Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Saturday 16 February 2013

Sunday Selections #108

Sunday Selections was originally brought to us by Kim, of Frogpondsrock, as an ongoing meme where participants could post previously unused photos languishing in their files. 

The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life.  The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River.

Like River I generally run with a theme. Today it is not so much a theme as a miscellany of photos I took around the home this week.













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  1. The bottom one...a stray meteor? ;-)Beautiful colours!

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    1. dinahmow: An illuminated jet trail. As soon as I spotted it from out a window I had to run outside with the camera. A lovely time of day.

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  2. Egg plant and melon! Yum! That looks like a stink bug. Not good.

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    1. Joanne Noragon: The bug is a preying mantis - an eater of things like aphids. A good bug. It was in our bathroom so I took its photo and carefully carried it outside.

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  3. You could make a pretty veggy soup all except for the green thingy. Love your sky shot!

    Fingers and toes are crossed hoping all is well with the two of you.

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    1. Pam:): I plan on turning the baby eggplant into a stirfry of some description.

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  4. I'll take the flowers, the fruit and the sky. You can keep the bug! Hope all is well, or at least improving, in your corner..

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    1. Molly: I like all of the things I photographed this week - bug included. We are having in there.

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  5. Dear EC, the photographs of the eggplant and the melon just won me over to serenity and beauty. Thank you. And remember----take care of both of you! Peace.

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    1. Dee: It is the first time I have grown eggplant - and I was so excited to see the little beauties nestling under the leaves. There are five or six of them now. Wonderful.

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  6. Oooh, very envious of all the lovely things growing in your garden. Hurry up, spring!

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    1. Ms. CrankyPants: And here I am chanting hurry up Autumn. Though the garden gives me solace all year round.

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  7. I'm sitting here with my napkin tied around my neck waiting for a slice of that delicious looking melon...and for a plate of ratatouille or breadcrumb-Parmesan crumbed eggplant drizzled with garlic butter! ;)

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    1. Lee: Garlic butter can make almost any dish a treat can't it?

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  8. Beautiful, and some mysterious... like the last one. :-)

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  9. wow, that's a good batch!



    ALOHA from Honolulu
    Comfort Spiral
    ~ > < } } ( ° > <3

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  10. Is that an oak leaf geranium I see there? And a baby watermelon? I love your garden.

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    1. River: Thank you. The melon is coming on nicely. The oak leaf geranium is part of a gooseberry bush - which hasn't fruited.

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  11. Such a delicious and pleasing variety. And the purples of the sky of the bottom one with the jet trail...! It's all lovely. (Although, curmudgeon I am, I keep thinking of the hothouse-like temperatures that made it all possible!)

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    1. Paper Chipmunk (aka Ellen): The heat is finally easing off. And I am ignoring the weather boffins who are telling me that more is coming my way.

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    2. I sincerely hope more does not come your way!

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    3. Paper Chipmunk (aka Ellen): You and me both.

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  12. What lovely shots - a balm to my eyes. And a wonderful purple sky too!

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  13. Aubergines and squash, fabulous. You like in the garden of eden it alwys seems to me, minus the snake and that bloke/woman god. Beautiful, beautiful pictures. Thanks for that. What I wouldn't give to lie down on the grass for a while in your garden. Clicking my fingers for a herbal tea, and then getting it chucked in my face for being so cheeky. x

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    1. All Consuming: Getting the herbal tea chucked in your face assumes that I have made it for you in the first place. Though I probably would, and one for me and we could lie in the garden and laugh at all the things we shouldn't.

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  14. Lovely collection and amazing lavender sky

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  15. Beautiful and peaceful photos to bring a smile to my face. Thank you for that. I hope that some peacefulness reins in your house about now. Hugs.

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    1. Laura Eno: Thank you. It is swings and roundabouts here at the moment. Peace is not reigning yet. Yet. It will come again.

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  16. Fun to see the pretty veggies among your pretty flowers! I've never grown eggplant before, but I'd be turning those lovely specimens into baba ganouj (I loooove that stuff!) Nice to see a critter helping your garden as well!

    That sky is beautiful - and it doesn't look like a scorching weather sky. Can we assume your temperatures are modifying somewhat? Hope so!

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    1. Laloofah: Thank you for the idea. I also love baba ganouj. I must hunt out a recipe. I hadn't grown eggplant before, but was surprised at how easy it was. I will do it again. We are also growing peanuts this year as an experiment. I hope they also succeed.

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  17. Beautiful all! the first "flower" looks like an okra bloom?

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    1. Cindi Summerlin: Thank you. The first flower is a calla lily. I planted plenty again this year but it has been a bit dry for most of them to take off. Next year perhaps.

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  18. I am glad you find some time to capture some lovely things amidst the ongoing medical mayhem, which I have been following with many a sigh.

    Good wishes to you both.

    Andrew

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    1. Don QuiScottie: Thank you. There is assuredly beauty to be found still - which I find comforting.

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  19. Is that a bug that you're familiar with? I've never seen one like it.

