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 was then continued by River at Drifting through life. Sadly she has now stepped aside (though she will join us some weeks), and I have accepted the mantle.
The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent. Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to me. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.
I usually run with a theme. This week? Snippets. Snippets of colour.
I never, ever tire of the sky.
Or the garden. We have had a very, very warm autumn so far. However, the other morning we had a teensy weensy frost, and I was pleased to welcome frost flowers again.
The autumn colours are a joy.
This is a weigela.
The liquid amber (known to the Americans as a sweet gum) is a joy, though the seed pods are truly vicious if one treads on them.
Forgive me, but I am obsessed with the tree dahlias at the moment. Our warm autumn has meant that they are blooming better than I have ever seen them.
See how much taller than the neighbour's carport they are?
And just a few more garden shots now...
I hope your week is bright and beautiful.
The meme was then continued by River at Drifting through life. Sadly she has now stepped aside (though she will join us some weeks), and I have accepted the mantle.
The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent. Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to me. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.
I usually run with a theme. This week? Snippets. Snippets of colour.
I never, ever tire of the sky.
A very nearly full moon.
Or the garden. We have had a very, very warm autumn so far. However, the other morning we had a teensy weensy frost, and I was pleased to welcome frost flowers again.
The autumn colours are a joy.
This is a weigela.
The liquid amber (known to the Americans as a sweet gum) is a joy, though the seed pods are truly vicious if one treads on them.
Forgive me, but I am obsessed with the tree dahlias at the moment. Our warm autumn has meant that they are blooming better than I have ever seen them.
And just a few more garden shots now...
The anenome is for Joanne Noragon. It is the first of the (literally) hundreds which I hope will survive the cockatoos and brighten the garden.
I hope your week is bright and beautiful.
Gorgeous skies and I’ve always loved the moon in all of its phases.
ReplyDeleteI’m sure you’re looking forward to more frost. Almost time for frozen bubbles!
I envy your garden and proliferation of blooms. Always beautiful to see. Thank you for sharing.
River Fairchild: I hope we get 'better' frosts soon. I am definitely looking forward to freezing bubbles (and confirming my mad woman status in the street).
DeleteDear EC
ReplyDeleteBeautiful skies and a stunning moon. Your tree dahlia is very impressive too. I love the changing seasons and colours associated with them.
Have a bright and beautiful week too.
Best wishes
Ellie
Ellie Foster: I am a big fan of changing seasons and glad to live somewhere where we get all four.
DeleteI never tire of sky pictures, either. And I was a little happy to see your frost, because it means we're not far from frozen bubbles, right? Please don't ever apologize for sharing those magnificent dahlias. They are so pretty! :-)
ReplyDeleteDJan: That is two of you who have mentioned frozen bubbles. I do hope it gets cold enough. Soon.
DeleteIt still seems odd to me to contemplate frost in Australia (other than in Tasmania) but your pictures of the plants coated with icing sugar prove it every year,
ReplyDeleteDavid M. Gascoigne: We assuredly do get frosts. And sometimes snow. Tasmania (fortunately) doesn't have it all.
DeleteIt was a beautiful sunrise here this morning. The sun is a bright orange glow. A light aircraft is flying over at the moment.
ReplyDeleteI've just juiced three oranges and one lemon...my coffee is ready and I'm off to settle in for the next couple of hours reading the paper!
I hope your week ahead brings you much joy, EC....and cuddles to Jazz. :)
Lee: I hope to spend some time in the garden. Enjoy your paper reading with your furry overlords.
DeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteI still can't get used to your seasons being opposite ours. I think it's always summer there. :)
Sandi: I am so grateful that our summers do end. So very grateful. I said in an earlier response that I like having four seasons. I do, but summer is my least favourite. By a long way.
DeleteThank you - your post is definitely bright and beautiful! That moon shot is brilliant, and your clouds are too. I've just been for a long walk and there isn't a cloud in the sky; no frosts yet, though.
ReplyDeleteI hope your week is comfortable and peaceful :)
Alexia: I have just spent a couple of hours in the garden. No frost today. I hope your walk was lovely, and that your week is full of joy.
DeleteI was enjoying everything as I scrolled down, and then, there was a little anemone. How lovely. The bulbs did not do well in this new garden.
ReplyDeleteJoanne Noragon: Given that it isn't yet winter that anemone is premature, but there are lots of its relatives poking leaves through the soil.
DeleteI love your lovely photos. I never get tired of looking at the sky, gardens and birds. The frost, I can do without but I love the frost patterns on the windows and on the plants. When Fall comes, I'm glad to put the garden to rest.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your cooler weekend.
Hugs, Julia
I've been working non stop today in the yard trying to repair the flood damage in the gardens.
