Sunday Selections #758

 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.

Beginning today with a picture I borrowed from Debby:

you know it's going to be a good day when even your coffee is happy to see you.

heart-warming soup on a cold evening, chicken stock with veggies and noodles. Home made of course.

Cookie Bear taking a ride on the dinosaur

Hi-Ho Silver! Away... who remembers that? This is more the Jurassic Park version I guess

he took his little buddy Mr RatHat for a ride. RatHat is a beanie baby and the rat hat can be pulled down to make him a "rat"

I used to keep my lightweight scarves, (big ones with a name I can't remember) hanging on the back of the bedroom door

with assorted clips

to hold them in place

when I wore them, which I admit was very rarely.

Then one day I noticed a few cobwebs, so they all got washed and now live in a drawer all rolled up and tidy.

rose bushes here are putting out new spring growth, this particular one grows to about ten feet and has large deep red blooms with a great fragrance.

new red leaves,

 an unexpected yellow hiding almost out of sight

and another unexpected full blown deep pink.

many of our beaches are closed-for-swimming because of the awful algae bloom so one person built a sand dragon to help cheer up visitors to the sands, it even has flashes of "fire" coming from his nostrils. I took this photo from the TV as I watched the news that night.

this is my lint roller, maybe you can see the thin wispy bits sticking out from the top and sides? As well as all the hair on that particular sticky sheet, this is from one pass across the sheet after Lola gets up and I go to make the bed.

this is the number of sheets I used on that day, pretty standard amount for cleaning cat hair off the sheet and pillowcase.

99% cat hair with maybe one or two of my hairs, once I've done that I make the bed,

so that Lola can run across it and make her sleeping hollow on the pillow again.

this is one of the jigsaws I completed in that short cat free interval between Angel and Lola in 2016

and here is another one. 

finishing today with one more from "no-one"

bejewelled pear blossom on her pear tree after the rain had stopped, she also has apple trees, nectarines, peaches, plums and cherries.