Sunday Selections #579

 

 

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.  Last week was difficult, and one day in particular I crassly described as a pustule.  Everything I touched or each task I had to complete was complicated, festered and exploded (sometimes literally and sometimes metaphorically.  Poor Jazz is in the middle of a flare up of his pancreatitis which means he is uncomfortable and unhappy.  And he had a spectacular digestive upset (naturally on a carpeted area).  Which did my nausea no favours.

As usual I turned to nature for comfort and solace.  The first few photos are of a lovely dawn (the day after the worst day of the week).

I liked the watch cockatoo - who shortly after I took his photo came down and demanded breakfast.

Regular readers will be unsurprised to learn that one day towards the end of the week when we had got Jazz comfortable I demanded a roo fix.  So we headed down to the lake.

Sadly we have had some wild weather and there were a number of large trees down.  Most were being cleared up, but some had obviously come down very recently.

I liked seeing some autumnal colour, interspersed with our native (and evergreen) eucalpyts.

The purple swamphen was as interested in us as we were in it.

 

The water in the lake is not blue - that is a reflection of the sky above.

And yes there were kangaroos - totally relaxed and at their ease in a small clump of oaks.  The oaks are an import, but the kangaroos didn't care.

Perhaps as a reflection of our wet summer and autumn (for which I am very grateful) there was plenty of fungi to admire too.

I liked the lichen too - and investigation tells me that a lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species in a mutualistic relationship.

And no, I don't know what types of fungi these are - but enjoyed them anyway.

I hope that if you need solace this week you find it as easily as I did.