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. There was another super moon on Friday (the last for this year). It was raining here (yay) so I couldn't even see the moon much less photograph it. However, in my usual fashion I went out at first light on Saturday. And delighted in a cloudy dawn.
We are in winter now. A fairly wimpy (and blessedly damp) winter. I know that many of you in the Northern Hemisphere are experiencing unheard of and unprecedented heat. Shudder.
The next few photos from my trip to Antarctica are designed to hopefully make you feel cooler.
Stay cool (or warm) and enjoy the week ahead.
Wowwwwww...hijo de elefante, que belleza ese amanecer..aun en dias nublados las fotografias de los cielos, la luna cuando puede llegar a verse aunque sea un poco, la salida del sol, los cielos...son magnificas..
ReplyDeleteAqui tambien estamos en invierno y hasta ahora no se han sentido aun los frios muy intensos..
Me super encantaron tus fotos de Antartida, no sabía que habias visitado el continente y siii,...en verdad es maravilloso.. Te dejo un abrazo y que tengas un fin de semana esplendido, disfrutable y con muy buena salud.
eli mendez: Thank you. Our winter has been much milder this year. The forecast for the next week or so suggests that the mildness will continue. Sigh. I have been to Antartica, and LOVED it. It was the trip of a lifetime and lived up to my dreams. You too, stay well, happy and healthy.
DeleteYou find and share good medicine Dear
ReplyDeleteCloudia: It is medicine for me too.
DeleteThank you for these! I love everything about your first shots - the clouds, the silhouettes, the fabulous moon - all of it.
ReplyDeleteThe second group is exquisite! I would love to go to Antarctica but will probably have to rely on your photos instead. The penguins are beautiful and the ice shelves breathtaking. I hope we can quickly save both polar caps, for the sake of the earth.
Hugs to you and scritches to the fur beastie.
River Fairchild: It is my pleasure. I am so very grateful that I went to Antarctica. It more than lived up to my dreams. I do hope that we CAN save the polar caps - but worry.
DeleteThank you for the hugs which are reciprocated. Jazz is not in the mood for scritches this morning. I will approach him again a little later.
Beautiful your trip to Antarctica, I love those Chinstrap Penguins, fantastic EC.
ReplyDeleteBob Bushell: I loved them too - and didn't even know they existed till I went to Antarctica.
DeleteCan you believe it, we had a full moon here too! What are the odds?
ReplyDeleteMike: Of course you had a full moon too.
DeleteBut you're on the other side AND upside down!
DeleteMike: We share a moon just the same.
DeleteThat was a magnificent dawn indeed!
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Caterina: It was. Today's had no clouds and was softer - but still lovely.
DeleteI am sitting here in a pool of my own sweat, 93F outside, 80 in my living room, but we have two more days of this ahead. I will find some a/c on Monday, the worst of the heat. Thank you for the lovely ice, EC. You're the best.
ReplyDeleteDJan: I feel for you, and hope the weather breaks. Soon.
DeleteG'day, EC...the only reason I get up at dawn is to do a quick trip to the bathroom and then promptly back to bed again, with my two furry mates nagging at me until I do so! :)
ReplyDeleteI love the cooler weather, and am not in a hurry for summer to arrive. It will get here more than fast enough without any urging from me.
I hope you have a good week ahead...take care. Cuddles to Jazz. :)
Lee: I am with you. I am not looking forward to summer at all and am loving our cooler days and nights. I hope you and the furry overlords have a wonderful week.
DeleteI love your dawn photos, especially that crooked tree in picture #4. Your Antarctica pictures are really cool, and the casually flowing by icebergs remind me of our trip to Alaska in 2005. - We had a very hot weekend, but this weekend it seems the heat is staying further north with incredibly high temperatures in areas that usually don't get that hot.
ReplyDeleteCarola Bartz: I love that tree and look for it at night as well as in the morning. It often has roosting cockatoos in it. Antarctica was amazing and I am so grateful that I took the chance and went. I would love to see Alaska too. I have heard that some areas are experiencing unprecedented heat - and my heart goes out to them.
DeleteLovely moon photos, along with super skies and trees. I would love to have taken moon pic #2!
ReplyDeleteAnd thank you for showing some of your Antarctic photos again - they're so beautiful.
I was going to offer you some of our spare rain, but it sounds as if you don't need it. We have more than enough - a great deal more!
Enjoy your cool weather, and the coming week.
Alexia: We have had plenty of rain this last week. The garden and I loved it (I planted some liliums in beautifully moist soil this morning). Jazz did not.
DeleteI am glad that you enjoyed the Antarctic revisit - thank you.
