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.
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usually run with a theme. It has been wet here. Very wet - as it has been for much of Eastern Australia. We are usually in drought so I welcome the rain, but it is bringing destruction with it. Dams are overflowing and yet more floods are expected.
This very wet galah made me smile. It came with a much dryer companion.
Then to more celebrations of Spring. From our sadly neglected garden this time. I have trotted out camera in hand when the rain has allowed me. I really, really need to do a LOT of work. At the moment the ground is too wet - though pulling weeds would be much easier.
For those of you who have lasted this long, thank you. I will try very hard to focus on another interest obsession next week.
I hope that your week is bright and beautiful and those of you who need rain get it.
Lots of color. Looks like an amazing spring for you.
ReplyDeleteMike: It is a pretty spectacular spring. The garden has loved the rain - which is rare here. We have had plenty this season, with more predicted.
DeleteA gorgeous bounty of blooms! So much eye candy to feast on. Thank you for all the hard work you put into them and for sharing with us.
ReplyDeleteYes, that is one very wet galah. I hope he doesn't mind me snickering at his dilemma from the comfort of my dry room. :)
I hope you have a serene-ish and pleasant week!
River Fairchild: That galah was sooooo wet. I wonder why/how his companion escaped. Believe me, I need to do a lot more in the garden. Which won't happen today (also wet). And thank you.
DeleteThanks for sharing the beauty of your spring flowers. It feels like balm for the soul as we are getting in our cooler season and most of our colors are in the leaves and the blooming flowers are few.
ReplyDeleteAfter a drought, I can imagine the galah is also happy for the rain although he looks a bit disheveled. I'm sorry about the flooding. Weeds have taken over here too this year. I've been cleaning the flower beds a little bit each day. I'm trying to not over do it.
Stay dry and well.
Hugs,
Julia
We are celebrating Thanksgiving this long weekend .
Julia: Thanksgiving is a holiday we don't have - which I think is a mistake. There is a lot to be thankful about isn't there?
DeleteWe have been much wetter than usual, and the garden shows it. I really need to follow your example but it is often too wet.
Enjoy your autumn - another of my favourite times of year.
Beautiful Galah bird, and the flower are blossoming EC.
ReplyDeleteBob Bushell: I felt very sorry for that poor wet galah, and cannot remember seeing one quite so wet.
DeleteI love all of your beautiful blooms! Wishing you a wonderful week.
ReplyDeletee: Thank you. I hope that you and Lukas have a wonderful week too. A drama free week.
DeleteWhat a splendour of blossoms! And what wonderful photos of this drenched galah. What a facial expression! ... I am still smiling ...
ReplyDeleteSean Jeating: I am glad that you are smiling at that poor wet bird. We did too. And are revelling in the colour in the garden.
DeleteThese flowers are so beautiful in bloom. So colourful
ReplyDeleteroentare: They are both of those things aren't they?
DeleteHow your garden grows...and grows...and blossoms! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWe're having light rain here at present...it started through the night. It's not like what is happening down south, not yet, anyway. So much rain has fallen this year...the ground here has not been dry throughout the year. It doesn't get time to do so. Here, where I live, we have rich, red volcanic soil...and it really has held the moisture. The aquifer will be well topped up. Seeing we are all, up here on the mountain, dependent upon it and rainwater tanks capturing the precipitation it is just as well (pun intended) I guess.
I hope the coming week is kind to you, EC. Take good care, EC. :)
Lee: We have had lots of rain, but not to dangerous levels here, though our dams are overflowing. I suspect that the bushfire danger this year will be low. Which is a good thing, but I feel for those who are flooded out. Again.
DeleteI hope you and your furry overlords have a wonderful week.
What a strange looking bird. Oh all those lovely flowers, so many different colors. We're hitting the no flower phase here, booo.
ReplyDeleteSandy: As its dryer companion shows, the galahs are pretty birds. I hope you find beauty in your season too.
DeleteDear EC
ReplyDeleteMore lovely colours to enjoy. Extreme weather of any kind can be so damaging - drought, floods, hurricanes. However, nature also brings beauty which we can enjoy.
Have a good week
Best wishes
Ellie
Ellie Foster: Thank you. Nature does indeed bring beauty as well as destruction. Too many people (and animals) across the world are seeing the destructive side at the moment though.
DeleteThe wet bird says it all, EC. The colours and variety in your garden brighten my day!
ReplyDeleteI hope the rain doesn’t cause problems for people there. There are so many weather woes in the world these days,
Marie Smith: So many weather woes indeed. I hope the clean up is well underway in your area.
DeleteBeautiful photos as always, and I envy some of your rain (though not all of it - I'm sorry to hear about your flood damage). We're still parched, and our well pump is beginning to suck air. Hoping hard for rain soon...
ReplyDeleteDiane Henders: I feel for you. We are MUCH more often in drought than the opposite. In my city the rain is inconvenient rather than dangerous, which is not true for all. I am hoping hard that you get rain. Soon.
DeleteWhat floral abundance in your garden. I can't see you ever creating a white garden. The poor galah is hardly recognisable as such. I can see its friend has a rather smug look in its eye.
ReplyDeleteAndrew: We did have a white garden some years ago. Some rogue pop-ups ruined it and we reverted to colour again. I thought the drier galah was smug too.
