Sunday Selections #548

 

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 I am mostly posting photos from home again.  We are still in lockdown and while it will supposedly end next Friday I have my doubts.  Our numbers are relatively low, but too many of them have been in the community while infectious. 

As usual I have been delighting in the sky.

I often refer to our dawns as 'galah' coloured.  I think these photos will show you why.

Of course they weren't the only birds to visit.  I am thrilled to say that most mornings the Turquoise Parrots stop by.  And I am adding a photo of Noisy Miner.  They ARE noisy and are currently harvesting nectar from the last of the camellia blooms.

 

 He/she doesn't look impressed with the photographer though.

 

I did get out one day last week to go into town to do a shift with Lifeline.  Goodness the streets (and the buses) were deserted.  The phone lines were not.

 

Spring  has obviously arrived (though the temperatures over the last few days would dispute that).  The first photos are taken from my walk to the bus stops, and in the town centres where I change buses.

The colour is really starting to pop in our garden too.  We have had a lot of damp grey days lately.  The garden doesn't care.

 

I took these photos from behind the daffodils early one morning and was blown away by how they captured the early light.

 I showed you the ginger interloper last week.  His bigger, older relative (who we know as Big Ginge) is also a regular visitor.  Jazz hates him too.

 

We have tulips in bud, and more emerging every day.

I mentioned last week that we have orchids in bud, but said that I didn't think they would bloom for ages.  I was wrong, and am closely watching the other orchids too.

 The nectar loving birds and insects delight in the many grevilleas in the yard.

Last week one of the regular walkers in the street paid me a lovely compliment and thanked me for the respite and beauty the garden gives her.  She said that it was a highlight of her walks.  She walked on, and I floated inside.

 

I hope your weeks bring you joy too.

Words For Wednesday 25/8/2021

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.

This month the prompts will be here, but are being provided by David M Gascoigne.  This is David's last week providing the prompt and I thank him for testing my grey matter.

This week's prompts are:

This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts, and mixing and matching is encouraged.

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.

This month the prompts will be here, but are being provided by David M Gascoigne.

This week's prompts are:

1. Formidable
2. Reticent
3. Naturalist
4. Hoity-toity
5. Ego
6. Combination

 

And/or

 

1. Exude
2. Strident
3. Copious
4. Salient
5. Temerity
6. Euphemism

Have fun.  Next month the prompts will be provided by Cindi. I look forward to seeing you there.

 

 

 

Sunday Selections #547

 

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 I am posting photos from home again.  We are still in lockdown, and will be for some time I expect.  Our numbers continue to rise and most of them have been in the community for some at least of the time they have been infectious.  However I am pleased to be able to say that the State nearest to us is finally also in complete lockdown.  Hypocrites that they are their Premier and Deputy Premier blamed their statewide lockdown on the numbers coming from my territory (despite the fact that our break has been genomically linked to Sydney the capital of their State) .  We had sixteen new cases on Thursday, they had well over 600.  Yesterday they had 825.  We had eight.

My voluntary work is considered essential so I will (very cautiously) go into town next week.  In the meantime we are firmly at home - which isn't all bad.

Many of you know I am bird obsessed.  Last week a pair of birds new to me came to visit.  Turquoise Parrots!!!!  Their numbers dropped so dramatically last century that they were considered to be extinct in 1915.  Fortunately they are not.  We saw two of them for a few days last week, and four of them came to visit on Friday.  Lots of photos follow.  The male is much more dramatic than the female, but seeing both of them delighted me.  I hope they continue to visit (and that I can get better photographs).

Beautiful aren't they?  While people cannot visit us, they were not our only avian visitors.  Most days we get visits from at least a dozen species of native birds (attracted by seed we supply, apple we supply and nectar giving plants we cultivate).

Some of the other visitors included White-winged Choughs, and Eastern Rosellas.

Aren't we lucky?

The garden continues to give me joy (and a lot of work).

The wattle is coming out more each day.

As is the prickly grevillea beside it.

 More and more spring bulbs are coming into flower - and I have orchids in bud (though it will be quite some time before they open).

The ginger interloper is a regular visitor.  Jazz is not impressed.

And, if that wasn't enough, I have dawn and dusk to look forward to as well.

I hope your week is packed with colour, with beauty and with joy.