Sunday Selections #724

 

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 more often.

Beginning with a few more pictures from our road trip:

We blew through Dublin in a blink of an eye, slowing just enough to get this photo on the side of a restaurant/grocery/hardware place (I think), it's such a tiny town, but apparently "home of the garfish roll" and other seafood sandwiches and meals.

one of several ruins we passed along the way, most were too far back in the fields to get good shots

and another ruin, completely burnt out but with decent roofing still, possibly added later to keep the rains out.

We arrived in Port Wakefield which is about halfway to Port Pirie and thought we'd stop for coffee and a sandwich

but the cafe was very crowded with a waiting line reaching out the door and all tables occupied, so we just used the facilities and kept going.

on the way to Snowtown we saw the wind turbines, slowly spinning in an unfelt breeze, they spread out across the horizon for many miles.

Coming back to the Chihuly Glass Art:

this is a close-up of the two-tier blue chandelier in the Palm House, I can't imagine making anything so intricately detailed and swirled, the talent is awesome.

my favourite part of the Palm House is the grotto on the western end

particularly if the waterfall is trickling.

This is one that I didn't like so much, but I don't know why. I just took the photo and moved on.

this was my favourite piece so you get close-ups too:

so much colour,

so much 'movement'

I wanted to pick it up and run home with it. Of course it is far too big for my pocket and wouldn't even fit in my tiny garden patch.

Today, the 26th, is Australia Day, so this was in yesterday's newspaper: 

WELL LOOK AT THAT, OUR COAT OF FARMS. 

South Australian farmer, Harry Schuster, mowed an Australian coat of arms into his Freeling paddock. (Freeling is a place)

by George Yankovich:

"For the second year in a row, even the birds can celebrate Australia Day thanks to the work of South Australian farmer Harry Schuster. 

Using a tractor, the 27 year-old engineering graduate mowed a giant Australian coat of arms into his grain paddock off the Thiele Highway near Freeling.

The artwork spans 900m by 600m, and follows a similar stunt in 2024 of a map of Australia, which Mr Schuster said was done "all for a good purpose". 

"Australa Day is important because it's about having another level of community above the local one," he said. 

"It's nothing to do with me, it's something people can pont to an dsay, 'I'm represented by that."

To accomplish it wthout mistakes, Mr Schuster said he punched the design into a GPS monitor and followed the path with his tractor.

Bringing it to life took roughly eight hoursall up, beginning on Thursday night and finishing on Friday, and he likened the process to 'driving in a video game'.

The seventh generation grain farmer planned to spend Sunday go-karting and golfing woth friends, hoping to take his mind off the state's worst grain yield in 15 years.

"My grandfather is in his 90s and said it's cyclical; he went through droughts as well," Mr Schuster said.

"You just have to trust the plan and have faith."