Sunday Selections # 790

 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.

In memory of Elephant's Child, the meme is now continued by myself and 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.

Starting this week with a "wish"

who remembers cupping one of these in the palm of your hand, making a wish and then blowing it away? If it flew up and away your wish was supposed to come true.

I dug around in the pot where I had planted pieces of a sprouting potato and came up with these tiny morsels, the coffee mug is for size reference. Did I already show this recently? 

I bought a couple of "Heirloom" tomatoes for sandwiches recently at our local "Foodland" supermarket

they are always delicious and this one was no exception. I saved the seeds and there is no guarantee they will grow, but I will plant them anyway.

my rhubarb plant continues to survive, though it stays small in its pot, I dare not plant it out in the garden, the "critters" will eat it and it will be gone.

the jades are producing flower buds now for the autumn show

hundreds of buds on every bush 😀

I forgot to rotate this picture but you can all just turn your screens sideways, right? ha Ha.This is a piece of a philodendron which I "stole" from a plant in a pot at the edge of my garden. I am still convinced that plant is the one someone stole from a pot in my garden when they were unable to lift the whole pot, they left it tilted and ripped out the plant instead. It was then given to a near neighbour as a gift. 

this is the original plant in near neighbours pot, thriving and not even showing a gap where I cut off a piece for myself. The red/brown "fence" is the edge/corner of my closed-in back porch.

My Hoya is still looking well, in spite of neglect, climbing up into the tree and down into the monsteras

a bit blurry, but this is one of the flowering branches of the hoya, currently covered in tiny yellow aphids or whatever those bugs are. Every flowering branch has these and I wipe them off every time, squishing them between thmb and fingers,  forgetting that I have eco-pest-oil spray in the cupboard. 

one of the monstera leaves has turned bright yellow as it dies, the brown edges are sunburn.

Moving on..

"no-one" and bestie with bestie's two young sons, went to Hahndorf in the hills area to visit "Ham-Dorf" in the building that used to make and sell cheeses of all varieties. It failed during the Covid hoo-ha and the building was for sale for quite some time, but now it is owned by people who have long haired guinea pigs.

Text on the poster reads "Dorf means village in German. Meerschweinchen means Guinea Pig, Hence we named our village Ham+Dorf.

The upstairs is still a cafe and the HamDorf village is in the downstairs section with little houses and barns, 

on all sides, roads too and trees...

it is all so well made, so clever

I plan on visiting it myself one day, in this picture you can see three guinea pigs, two are at the back end of that turned up carpet

here is one taking a nap on a mini couch. After paying an entrance fee visitors are allowed to hold the guinea pigs for a short time.

and a surprise for me, "no-one" bought me a little rubber guinea pig eating some cheese. I'm not sure what that vertical line is, possibly light reflection, it has turned up in several photos lately.

Finishing up today with this month's calendar page:

The main page

and the drawings.