Sunday Selections #620

 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.

In Port Wakefield near the tiny beach (on the way to Port Pirie)

were these nicely painted planter pots

across the road was this old gun/cannon? which is very nicely maintained

in the Edward Robinson Memorial Park. There are other plaques with more information but I won't post those today.

Port Pirie grain silos, huge, white, boring. Behind these is a smaller row of grey silos that were being built when I lived here.

much prettier is this painted silo, set at the end of a disused rail track in the tiny town of Bute where we stopped on the way home, to eat lunch. 

On the road again I remarked to R that we hadn't seen a single abandoned ruin, they must have all collapsed by now.

then just around the next bend, we saw one! 

this is another view, it's a single wall with a fireplace open to both sides.

this is half of the Hotel balcony facing east and north, the pot plants are all half dead from a lack of water and there was a bit of rubbish  (empty pizza boxes etc) strewn around as well as a lot of dust.

this is the other half of the balcony facing south and west, lots of pigeon poop here with several of the birds roosting in the rafters. I guess nobody gets up here much to do any cleaning.

this is the curve of the balcony at the corner of the two halves. it was 6am when I stood up here enjoying the cool of the breeze before the sun got warmer

some of you will remember this old engine from the last time I visited Port Pirie

and the old railway station which is now a museum I believe

I watched freight carriages being shunted along towards the Smelters

by this engine which had been at the beginning, then uncoupled, moved to a different track and came up behind the carriages (trucks?) to push them to their destination.

looking down from the corner of the balcony we see the intersection of Ellen Street (port Pirie's main street) and David Street heading off to the right

zooming in along Ellen Street to see the flags flying, I don't know what all of them are, but I see Greece, Ukraine and there are five or six others.

this ginormous vehicle passed on its way to work at the smelters along with several other vehicles. 

This photo of the clouds that morning is now out of place, I touched a wrong key and can't centre it again.

more early morning clouds

and again, by now the sun was getting warm and the sky was beginning to haze.

finishing up with Genevieve the Gymnast! She lays on her back then lifts her whole body off the floor and tries to move in the direction her head is. I guess she will eventually learn to crawl the conventional way. The girls are seven months old now.