Sunday Selections # 813
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.
I bought this Yogo pudding to see if it matched Charlotte's colour of the month
and it almost does
close enough?
bottlebrush trees everywhere are heavy with blossoms right now and zillions of bees too, each tree has a delightful buzzing hum as I walk past
you can see why it got the name bottle brush
each hair-thin stem? stamen? has a golden tip and I wonder now if this is the pollen waiting to be collected.
Let's get back into the time machine again:
this is an old retired tugboat, beached on the bank of the Port River, the photo was taken the same day as last weeks bridge photos.
This is "The Falie" an old sailing ship brought home from somewhere, (I really should research this) and restored
the full length view, compared to modern ships this is almost toy sized.
This one is another tugboat named Yelta, if I remember correctly this is the one that had the seagulls on the canvas deck cover last week.
This time we are definitely back in the future, the now:
gorgeous pelargoniums are blooming now, these are in a small side street off my street
I am almost 100% positive these have grown from small pieces taken from my own pelargoniums which have since died. I never minded people taking pieces, but did get annoyed when entire small bushes were ripped out.
this is how I like my tomatoes, meaty with very little of the juice and seeds that seem to fill modern hard-as-rocks tomatoes. This one is an heritage/heirloom variety and I will plant the few seeds and see what happens.
Cool photos! But damn you, River, now I want chocolate pudding.
ReplyDeleteDebra She Who Seeks; thank you and go get some chocolate pudding right away.
DeleteOh, that pudding looks so "typical", LOL. I always got presented with Tim Tams cause no one believed me I really am not into sweets.
ReplyDeleteThose flowers look wonderful and wee. Tomatoes. Same here. Hard as a rock. Even those from the farmer´s market!
Time-travel. Mostly great!
Iris; presenting "outsiders" with TimTams is almost a rule here, apparently we want the world to know how yummy they are, but I don't like them, even with my sweet tooth they are far too sweet. I try to always by these heritage/heirloom tomatoes from the "other" supermarket, not Woolies or Coles because they don't have them anyway, and sometimes the "other" supermarket doesn't have any either, so I go without. Time travel is easy with the internet.
DeleteHihi, at Innotrans, Berlin (Innovation-Transportation) there was a stand from Sydney with... Tim Tams. In the end we talked about craft beer. Kinda the same, huh? Like Bratwurst and Sauerkraut...
DeleteWhat would you say is typical for your country? As in "for insiders, for real"?
Iris; I really have no idea what is Typical for my country, maybe beer, in South Australia maybe Farmer's Union (brand name) Iced Coffee, which comes in cartons from the fridge section in supermarkets.
DeleteOh, yes, did we love the iced coffee! Well and Jester´s Pies! Can you believe here you get but sweet pies?! Ingo even bought a Pie-maker from Great Britain!
DeleteNo bees flying here I can tell you, especially not today. It's 4 out and feels like -1 with the wind chill. We still have autumn colour though. It's not all gone yet.
ReplyDeleteAnvilcloud; you will have bees again in spring? For me hearing the busy buzzing and seeing them flit about is the best part of spring. I just wish I could catch that with my phone camera. 4 degrees is way too frosty for me.
DeleteIt was nice of you to take one for the team and buy that pudding in the interests of research :-)
ReplyDeleteKathy G; I thought it was a good thing to do, and I got to eat the pudding too 😁
DeleteI think the fact that you bought the pudding definitely entitles you to declare the color "close enough"!
ReplyDeleteSteve Reed; I thought so too, and it was yummy.
DeleteI've never seen a tomato with so much meat and so few seeds. The ship reminds me of the Boston Tea Party ship I saw when I was in Boston way back in the early 80s. The 1980s, of course! Not the 1780s.
ReplyDeleteVal; those tomatoes are the best and actually have some flavour! Can you research and find out of heritage tomatoes are available anywhere near you? Maybe buy seeds and grow some in a pot? But put the pot in a sunny spot where the dogs can't get to it....
DeleteThe beautiful Falie does look like the Boston Tea Party Ship, I guess clippers were similar worldwide back then.
The best callistemons I've come across is at a nearby police station. I should take photos while they are blooming.
ReplyDeleteThe boats are interesting to see.
Not the pudding but I bought yogurt that had nuts in half the container. As I spooned the nuts out into the yoghurt, I thought this isn't a good idea. What would you do if you were out somewhere. When I rinsed the container out, I realised you bend the part with the nuts over and they drop into the yoghurt. I felt dumb.