Love that dawn’s early light and how you captured it. Have a great week, EC.
ReplyDeleteMarie Smith: Thank you - you have a great week too.
DeleteSuch a gorgeous collection of photos! I love the ones with the pink skies. It's really hot here, but at least we are finally getting some much needed rain. Stay nice and warm over there! :)
ReplyDeleteMartha: Those skies are pretty much galah coloured. Galahs are one of our native birds and I often think when I see them that they echo dawn's colours. Enjoy your rain.
DeleteYou went to Antarctica? Cool! Or maybe I should say, Cold! You celebrate your rain and I bemoan mine. At least I've had enough to open The Lake Junebug Resort & Rumpus Room. Penelope is tired or paddling through the water to potty and is still trying to get to France.
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Janie
Janie Junebug: I did go to Antarctica and loved it. It is only open to tourists in summer - so it was cool. Poor Penelope. I wonder what the weather in France is like now.
DeleteThanks for Antarctica and all the penguins.
ReplyDeleteJoanne Noragon: My pleasure. Are you being hit with the heat?
DeleteI did see the big Strawberry full moon and it was magnificent. I didn't bother to take a photo as I was half asleep on my trip to the bathroom in the middle of the night.
ReplyDeleteYour skyscapes are beautiful as always and the photo of Antartica are stunning.
We have been blessed with pleasant temperatures and weather so I can't complaint at all. Everything is growing so fast.
Have a pleasant week.
Hugs, Julia
Julia: I am glad you have having pleasant weather and that your garden in growing well. Lots of work ahead, but lots of pleasure too.
DeleteIt was mostly overcast here, although the moon showed its face for a few minutes, so I have to rely on and admire your incredible moon shots. Muted and moody describes your photos perfectly, but that pink glow in the sky was magnificent. It looked like a strawberry heaven.
ReplyDeleteI'm in awe that you have been to Antarctica, but I guess it's a bit closer for you than it would be for me. I still want to go someday, though. Your photos make my desire even more so. They are cooling, but they also suggest adventure, at least for me. Thank you for sharing them, as well as your great moon shots. Happy Sunday, dear EC.
Bleubeard and Elizabeth: I flew to South America and then took a ship from Argentina to get to Antarctica. It was a long trip and an expensive one and sooooo worth it. It was a lovely dawn wasn't it? I do hope your week is creative and lovely.
DeleteGreat photos
ReplyDeleteR's Rue: Thank you.
DeleteI love the iceberg with the penguins on it, even though it made me shiver. I'm sitting here wanting to turn on the heat but resisting as long as I can. Love the moon shots.
ReplyDeleteRiver: If my iceberg shot made you shiver, hopefully it will cool down some of the people suffering in unseasonable heat in the Northern Hemisphere. I hope you have been able to get warm now.
DeleteThank you for the "cool" pics as it's already hot and humid here and even hotter out west - 110 degrees this afternoon where youngest son lives. Your first two moon pics are lovely. No matter how beautiful the moon, as I rush for my phone to take a picture, all I get is the merest prick of light! I guess I should become less lazy and relearn how to use my real camera!
ReplyDeletemolly: I hate hot and humid and have been looking at some of your temperatures in horror. I hope you can stay cool.
DeleteI struggle to take photos of almost anything with my phone and mostly don't bother. When I do I often capture my fingers. Sigh.
Me gustaron las super lunas y las fotos de la Antártida están geniales . Te mando un beso
ReplyDeleteJ.P.Alexander: Thank you.
DeleteNice to see the trees - didn't go out for the moon, looked out the window and it wasn't clear so left it.
ReplyDeleteIceberg, bbbrrrrr..
Margaret D: We had rain so there was no chance of seeing the moon. I was glad to see it the following morning though.
DeleteCompared to your temperatures it' s winter here and muggy.I love to look at there moon from pour Balcony it's Novell.https://gattinawritercramps.blogspot.com/2021/06/sunday-selection_01407795915.html
ReplyDeleteGattina: We are having temperatures in the low teens C here at a maximum. Which is fine by me. Off to check out your Sunday Selections now.
DeleteChilly here, but the rain is still Elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteMissed the Supermoon.Again!But thank you for sharing yours
dinahmow: I missed the Supermoon too - but caught the (almost) full moon the morning after.
DeleteWhat beautiful shots of the full moon. We had one too, but I forgot to look!
ReplyDeletePenguins and ice all beautiful, but I like it hot, our hot yesterday was perfect, a bit over 20 degrees, small passing clouds and a gentle breeze.
Charlotte (MotherOwl): If our summers were those temperatures I wouldn't hate it as much as I do. We lurch into the 40s too often, as many are already on your side of the world.
