Sunday Selections #728

 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.

Elephant's Child is taking a break for the month of February.

Beginning again with my road trip to the mid north:

we breezed through Red Hill without stopping, it's such a tiny place

R slowed enough that I could take this photo, it's a statue but looks so real

Next stop was Port Pirie, our destination

where we met up with our older sister J, she's the one in the dress, I don't wear dresses. 

I think it is very unfair that her hair is still so much darker with only a little grey while mine is almost completely grey now. We stayed and chatted for quite a bit longer than usual, J was much happier on this visit than in previous years. On our last visit we'd learned she was worried about dying soon, as our parents had both died in their 70s, but we reassured her that both parents were heavy smokers and both had cancers, while J has none and doesn't smoke. None of us smoke. I think we put her mind at ease, because the change from that visit to this one was huge.

On our way back to Adelaide we saw these model Kangaroos i a smalltown where we stopped to eat and R planned to fill up the tank, but forgot so after we'd left and gone a fair distance he realised the tank was quite low but we were too far to turn back, so he reduced speed to use less petrol and we limped along wondering how far it was to the next small town and hoped it wuld have a filling station. It didn't so on we went even slower as cars and trucks zoomed past and eventually came to a tiny town quite close to Adelaide where R filled the car while I took a couple of photos.

a rather magnificent old chandelier which looked very heavy 

and some pretty stained glass windows above a doorway to a shop of some kind.

We were very glad to finally get home, but R was running a bit late after all the slow crawling and had to drop me at home while he headed to the airport to hand over the car and catch his plane back to Perth.

want to see the twins? Of course you do.

they have new drawing toys, sitting in front of a makeshift tent while a fan blows to cool them

Ana said she drew snakes.

They were fascinated watching daddy J make fresh pasta for dinner

and later Gen took her purple pillow and climbed into Ana's bed to sleep with her. Sometimes they pull blankets and pillows onto the floor between the beds and sleep together there.

Here is the moon (taken by "no-one") peeping through clouds early on Monday morning (17th), my mum's birthday and if she was alive still mum would be 99 now.