Sunday Selections # 664

 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 other bloggers care to join us.

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

Wisewebwoman has also occasionally been joining us.

a few too many today, but I don't think you'll mind, get a cuppa and settle into your favourite chair:

a few knick-knacks you have't seen yet:

a lion and his cub, when I ordered this I forgot to check the dimensions and he is quite a bit larger than I expected, 23cm x 14cm, that's 9 inches long and 5 1/2 inches high

a "good luck" troll I bought way back in 1987-8, he used to have a tiny green shirt instead of the blue bow but I don't remember what happened to it.

another dragon, this one with a day-of-the-dead skull surrounded by five tiny hand-made skulls sent to me many years ago  by the originator of Sunday Selections, Kim. She does lovely ceramic works.

you can see by the indentations this dragon is meant to be an ashtray, but I don't smoke.

November in South Australia is Jacaranda time, the streets are lined with purple blossoming trees and the footpaths are carpeted with fallen flowers which get mushy when it rains and they stick to the treads of sneakers and can be slippery under smooth soled shoes.

this pretty pink is a "Gaura", also called a butterfly bush, I think because the blooms are on long thin stems which dance around in the slightest breeze so the flowers flutter

this is on the same bush as the white ones below and is probably a result of cross-pollination by bees between the pink bush and the white

here are the white flowers, the two bushes are planted side by side.

further down the road and around the corner are several fences covered in roses which got badly sunburned 

on a really hot dry day recently, but just across the road, on the shady side of the street

are hollyhocks blooming happily in pinks

and whites

darker pinks

and paler pinks

closer to home a small stand of Coreopsis is cheering up the footpath, sadly my own two small plants haven't blossomed this year, not yet anyway. Last year I got two blossoms which the cockatoos nipped off and ate.

a random cutting I saved from when someone ripped off most of a bush I had growing near the mailboxes here, the stem they left behind had this small viable branch and a bigger dead piece. I stuck this piece in the pot on my porch and hoped it would live and of course it did, I dug it out the dead bit and tossed it, guess where the rest of it is? In the same narrow strip of dirt where the hollyhocks are, I see it as I pass on my way to the shop everyday. It's growing well.

a random cloudy sky shot

"no-one" went out to visit the twins and brought them some early Christmas gifts

"what's this?"

Learning to open the wrapping

"help me too please?"

Jigsaws with their names in lift out letters! What a fun way to learn to spell your own name 😀

Ana tries hers

and here they are having fun in empty boxes.