Sunday Selections #530

 

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.

 

Huge thanks to Cie who gave me this wonderful Sunday Selections image.

 

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 not so much, I am going with snippets from the last few weeks.

One block in our city has benefited from the generosity of the executives of the Canberra Airport and has recently acquired three new sculptures.

The first was this one.

 Then this one.

 

And now the third one has been added.  It is a much more abstract design.  Please forgive me but for the moment I have no details about the sculpture's name or its artist.

This remarkably sinuous statue moves in the wind.  On my first photo I was so amazed I forgot to take a video.  When I went back a few weeks later there was no wind when I arrived in the early morning.  And then I got lucky.  On my return trip the wind had picked up AND my bus stopped at a traffic light beside the statue, so I have included a very short video (less than thirty seconds) of it drifting in the sky.

 

My next photos are of a sight I saw at home which worries me.  Most of you are well aware that I delight in our birds.  One morning a corella appeared what I can only describe as a 'cone of shame'. 

I have no idea how it became wedged in this piece of discarded plastic and did feel shame at our careless ways.  The corella could eat and it could fly but I do hope it managed to remove that cone very quickly.  I have not seen it since.

Now to happier wildlife images. We headed down the lake for a kangaroo fix.  I have often commented that our roos relax really, really well.  I have rarely seen them quite as laid back/lazy as this big boy.

 

As you can see he was completely unperturbed by nearby people and was too tired to even lift his body to eat. Other nearby roos were fairly 'laxed too.
 

I am finishing up in our garden.  Autumn is here.  Frosts, and probably hard frosts, will happen soon.  As always I wonder whether the tree dahlias will flower before a hard frost kills them (watch this space).  In the meantime I am delighting in the very last of our tuberous begonias.  They line the front veranda and always make me smile.

Not quite a frost - but very close...

In other gardening news in our usual unrestrained fashion both of us ordered copious quantities of spring flowering bulbs.  As is also usual we did so without consultation. They have arrived.  For the next few weeks we are going to be very busy indeed planting hundreds of bulbs and hoping for a bright and beautiful spring.

I hope your weeks are filled with joy.