Sunday Selections # 677

 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.

Elephant's Child is taking a break this month.

Wisewebwoman has also been joining us occasionally.

in case anyone is interested, these are our Australian coins, left to right top to bottom, Fifty cents, twenty cents, ten cents, five cents two dollars, one dollar. We began in 1966 with one and two dollar notes, but switched to coins later.

this memorial coin, a twenty cent coin, was released after Queen Elizabeth had died, The smaller image stamped onto it with the wheat sheaf design, is from our original pre-decimal threepence piece and celebrates the length of time The Queen reigned. 

the gnomes are finally finished, here they are on the newspaper still drying

and here they are without all the painting paraphernalia. Now I need to decide where to put them.

this is Genevieve studying the new matchbox cars no-one gave them

and Anastasia doing the same, both girls love cars

in Adelaide's Botanic Gardens, these seats are where we usually all meet whenever we are getting together for a picnic

I love the knobbly look of this tree trunk (gardens photos taken by "no-one")

one of my favourites is this enormous trunk with a hollowed section

and this is what is inside the hollow, more roots.

a willow tree hanging over the lake

and this, whatever it is, I have forgotten

moving on to something completely different, I was at the airport a few weeks ago, watching a Qantas plane come in, I have a video, but the file is too large and won't load.

I was expecting my blog friends Iris and her husband Ingo (rhymes with Dingo) and stood watching as every passenger disembarked, but they weren't there!

Their Qantas flight had been cancelled and they were on a different plane, so i ran back to the previous gate and there they were coming off Jetstar plane instead.

They were headed to the Parklands Terminal and didn't know the way, so I offered to meet them and get them there. 

this "wasteland" is our interstate train station, I'm looking back towards the road at this point

in the other direction is the long long walk to the platform

where the sign tells you "yes this is the right place", finally! After catching a bus from the airport to the city, walking to the Central Market for a very quick look around, then another bus to the intersection of Anzac Highway and Richmond Road, where we had to walk to the corner, cross the road , walk down and around and down again to get to the "wasteland"

from here you can arrive or leave on The Ghan which traveles between Adelaide and Darwin, The Indian Pacific which travels between Adelaide and Perth and The Overland, which travels between Adelaide and Melbourne. I'm not sure where The Great Southern Railway goes.

And here they are waiting to check in their luggage. I'd planned on waiting and waving them off as the train left, but after sitting and sort of chatting (Iris and I are both shy) I learned the train wasn't going to leave until about 9.30pm! I couldn't stay that long and go home alone in the dark, so I said goodbye, (possibly a little too abruptly) and went home to my cat.

We had exchange Welcome gifts, but the photo won't load off my phone for some unknown reason. I will show that next week after I take new photos with my camera.