DeleteVorrei essere con quel Pinguino.
ReplyDeleteBuon fine settimana.
Giancarlo: I would love to visit the penguins again too. So much.
DeleteI might not be able to survive the cold weather there.
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Penghuni 60: Welcome. It is hot weather which causes me problems. I really, really loved Antarctica.
DeleteI don't believe all that ice and the penguins. It's so hot here, it's hard to imagine that someone somewhere must have winter.
ReplyDeleteOlga Godim: I am so sorry to learn that you are one of the ones suffering in the heat. Believe me, it is winter here, and the ice and the penguins are real (though I took the photos in an Antarctic summer).
DeleteExpecting 42 degrees C here Sunday and Monday. It's never been that warm before in recorded history. We're lucky--- we have AC. Love these pictures!!
ReplyDeleteBill: 42???? Shudder. Stay inside and stay cool.
DeleteYay for rain, I love it, too, especially in summer!
ReplyDeleteGreat pics of the moon.
Hm, well, heat. I am Aussie proofed and Germany is way too cold for me (but we´re too old to be allowed to get to Australia).
Never Antarctica - never, brrrr!!!! Ohhhhh, but the guys are cute!
To a great Sunday/week!
Iris Flavia: We very rarely have enough rain and I always welcome it. Jazz does not. Antarctica is only open to tourists in summer. I suspect that it is warmer than a German winter (and very, very beautiful).
DeleteThanks for get well wishes, it sure hit me like a sixer now for the second one in 12 weeks....ugh....your post brightens me up at all times x.
ReplyDeleteaussie aNNie: I hope the second one is much, much better for you. I have my second next weekend. And thank you.
DeleteDear EC
ReplyDeleteBeautiful dawn photos - the pinks and silvery greys in particular.
Have a good week.
Best wishes
Ellie
Ellie Foster: It was a beautiful dawn. Cloudy, but truly lovely. I hope your week is wonderful too.
DeleteIf there is one corner of the world I will never get to and would really, really like to it is Antarctica with its incredible concentrations of wildlife, especially penguins. Sadly, their future looks grim in the face of global warming and the loss of ice.
ReplyDeleteDavid M. Gascoigne: I spent three weeks in Antarctica. I treasure every memory. It really is an incredible place and my heart aches at the thought of its loss.
DeleteLove your dawn moon photos! Antarctica looks so fragile.
ReplyDeleteDragonquillca: Antarctica IS fragile, and in danger. I am endlessly grateful to have seen it.
DeleteWhat a great set of photos. I would love to go to Antarctica - it is the only continent that I haven't visited.
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Plastic Mancunian: I am sure that you would love Antarctica - and hope that you get the chance to see it. I have hundreds and hundreds of photos from my visit.
Deleteluckily we're not too cold and not too hot, but those who are scorched would welcome a dip in the water of your trip I am sure, well maybe for a minute. Several folks here got some spectacular photos of the moon much like yours
ReplyDeleteLinda Starr: I swam at Antarctica. Twice. It was certainly brisk. But refreshing.
DeleteI’ve recently moved to Florida to be near my daughter, her husband and grandkids. I miss New Mexico but am adjusting to the fertile greenery of the land here. I appreciate your photos of the open skies. There’s a different kind of beauty here. One can peak at the sky beyond the trees’ “obstruction”.
ReplyDeleteYour trip to Antarctica must have been exciting.
Have a wonderful week.
Myrna R.: You have moved? I do hope that you are adjusting well, and can find lots of beauty in your new location (including the beauty of family).
DeleteI always adore your sky photos. Hope you have a wonderful and safe week my friend.
ReplyDeleteMason Canyon: As you know I also adore skyscapes. And post them often. Thank you - and the same to you and yours.
DeleteAntarctica! How fabulous. I love the minimalist shots of the tree on the hill, really beautiful.
ReplyDeleteKim: Antarctica WAS fabulous. Really fabulous. I look to those trees on the hill every morning and was surprised to see when I put the photos on the PC that morning other people were also enjoying the beauty. It was a first for me, I cannot remember ever seeing people there in the early morning before.
DeleteAwesome photos of Antarctica! I love your pictures of the dawn in Australia!
ReplyDeletegigi-hawaii: Thank you. Dawn is one of my favourite times of day.
DeleteAll gorgeous, thanks. Is Australia going into another lockdown?
ReplyDeletee: Some States have already imposed partial lockdowns and we watch and wait. Internal borders have slammed shut. So far no deaths, for which we are grateful.
DeleteFabulosa luna en un bello cielo.
