Sunday selections # 796

 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.

 see this mess of cigarette butts and stinky ashes? guess where it was dumped? In the recycle bin!! it really is useless trying to educate some people, to them a bin is a bin and they will dump what they like in whichever bin is handy.

the beehive in a tree a couple of blocks away from my home used to be functioning, crammed with bees all happily doing what bees do best and one day I saw someone had stapled flyscreen wire over the opening 😢 A few days later someone else had shoved a folded empty toilet roll core and jammed it in near the top so the bees could still find a way in and out. But that has been removed and more staples added.

The bees are gone 😢😢

I am not sure where I got this picture, but I do love the gates.

brilliant red autumn leaves twining along a brush fence

I found this book in a community library on my way to the shops, I hope it will help me learn to decipher cryptic clues. Some are easy, but others less so and it frustrates the dickens out of me. 

this tree, a block away, is easily 10 metres wide, with a metre being 39 inches, that makes the tree 32 and a half feet across. I like the size and the open-ness of the branches.

in the same street is this Gingko tree which I thought would be fully golden and dropping leaves by now

as you can see some are still quite green, though some have begun to fall and carpet the footpath.

I was VERY happy to see my favourite mayonnaise back in the store and bought two. They also have my favourite dill cucumbers back in stock, Fehlbergs brand, but I seem to have lost that photo. I'll take another.

another pretty gate, how often do you see one in this lovely yellow?

raindrops on a plant I don't know the name of

and a silver Seneca (?) growing strongly amongst all the greenery.

a nice new pile of dirt has been delivered to the empty block

in my own garden the hanging basket of Swedish Ivy, also known by other names by many people, looks to be doing well

but the backside shows where birds and possums have been tearing at the basket to get nesting material. When spring comes around I will ask a friend to help me get it down and repot into a plastic hanging basket. I will leave that material on the ground for them.

I had to take this photo through my screen door, opening it would have seen those four dozen or more mourning doves flying away in a blur. There are a few tiny sparrows in the mix but most get chased off by one of the doves. I am not fond of these birds, but the upstairs neighbour loves them (LOOOOVES them, oh they are sooo beautiful) and throws out oat flakes twice a day. I can't say anything to her because I remember how much I loved to feed the sulphur crested cockatoos until I learned that I was doing them harm and possibly helping to spread the beak-and-feather disease.

My dentist's reception area has a new seasonal display,

wooden apples. I "wooden" want to chomp into one of those!

We're back! There were so many bargains today!

Thank goodness! We were beginning to worry. You were gone so long!

here's a surprise, a baby blue-tongue lizard is living  under the cabinet on my front porch. I put out a mayonnaise lid with water and hoped he could find his own food. He would come out daily for a sunbake but I haven't seen him since the weather turned colder, he's probably hibernating. I hope he survives. I am glad I saw him, because I was planning on repainting that cabinet in some brighter colours and the fumes might have killed him.