Julia: I can only imagine the work involved in repairing flood damage. I hope it is going well for you. I spend autumn preparing the garden for spring displays. I might not have to do so much, but I neglect the garden in summer.
DeleteWhat a brilliant moon photo and I love the cloud photos. Corellas seem to love liquidamber seed pods.
ReplyDeleteAndrew: Thank you. I very, very rarely take a photo of the moon I am happy with. I was pleased to get this one. I haven't noticed corellas on these seed pods - I will have to pay more attention.
DeleteColour... colour... I need some colour.
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Caterina: I do understand - and hope it is coming your way.
DeleteSo many pretty sights of autumn! There's a liquid amber/sweet gum tree right across the street from us, i love watching it leaf out on bare branches in spring and turn in the fall.
ReplyDeleteThis week, i did a bit of a variety show also.
messymimi: We have four or five liquid amber trees now, and I love them, whatever the season.
DeleteI am looking forward to your variety show.
I adore your tree dahlia. It is truly spectacular. We have daffodils blooming here, tulips, and hyacinth. I am impatiently waiting for our lilacs to bloom. Spring comes late to Maine *sigh*
ReplyDeletemshatch: I have daffodils poking through the soil - way too early. I worry when I see signs of spring before autumn is here. Like you, each year I am impatient for the lilacs.
DeleteYou are once again relaxing me with your photos. How is it that the frost look as though it was painted on?
ReplyDeleteTake care of yourself.
Rawknrobyn: I am glad that you find my photographs relaxing. The frost does indeed look painted (or sometimes etched) by a master artist.
DeleteI am partial to those tree dahlias. Never saw those before though my mother had some lovely standing dahlias in Ireland. Here they don't winter outdoors but come indoors.
ReplyDeleteLovely shots EC. Sundays are better with your photos in it :D
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Wisewebwoman: What a lovely thing to say. Thank you. My mother didn't know about tree dahlias either, though we always had the other variety. Our winters are mild enough that most things survive outside.
DeleteI love sky pictures! There is just something wonderful in all seasons about the glorious vastness of it. Clouds especially captivate me. I enjoyed all of these pictures, but the sky pictures especially.
ReplyDeleteElizabeth Varadan, Author: I hope that I am never too jaded too marvel at the sky. Mind you as I took photos of the beauty I could see more than one person watching me with very quizzical expressions. Their loss.
DeleteI love your cloudy skies and I'm always envious of anyone who can get a decent photo of the moon. It's always too high in the sky by the time I see it and any photo is just a tiny white dot.
ReplyDeleteI love your frost flowers. I hope with crossed fingers that your anemones survive.
Do tree dahlias come in other colours? a neighbour here has one the same colour as yours.
River: I struggle with moon shots too. So often I fail to get any detail. Tree Dahlias do come in other colours and I am planning to try and track some down for next year. This is I believe the most common one.
DeleteIt's brighter and more beautiful now. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteJ Cosmo Newbery: Thank you. I am glad to hear it.
DeleteOh so beautiful .especially those violet flowers and orange leaf
ReplyDeleteShilpa: Thank you. I do love the garden.
DeleteLovely skies. And that moon! Even up here, I did see the setting moon the other day, which surprised me as we've been having so much rain lately.In fact, I think that's it as it has not rained since Friday.Time to sharpen the scateurs and get cracking...
ReplyDeletedinahmow: We have had cloud, but very little rain. Mind you, the weeds are going gang-busters.
DeleteLooked a bit like a flying saucer in the sunset... A most enjoyable post!
ReplyDeleteBill: It does look like a flying saucer doesn't it? Which I hadn't noticed. Thank you.
DeleteHi EC - gorgeous shots ... the sunsets are over the Downs and so I see the glow above, but not the actual setting sun ... nor the rising one as I'm not facing in the right direction and trees, with adjacent buildings are too near. But am so pleased to be able to know the sun in those settings is 'just over there'!!
ReplyDeleteDahlias are beautiful as too your coming of Autumn/winter photos ... liquid amber - great name for a tree ... and those little anemones always beautiful. Enjoy the lead up and anticipation towards frost bubbles! Cheers Hilary
Hilary Melton-Butcher: Thank you. It is going to have to get a LOT colder before freezing bubbles is a happening thing. In the meantime I will enjoy the hear and now. Isn't liquid amber a wonderful tree name? Its autumnal colours are special too.
DeleteFabulous photos all! I have an interesting one this week, it has its own little story. I also created a graphic for this blog hop, which anyone is welcome to use if they like.
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The Real Cie: Thank you for creating a graphic for us. I will be over to check out your post shortly.
DeleteI'm loving the moon and sky shots. The tree dahlias are spectacular and the frost flowers have a subtle beauty.