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    1. Snowbrush: Preying mantises are in every garden over here. This one was in my bathroom - where it didn't belong, and has been moved outside. They have a little in common with spiders in that if the males are not quick the female will capture him and devour him after mating. While eating they hold their prey in their long front legs - holding them in front of their face - almost in a position of prayer. For that reason some people know them as praying mantises.

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    2. I didn't blow it up, so I didn't recognize it as a preying mantis. You know, I think that might be praying mantis.

      I grew up with them, but I don't recall seeing one during the entire 25 years that I've been in Oregon. There are many more kinds of insects in the Southern U.S.

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    3. Snowbrush: You were right, I am wrong. It is a praying mantis. I wonder whether they don't have any in Oregon, or whether they are less common.

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  20. Great shots. Love the cala lily!

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    1. Karen: Thank you. I love it too and it gives welcome colour to a garden which is largely denuded of colour at the moment. Except of course for the many, many pots of begonias on the front veranda.

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  21. Hah, eggplant. Yuuummmm - I'm actually making ratatouille tonight!

    Love bugs - fascinated by them. A very vital part of the eco-system. Without them, life would be, well, lifeless.
    I'm glad you included him, he's a beautiful mantis :)

    Your garden is diversely beautiful... at all stages, in all seasons.

    And that pic of the jet trail, wow! Right place, right time.

    Did you see the images of the meteor showers on TV? Awesome.
    We are ever at the mercy of the Universe.

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    1. Vicki: I did see some of the images of the meteor shower. Amazing.
      I too am fascinated by bugs, though would generally prefer they stay outside.

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  22. I didn't eat eggplant for the first 30 years of my life. What a name! But I now enjoy it and raise it in my garden every year.

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    1. Ron Dudley: Eggplant (like pumpkin) was something my father didn't like so it simply wasn't served at home. Now? I love them both.

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  23. Gorgeous photos!!!! Thank you so much for sharing! I love the colored calla lilies... we only had white ones growing up, so nice to see different ones!! And I love the insects too... there is a wheel of insects at the local (very, very tiny) nature center, basically lots of moths and such pinned, and you can turn the wheel around and look at them. Someone has also stuck a little matchbox VW bug on the display (ha ha). THANK YOU!!!

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    1. Nicky HW: I love the VW bug at the nature centre. A sense of silliness is always a gift.

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  24. That third is a gorgeous orbit. Looks beautiful enough to bite.

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    1. John Wiswell: I was testing the melon today - it is surprisingly heavy for its size which I think is a good omen. Soon.

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  25. Just beautiful. I love calla lilies.

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  26. What a wonderful garden you have to be sure. Loved that melon. Our poor old garden is battling through the summer heat and neither of us seems to have the energy to do much wit it. Just great to share yours so thank you for these pics. xx

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    1. Mimsie: Thank you. Our hot weather, while toxic, has been less severe than yours. Our garden is suffering, but would have been burnt to a crisp in your temperatures. And I don't blame you for not having the energy to do anything in the temperatures you have been enduring.

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  27. Is that a watermelon? And I'd love to join in the herbal tea party in the grass. Please.

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    1. Mrs Catch: It is a mini water melon - and you would be more than welcome to join us for afternoon tea.

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  28. Those eggplants remind me of drop earrings.

    Hope the SH is healing nicely?????

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    1. Kath Lockett: You are right - they do look like drop earrings. No wonder I love them.

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  29. Thanks again for sharing your garden with us. Loved all the pics, but esp. the first one.

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    1. Susan Kane: Thank you - as you know the garden is one of my obsessions.

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  30. Beautiful photos as uual. Many thanks.

    Greetings from London.

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  31. Such beauty!.....except for that green monster of a bug!
    You're having summer while I have winter, You say tomato and I say to-MA-to!:)
    Right now I'm looking out my window watching our ever changing "wintry mix" as the weather people call it. Snow and sleet...and later we're supposed to also get freezing rain. I'm so glad I can stay in and just watch! Have a wonderful day/evening!!

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    1. BECKY: Oooh snow and sleet. Wow. And the monster bug was a sweetie - really.

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  32. OR...does that song go: I say tomato and YOU say to-MA-to?!

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    1. BECKY: One or the other - it still tastes as good though.

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  33. S,
    the gorgeous green bug looks like a lime/green tie!

    Xxx

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    1. My Inner Chick: I am glad that you were able to appreciate the beauty of my friend the bug.

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  34. My dear friend,

    And the wonders of natured captured just outside your home, are a pleasing, thoughtful distraction. For that, you know I'm grateful.

    In peace and hope,

    Gary :)

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    1. klahanie: And thank you. Peace and hope right back to you.

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  35. I'm glad to see your recent comment replies, because it's been so quiet from your corner of the world I was growing concerned. Hope things are improving for you and the SP!

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    1. Laloofah: Thank you so much. Things are very, very slowly starting to improve, but I am still busy, busy, busy.

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  36. Beautiful flowers and sky. Scary bugs. If you feel that way about bugs. I do. Happy weekend to you.

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    1. Barb: Not all bugs. For some reason I have problems with millipedes and centipedes - but ladybugs and praying mantises are fine.
      And a happy weekend to you too.

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