Sunday Selections #632

 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.

Back to the flowers again:

in the neighbour-on-the-corner kerb garden are these purple flowers, I have no idea what they are

but they also come in white

bright orange flowers from a bulb, also unknown to me

they grow in a circle, last year there were only five, this year seven

bright yellow coreopsis, my own didn't flower, the cockatoos nipped off the buds

Queen Anne's Lace I think

and a close-up of the flower heads

my favourite yellow rose, she has other roses in pinks and white but I like this one best

leaves changing colours

rosehips everywhere! these are tiny but there are larger ones around

Back inside now, a few of the ornaments that I dust off now and again:

I call this magician Merlin, but he is more likely Dumbledore from the Harry Potter series of movies. I found him in a thrift store for only $3, the glass dome is from Ikea.

another thrift store find, quite heavy and blank on the other three sides, only a few inches tall but I like it.

this little plastic cube is a puzzle I've had for many years, you have to tilt it back and forth and try to get all the ball bearings into the holes 

not as easy as it looks, but I did learn to get them all in (and left-handed too), but these days I can't seem to manage it

a lamp I bought from Ikea, I cannot get the bulb to sit straight no matter how many times I insert it

but it works and has a nice warm glow

last thing on the top of my roll-top desk is this tiny clay llama bought for only $2 from a store that was closing down.

Into my own garden now:

I dug down into the potato pot to see if anything was happening and I'm glad I did because I discovered only the first few inches of soil was damp with the rest being bone dry in spite of all my watering, so I buried this shoot again and turned the hose on it.

I also found this half potato covered in shoots, so I buried that again too and hope it keeps growing

there were many of these tiny bead sized potatoes, the two larger pieces here are one potato that I accidentally chopped in half with my little trowel. It was only a couple of centimetres across, but at least something is happening in that pot. 

here are the twins in their new winter beanies, can you tell which is which? I guessed wrong!

This is Anastasia looking very pleased with herself, she keeps trying to climb onto her feet but hasn't quite managed it yet.

These next two are videos of Genevieve and I hope they play, you'll need to turn your sound up

Gen saying Nan Nan Nan

and interacting with the Teletubbies on TV