Sunday Selections # 671

 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 been joining us.

remember my new gnomes?

the painting has begun with a bright red cap

and a green cap. These are oil based paints,

not so easy to clean up when the paint runs where it shouldn't. I over-loaded the brush 😟

many of my other gnomes also need a little touching up where they have faded from being in the garden years ago, I need to buy more paint.

a fence nearby still has its Christmas look

and I was cheered to hear the whistling of this blue budgerigar (budgie)

a red flowered gum tree in full bloom

here is a closeup of the flowers

and a local snail-creeper vine is also in full bloom, I've heard these are very hard to get started from seed or cuttings

a closeup shows why the flowers are called "snails"

a bright orange rose

and a painted garden box on a footpath

meanwhile in "no-one's" garden...

her dwarf apple tree is producing delicious granny smith apples as well as the red delicious from last week's showing, it is a multi-grafted tree.

"no-one" has bought a chilli plant and will be learning to make her own chilli sauce

her unused bed has a random self-sown tomato growing strongly.

here is Genevieve on her bouncy caterpillar

and looking quite solemn out in the yard

watching the bubbles floating around

they have a bubble making machine

here is Anastasia chasing bubbles

looks like great fun

Gen on her bike

and Ana on hers.