ReplyDeleteIs your very last shot an anenome? We used to have those but I called them daisies! The colour is glorious
kylie: Thank you. It is the second to last photo which is the anenome. You are right, the final shot is a daisy. We have lots and I suspect I will buy more. I saw a lovely pink one and a yellow one in a gardening catalogue which I lust after.
DeleteYou always brighten my day, EC. Hope yours is bright too!
ReplyDeleteMarie Smith: Thank you so much. It is a grey day here but we are getting a smidge of very welcome rain so I am smiling.
DeleteThat's a great moon shot.
ReplyDeleteYou had frost and we were in the mid nineties. It's going to be a hot summer here.
Alex J. Cavanaugh: I hope your summer doesn't get too hot. And hope our autumn/winter gets a lot cooler than it is now.
DeleteGorgeous skies!
ReplyDeleteLady Fi: Thank you.
DeleteHow lovely are all the photos of the sky.
ReplyDeleteFlowers and leaves just wonderful
Margaret-whiteangel: Thank you. I am a confirmed cloud/sky watcher.
DeleteWhy is the moon so sharp against that charcoal sky? That's a beautiful shot that I don't know enough about photography to understand.
ReplyDeleteJohn Wiswell: I think the moon photo was luck. Mostly I delete my attempts at capturing the moon. There were stars too, but somehow they disappeared into the background.
DeleteWhat's the name of the last flower? So beautiful...
ReplyDeleteReHiTu: The last flower is a daisy. We have lots and I will get some more.
DeleteWe have daisies only in yellow and white colours. It is so good!
DeleteReHiTu: We have daisies in yellow and pink as well. Beautiful things aren't they?
DeleteGood grief, everything is so pretty. Those sky shots are really beautiful and the flowers are all so pretty.
ReplyDeleteMary Kirkland: Thank you. We live in a beautiful world don't we?
DeleteSky, garden and autumn colors - what a joy!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know the name "sweet gum" for Liquid amber - maybe because I had to learn all the names when I moved here. I love them, their fall colors are stunning, but I agree about the seed pods. My weigelia unfortunately has never done very well and I never had the pleasure to see fall colors on it since it usually starts to lose its leaves during the summer. I'm thinking whether I should transplant it somewhere else, but haven't come up with a good location yet.
Carola Bartz: Our weigelia is mostly in the shade, and almost smothered by banksia rose. I do love it, and may try and clear some more room for it to breathe.
DeleteSuch beautiful and awesome photos. I love the flowers but the sky photos are my favorite. Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
ReplyDeleteMason Canyon: Thank you. It was a busy and productive weekend (in the garden for a change). I hope yours is great too.
DeleteI love the beauty that you share, EC. That moon shot is fantastic. What a lot of different clouds to enjoy. In the third of the sky photos, I keep seeing the dark disk-shaped cloud as a hole in the cloud bank. The tree dahlia blossoms are just gorgeous. And the anemone is amazingly perfect; it hardly looks real. Is it a spring bulb already come to life? Thank you for all of these different looks at nature.
ReplyDeletejenny_o: The clouds that day were particularly spectacular. Every time I looked in a different direction I saw more to wonder at. Needless to say I took many, many photos. Which produced some weird looks from other people at the park we were in.
Deletelol - let 'em look :) They're missing the good stuff!
Deletejenny_o: My thoughts exactly. They didn't know what they were missing. And, in answer to your earlier question the anenome is indeed a spring bulb. The bloom is almost fully out now, before winter arrives.
DeleteLove the sunsets and the flowers.
ReplyDeleteJamie Ghione: Thank you. I do too.
DeleteÉ curioso como um ingrediente tem muito, muito sabor com no rosto de meu pai desempregado agora em portugal. Sim, muitos, muitos desempregados agora, muitas sopas dos pobres tambem. Muita trsiteza em nosso povo tugalandia agora. Que pensam nossas pessoas agora?
ReplyDeletePedro Garcia Marques: I am sorry for your father, and the poor in your country (and indeed world wide).
DeleteI love your photo of the moon and the flowers. Wishing you a good week.
ReplyDeletee: Thank you. A busy one and some stressful periods. Hopefully productive in the end. I hope you and Lukas are doing well.
DeleteThe word "snippets" is a favorite of mine, and I love that you applied it to color.
ReplyDeleteLove,
Janie
Janie Junebug: I really like snippets too. And smidgeon. Not words you come across often now, but both still fall from my lips.
DeleteWhen my daughter was in elementary school she took after-school art lessons. The teacher had various descriptions for amounts of paint, such as a dab and a smidge. My daughter know what each one meant.