ReplyDeleteLas últimas fotos de tu reportaje son muy refrescantes, contrastan bastante con el riguroso calor que tenemos ahora aquí.
Feliz domingo.
VENTANA DE FOTO: Thank you. I am so glad that you found the photos from Antarctica refreshing. I loathe extreme heat and my heart goes out to you. Stay as cool as you can.
DeleteI can picture myself, in the second photo from last, on my reclining lawn chair, in shorts and sunglasses, reading, while bobbing around on an iceberg. I love the thought. THANK YOU for giving me a happy place to go, in our severe heat.
ReplyDeleteStrayer: I am so glad that you could picture yourself on the iceberg - and perhaps taking a brief dip. I hope your heat breaks. Soon.
DeleteI love the pictures. Penguins are so cute. Cold weather would be nice right now.
ReplyDeleteMary Kirkland: Our cool weather is very nice. I hope your heat breaks.
DeleteThat first iceberg picture...I thought there were people on it and I was thinking I would never go up on that small iceberg...ok, then I saw it was penguins.
ReplyDeleteJ C: I spent quite a lot of happy time watching those penguins. They seemed to be having a wonderful time sliding down into the water, climbing up again and repeating the process. I am smiling now remembering...
DeleteThe photos of the moon are marvelous
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Sakuranko: Thank you.
DeleteSuch lovely lighting in these photos, it really sets the mood. Your moon shots are amazing as ever. Thanks we're staying cool, and finally got some rain for our horribly dry grass! Take care enjoy your week.
ReplyDelete21 Wits: I am glad that you have cool temperatures and rain. Long may it continue.
DeleteI always enjoy seeing your sky photographs, and once again you've given us a very nice collection here.
ReplyDeleteFabulous pictures of Antarctica too.
Enjoy these last days of June.
All the best Jan
Lowcarb team member ~Jan: Where has the year gone? And thank you.
DeleteSuch a beautiful morning, and Antarctica is lovely in its own way.
ReplyDeleteSorry i'm so late, work has kept me hopping and i cannot catch up on the computer.
My selections are over here.
messymimi: You are very welcome whenever you find the time to come by. Look after yourself please - and I thoroughly enjoyed your Sunday Selections.
DeleteI would love to go to Antarctica, but your photos are the closest I will get there. Love the moon shots and the lone tree pics. Penguins are some of my fav critters.
ReplyDeleteGlenda Beall: Antartica was wonderful. I am so glad that I ignored the critics and went.
DeleteWhat a lovely lot of very subtly beautiful photos! The sillouetted trees and leaves are wonderful and who wouldn't love antarctica?
ReplyDeleteHave a wonderful week!
kylie: I am glad that you enjoyed my muted, and magical dawn. It was chilly but I was glad to be out in it.
DeleteYour super moons are fantastic as usual, mine super moon is like a duck's egg. Antartica is on my bucket list but I don't think I will ever make it there as 14 C is about the lowest limit I can take for the cold. But your photos took me there, TQ. I liked the first one with the penguins on the blue ice. I like the blue hue on the ice landscapes. Is it really blue?
ReplyDeletekestrel: When I went to Antarctica I don't think it got much lower than 14 - except when I went swimming. If you get the chance, rug up and grow. It is incredibly beautiful and shrinking.
DeleteI love the progression of the moon in those early shots! First it was so brilliant it almost blotted out the branches in the foreground. Later, it almost waved goodbye in the morning sky. Delightfully you!
ReplyDeleteJohn Wiswell: You always say the nicest things.
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DeleteHot pics from Antarctica.
ReplyDeleteSean Jeating: I adored Antarctica and have hundreds more photos.
DeleteBeautiful pictures! Especially moon, I thought it looked slightly different from the versions I have seen. Penguins can be so sweet!
ReplyDeleteThe Purple Assassin: Thank you. I struggle to capture photos of the moon that I am happy with and have learned that I need trees or clouds to set it off. Penguins are birds of infinite charm I think.
DeleteMy favorite pictures are always of the moon shining behind the tree limbs.
ReplyDeleteGranny Annie: Or clouds. Those settings give both subjects extra depth.
DeleteBuon inizio settimana.
ReplyDeleteGiancarlo: So far, so good. I hope your week is lovely.
DeleteLovely moon. Beautiful pictures of Antarctica, but they didn’t make me feel better in the heat. The penguin is cute. You was happy to able to see it.
ReplyDeleteorvokki: I am sorry that Antarctica photos didn't cool you down. I was very lucky indeed to see lots of penguins - including some that I didn't know existed.
DeleteWhat beautiful skies and clouds! I was imagining the beautiful cool dampness while our air conditioner still runs at 10 PM. Only one more day of 40C... or so the forecast promises us. Time will tell, but in the meantime your photos are lovely!
