Sunday Selections # 682

 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 occasionally.

Several people have shown their Toby Jugs recently, so here are mine:

this one given to me by my mother who told me it was valuable so I should never sell it

this is the marking on his base, I'm not so sure about him being valuable, but I would never sell him anyway.

this glossy taller one sitting on a beer keg was found in a thrift shop priced at only $5

here is a side view

and the marking on his base.

my Hoya has flowered again! it's been five years since I last saw a blossom on it and this one is high in a tree where I don't usually look, about four feet above the pot holding the plant.

my Bee Hotel has several of the tubes occupied though I have never seen any bees near it (they have a hive inside the big White Cedar tree) 

as I took the photo above a red and black wasp flew into the top tube pictured here, so quickly I didn't catch him/her with the camera, just buzzed right by my extended arm.

the Bee Hotel is fixed to a board attached to the plum tree and has this metal bee attached

she has lost her eyes, they are buried somewhere in the mulch below

the ladybug on the same board

still has her eyes

as does the cricket on the back of the board.

here is the full view of him

another ladybug lives on this larger pot that holds cuttings of Gollum, a member of the Crassula (Jade) family 

Olga on the left, chickens in the middle and Roscoe (dog) and Rosie (cat) over on the right have all been a little buried in the new mulch spread around all the gardens here recently.

another mural from Melbourne Street in North Adelaide

goes from the front of the store

almost all the way to the back

can you spot the cleverly disguised drain pipe?

painted by "Nicky Create" and very nicely too. This is one of my favourite murals.

here are the girls getting settled in the swing at the park

and having a wonderful time.