DeleteJanie Junebug: My parents used those words and I got them from them. I wonder where they learned them from.
DeleteOh WOW...those sky photos are absolutely breathtaking!!
ReplyDeleteI don't believe I have ever seen anything quite so beautiful.😊😊
I really like the flowers too...and it feels quite odd to be seeing the signs of autumn, when we are in the midst of spring's blossoming here!
Oh thank you so much for posting these...I have really enjoyed!!
Hope you are having a truly magical day!😊😊
All my love and hugs...always ❤❤❤
Ygraine: Many thanks. Many, many thanks. We are moving towards winter, but there are hints of the spring to come. Very early hints.
DeleteI hope your week is packed with colour and joy. Hugs.
Love the moon, and the flowers, so dreamy.
ReplyDeleteBob Bushell: Thank you. That is the best photograph of the moon I have ever taken.
DeleteGorgeous!!!
ReplyDeleteI love sky pics as well - it's such beauty mixed with wonder.
Jemi Fraser: Thank you. Awe and wonder track my days.
DeleteSnippets I always enjoy your snippets of everything around you. From amazing clouds and blue skies to the smallest of beloved critters and autumn moments. Hoping your week in lovely and sunny too.
ReplyDelete21 Wits: Thank you. I am a huge fan of the little things. Which aren't little at all in my head and heart.
DeleteAbsolutely gorgeous sky pictures. I sometimes wish people would look up more - there is so much beauty not only around and beneath us, but above us!
ReplyDeleteYour flowers look very colourful and I did enjoy the Autumnal tints too.
Enjoy these last days of May, the month has simply flown by.
All the best Jan
Lowcarb team member ~Jan: Thank you. Looking up pays dividends doesn't it? Not only the month, but the year is flying past.
DeleteYou always capture the most beautiful photos.
ReplyDeleteFrost on the leaves--you'll have a lovely fall.
Susan Kane: Thank you. Our autumn is nearly over, with only a couple of wimpy frosts. It is cooler today, so perhaps we will get some chilly beauty.
DeleteBeautiful shots.
ReplyDeleteI was in the backyard this morning, looked up and saw a hot air balloon floating by. Thought of you.
Sandra: Any morning with a balloon is always a winner for me. And thank you.
DeleteThere was a sweet gum down the block that spewed those sharp pods all over the street and sidewalk and lawns. He finally cut it down a few months ago. Our weather here still wet and mostly cold, for late spring. No sign of summer here.
ReplyDeleteStrayer: I am always sad to see a tree removed. Someone in our street took out several huge ones recently, and the skyline is diminished. You have no sign of summer, and we have little sign of winter. Sigh. Seasons both of us long for.
Deleteare you sure that’s a weigela? the leaf shape reminds me of a japanese acer.
ReplyDeleteI always forget that it’s spring only in my hemisphere, that is until I read a log from the other side of the globe.
Friko: I did think that it is a wiegela and will check further. Not an acer in that spot, but it could be a volunteer. I love its colour and shapes regardless.
DeleteAhhh, I should wish to experience your autumn someday. Lovely. x
ReplyDeleteBea: I hope you can. I really hope so.
Deleteawwww, beautiful skies
ReplyDeleteAuthor R. Mac Wheeler: Thank you. I think so too.
DeleteBy all the Gods you live in such a beautiful place! X
ReplyDeleteStarshine Twinkletoes: This beauty addict would agree. Hugs.
DeleteYour sky pictures are outstanding and your flowers are lovely in late fall.
ReplyDeleteStarting Over, Accepting Changes - Maybe: Thank you. I am revelling in the garden while longing for winter to arrive.
DeleteGreat photos as usual. The sky is awesome and the flowers beautiful.
ReplyDeleteRasmaSandra: Thank you.
DeleteThey are all lovely! Pretty skies and Autumn leaves, an awesome moon shot and those gorgeous flowers. I can just imagine that seed pod in bare feet but even that is a natural beauty. Great Sunday series again :)
ReplyDeleteDeniseinVA: Those seed pods are vicious - but it is not their fault. Thank you.
DeleteYou make the pictures of the sky look so lovely and inviting, and as always the vibrant flowers truly amaze with their beauty. Sure hope you're feeling well these days. Hugs...RO
ReplyDeleteRO: Many thanks. I have been out this morning photographing yet MORE sky shots. Colour me obssessed.
DeleteApart from a low grade abscess (the dentist's term) under a tooth I am fine. How about you?
Hugs.
Thank you for brightening my week with your magnificent skies and beautiful garden images
ReplyDeleteKim: I am grateful that a photographer of your calibre enjoys my happy snaps.
DeleteI love the way you see beauty everywhere, in things that so many overlook today. Thank you <3
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