ReplyDeleteDiane Henders: I do hope that the forecasters are telling the truth and that you and your garden survive the heat. 40C is obscene isn't it?
DeleteIt is, but we're lucky to have air conditioning. 67 people died in Vancouver yesterday because of the heat; and there are likely that many deaths again today. This heat is deadly for elderly people who don't have air conditioning in their homes.
DeleteDiane Henders: I saw that in our news, and my heart aches. When, oh when will politicians the world over take climate change seriously. And yes, I include my own political leaders.
DeleteThe super moon was super enough for me to get a good photo for the first time with my little camera - on the 105th anniversary of my mother's birth. Precious penguin!
ReplyDeleteGail M Baugniet -Author: Perfect timing. A gift from your mama? I adore penguins and never tired of them.
Deletewow perfect sky....it's so purple and soft
ReplyDeletei really love the position about the moon :)
Gustyanita Pratiwi: Thank you. It was a beautiful soft dawn, followed by a soft day.
DeleteOh WOW, thank you so much for these fantastic photos!
ReplyDeleteHow amazing to see the super moon!!
We had heavy cloud, so didn't even have a glimpse of it here.🙄
Overcast and muggy here today, but still no sun.😝
I really like those photos of Antarctica and the penguins too. Almost like a different world, isn't it?😊😊
Have a good day, my dear friend!
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Ygraine: Cloud cover prevented me from seeing the super moon too - but the following morning it was almost full still - and beautiful.
DeleteHot and muggy where you are? Shudder. And yes, Antarctica was a different world. A very beautiful world. Huge hugs and healing wishes are flowing your way.
Hi EC - wonderful you had the opportunity to get to see Antarctica ... especially as you so love the cold!! I think I was born in the right place - a happy middle ... not too hot, nor too cold - usually!
ReplyDeleteWonderful photos - it's raining here, but it's the tennis season - what else does one expect! Cheers - Hilary
Hilary Melton-Butcher: We tend to get heat waves in tennis season - I would prefer your rain. Even the people who didn't like the cold enjoyed Antarctica, though one poor woman fainted because she had piled on too many layers...
DeleteI am happy you got your rain as I know it was sorely needed. Your moon photos are enjoyable, as are the ones from your trip to the Antarctic. Those are delightful, as are the incredibly cute chinstrap(?) penguins. It is 93 degrees F. today here in northern Virginia (58-59 C. according to the conversion chart I just read.) I don’t do well in heat - I am a cold weather person also. And yet there are people further west who have it more horrendous, so I am not moaning by any means, and hoping that they can stay cool.
ReplyDeleteDeniseinVA: 93 is still too hot, and I hope you were able to stay cool. I believe that some of the worst of the heat has passed, and I hope it stays gone. That was indeed a chin-strap penguin. A little cutie wasn't it?
DeleteYou went to Antartica?!?!?! I think that would be such an amazing trip. Thank you for sharing your pictures.
ReplyDeletemail4rosey: I did go to Antarctica and it WAS an amazing trip. I hug the memories very tightly to myself.
DeletePenguins!! How amazing that you went to Antarctica.
ReplyDeleteLove that pinkish lilac tinge in the sky.
Hena Tayeb: Antarctica was heaven on a stick. All of it.
DeleteWow! You are right - the moonshots are magnificent, and that shade of dawn pink is ethereal. And so are the Antarctic photos. Thank you for both the sky- and icescapes and showing me glimpses of places that I cannot travel to.
ReplyDeleteNilanjana Bose: It wasn't a dramatic dawn (we rarely do those) but it was very, very beautiful. I loved it. As I did Antarctica.
DeleteWe could use some of that ice here right now. It's as hot as summer out there! ☺️
ReplyDeleteSandi: Too many places are facing early and unprecedented heat. I hope you are safe.
DeleteThose skies are beautiful, and I love the pictures of your trip to Antarctica. An amazing adventure.
ReplyDeletejenny_o: Thank you - and thank you for going back through earlier posts.
DeleteThis is all so beautiful!! Loving your moon photos! Your pictures from Antarctica are breath taking!!! Wow EC! Thanks for sharing! Big Hugs!
ReplyDeleteMagic Love Crow: I will always try and take photos of a full moon. And often fail, but keep trying. Antarctica was heaven on a stick. Huge hugs to you.
DeleteI can almost smell the eucalyptus in the full moon photos!! Big, happy smiles.
ReplyDeleteneena maiya (guyana gyal): It is a bit too cool to smell it in the air are the moment - but bruised leaves still give off that wonderful smell.
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