Sunday Selections # 716

 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.

I almost forgot to post this, the week just flew by...

Going back to the past for a while, some of you may remember me mentioning the gardens I used to have in previous homes, where the soil was so great. 

Here is the best one>

The grapevine that covered the back porch and my beautiful windchime which no longer exists.

The view from the back door all the way down to the back fence, complete with a shirt on the washing line.

and here I am standing against that back fence looking toward the back door, under all that greenery which is that grapevine. I'm standing in what was the old chook yard, that ferny plant on the left is an asparagus, the tree is a fig.

clumps of straw waiting to be spread in the vegetable patch as son J puts up his basketball hoop.

a wider view of the trees from the previous picture, these are all fruit trees, apricot, peach, nectarine, and another fig with another grape vine winding through them along a wire fence.

this is the veggie patch just a few weeks after planting, the tall stakes are for tomatoes, behind those on the right that clump of green is a zucchini (courgette), the short greens in the front left are bush beans.

blacked out family members by a rampant pumpkin vine, the feathery green in the front right are carrots and I don't remember what the bits of green in the straw were. Mid right of the photo, just caught on camera is sweetcorn, the only time I was able to grow enough to feed us.

Here we are in another different yard, this one had a much smaller veggie patch, but it also had the best peach tree ever! That's it right behind J practising his basketball. The peaches on that tree were HUGE, softball sized, and golden and so sweet and juicy, straight off the tree, the juice would run down your chin when you bit in. I still wish I'd taken a branch and tried to grow it. I believe it was a heritage tree called Golden Queen. 

Going back even further, this is a decorated van from the Norwood Christmas Parade, the Santa and gift sack painting was done by my ex-the-first,

on the other side, another painting, this one of Santa relaxing in his big chair while Mrs Santa brings him a plate of cookies.

Back To The Future ha Ha, the girls were very happy to get watches as Christmas gifts from "no-one", they always like to see here and play with it, she is the only one of us now to still wear a watch, this is Ana,

here is Gen, oh so casually checking the time, just as "no-one" does.

"no-one" also gave them toddler skateboards and ALL the safety equipment

getting a little instruction from Dad, although Uncle M was the skateboarder, Uncle J too. 

Gen: "think I'll take a break, playing is such hard work."