Andrew; you may have felt dumb momentarily, but now you know, so you learned something that you will never forget. My pudding had tiny choc chips. I always like seeing boats and often wonder if that is because my first long trip was on a ship from Germany to Australia, where I learned to crawl and stand, so got my sea-legs early.
DeletePlease take photos of your bottle brush.
It matches pretty darn good, I'd say.
ReplyDeleteThe Happy Whisk; close enough was good enough, smoky rose is a hard colour to match. Maybe if I had stirred in a drop or two of strawberry syrup....
DeleteNice photos, old and new. The heirloom tomatoes are the best, aren’t they.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; thank you, they are the best tomatoes and I wish I could grow them myself, but the sunny spots in the garden are also the creepy crawly plant eating critters spots, not to mention the birds and rats and possums. So I buy them when I can.
DeleteI do like chocolate pudding.
ReplyDeleteDora; me too, it's a comfort food from childhood. My mum used to stir in some whipped cream sometimes.
DeleteI love sweet cream, sour cream or yoghurt for sweets, poured gently on top of fresh fruit. Yogo pudding is my favourite :)
ReplyDeleteHels; I usually make my own chocolate pudding, but yogo is handy when I want to save time. I eat my fresh fruit plain.
DeleteFantastic photos—I especially love the ones with the ships!
ReplyDeleteThe dessert looks wonderful!! You’ll be doing a great thing; if it really is an heirloom variety, the tomato will grow into an amazing plant.
Katerinas Blog; thank you. The tomato may grow, but more likely won't. I have been here 15 years and everything edible I have tried to grow gets eaten when it is just a few inches high, by insects, rats, birds and possums. Thankfully, the supermarket is just a short walk away.
DeleteGetting lost often leads to unexpected treasures.
ReplyDeleteYour beautiful photos remind me that detours can be the most rewarding part of the journey.
Veronica Lee; I rarely get lost, but often take detours just for fun and to see what might be interesting.
DeleteThe bottlebrush is pretty, love them. The pelargonium, well that is beauty, R.
ReplyDeleteMargaret D; I like the bottlebrush, but my hayfever doesn't, thank goodness the pollen period is short for them. Pelargoniums are one of my favourites.
DeleteExcellent job.I love the ship
ReplyDeleteRuby Rose and the Big Little Angels 3; thank you. I love the ship too.
DeleteBut that tug boat has character!
ReplyDeleteAlex J. Cavanaugh; it is a great little tugboat, thank you. In case you check back, will you be joining us for Words for Wednesday in 2027?
DeleteLovely photos River, I especially like the tugboat and your glorious pudding. Challenging colour to find. Though a friend recently painted her place in a kind of chocolate like that.
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Wisewebwoman; thank you. I don't think I would like my place painted that colout.
DeleteBeautiful photos. ❤️ I love chocolate pudding.
ReplyDeleteLinda's Relaxing Lair; thnak you, I like chocolate pudding too, but usually I make my own.
DeleteNice to think those pelargoniums in the side street are probably grandchildren of your own plants. A cutting is fine, but pulling out a whole bush is something else. The humming bottlebrush trees sound lovely too.
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Diana; I'm glad to see those pelargoniums, since all mine have now died. There were a few people living around these parts that would pull a whole bush, or cut one in half and take that, but they seem to have moved on. The bottle brushes are mostly quiet now, the bees have moved to the white cedar tree with it's pale purple blossoms.
DeleteThat chocolate pudding sure hits the colour, but the tomatoes make me more hungry, for I agree. There's too much juice and seeds in many tomatoes. Do you know their name?
ReplyDeleteBottlebrush trees ... :D What a fitting name and pretty flowers. We have linden trees and they too are hummning when they flower. It's something special.
Your tugbaot is a charmer. The ones I grew up with were businesslike, metal ones. Hard workers, but no way pretty.
Charlotte; I do not know the name of the tomatoes, they are sold in the supermarket as "heirloom" tomatoes. The old tugboat is charming, it could be a cover picture on a book of children's stories, or tales of old men who once lived at sea.
DeleteIt's lovely to hear bees buzzing, and the pelargoniums are just such a glorious colour. The tomatoes are interesting. I hope you have some success with the seeds.
ReplyDeletejabblog; it really is wonderful walking under atree and hearing zillions of bees hard at work. I doubt I'll have success with tomato seeds, but I will put them in a pot anyway and see what happens.
DeleteThe colours of the bottlebrush trees and pelargoniums are lovely.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan