers are covered in buds

and the first one opened a couple of days later

this season I again have only one coreopsis flower. ONE! The neighbour down the road a bit has plenty.

finishing again with the girls, the youngest of the older brothers had a Halloween themed birthday party, so of course Gen and Ana dressed appropriately 😀💖💖