DeleteHoney, I wish you published something everyday! I just get such a wonderful companion book feeling from your photos. very wet galah made me smile too. Enjoy your spring!
ReplyDeleteCompanionable
DeleteCloudia: Thank you. I am far too lazy (and uninspired) to post every day. I appreciate yours though. And rather a lot of other people who do post daily.
DeleteFrom where I am standing, the garden looks perfect!!
ReplyDeleteCaterina: Thank you. Believe me it is not. There are lots and lots of weeds, and significant pruning to be done. When it is dryer.
Deletelove the wet bird, sometimes I think, like now in dry weather it would be nice to walk down the street in the rain and not give a hoot, and then all those flowers, you live in a paradise, Linda Starr here,
ReplyDeleteLinda Starr: Increasingly as I age I care less and less about what people think. The flowers are a joy. The myriad of weeds and work to be done less so.
DeleteI've never seen such a bedraggled galah before, poor thing! The rain hasn't reached us here in Brisbane although they say it is coming, it's just been a bit showery. Hopefully it moves over here soon so there is some relief from everyone getting too much rain. Looks like your garden and flowers are loving it though!
ReplyDeleteHope you are having a wonderful weekend :) Quiet Sunday for us!
Away From The Blue
Mica: Enjoy your quiet weekend - I suspect they are rare. We are not in danger here, but other communities are. Some world-wide weather moderation would be welcome.
DeleteGreat to see such lovely colourful flowers in your garden, in spite of lots of rain. That poor bedraggled galah will be happy to see the sun, and so will you, I expect. We have had 4-5 days of heavy rain and heaps of wind (and it's school holidays here!), but at least we didn't get heavy snow as they did in the South Island and in the mountains of the North.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get a chance to get out into the garden this week.
Take care and look after yourself :)
Alexia: I don't think I have ever seen a bird quite that wet. He will do better today where the rain is intermittent showers rather than a downpour. It is windy and chilly though - as if was for our school holidays that finish this weekend.
DeleteYou look after yourself too please.
I have never seen a galah as wet as that one, he looks like he took a swim. I've heard the weather forecast and there is a LOT more rain coming. Another very wet summer.
ReplyDeleteYour garden looks beautiful with everything blooming.
River: I have never seen any bird as wet as that galah. It didn't seem phased by it though. The garden is blooming well, but goodness a lot of work is needed. When/if it dries out enough.
DeleteYour flowers are a delight to see as often as you wish to post them.
ReplyDeletemessymimi: Thank you.
DeleteI didn't know you were having such rain in eastern Australia for your spring. Don't float away! I like the tulips. I really like those faded orange flowers, with six petals and the star black centers. what are those?
ReplyDeleteStrayer: It is very wet indeed. The orange flowers are sparaxis - which come in other colours too. Lovely things.
DeleteSo much beauty in your gardens, EC. Thank you - I needed that ... and the humour of the poor wet galah :)
ReplyDeletejenny_o: I am glad to hear that. And very glad that your life seems to have settled enough to allow blog visits again.
DeleteIt's all just glorious! hopefully the rain will let up a bit so you can enjoy it all
ReplyDeletekylie: I hope so - and hope to be able to uncover more things. Things currently being strangled.
DeleteWeeds or not, your garden is a beautiful riot of color!
ReplyDeletemolly: Have you noticed that weeds grow better than almost anything else? There is welcome colour and a LOT of weeds.
DeleteThat galah's dignity has been wounded! But those flowers are to die for! Beautiful! I wish we could get a bit of rain-- our various plants and trees are stressed!
ReplyDeleteBill: I hope the galah recovered its dignity (and beauty) as its feathers dried. I feel for you. We have had far too many droughts. Dangerous and destructive things. I do hope you get some life giving rain.
DeleteHi EC - those galah are just such wonders ... oh there's a bit of a bedraggled feathering, but soon they perk up - great photos of them. I can see you've lots of beautiful rain-soaked ground yet the plants shine through ... good weed pulling when you feel like it ... lovely photos - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteHilary Melton-Butcher: The garden beds are too soft to walk on at the moment - but weed pulling will definitely be easier. More rain for most of the week, but I have hopes.
DeleteAnd yes, galahs are wonders. And cheeky charmers.
Never seen a wet Galah until you showed the photos of one. Not much rain here as yet. Love the flowers, they do look colourful.
ReplyDeleteMargaret D: It was a very wet galah wasn't it? I enjoyed the tulips from your beautiful State this morning. Thank you.
DeleteThe battles against weeds is never-ending, Sue. Weeds are like bad politicians - impossible to get rid of!
ReplyDeleteDavid M. Gascoigne: Just at the moment the weeds (and the bad politicians) are triumphing.
DeleteJust when I though you had run out of unusual birds to show.
ReplyDeleteGrannie Annie: We have plenty of other birds that I hope to show you some day.
DeleteWonderful to see the beauty that surrounds you, dear friend. I love seeing your spring while autumn appears here.
ReplyDeleteDJan: Thank you. I am enjoying your autumnal beauties too. Rather a lot.
DeleteLots of color.
ReplyDeleteThat one bird looks like he dipped his face in red paint.
Alex J. Cavanaugh: Lots and lots of colour. Which makes my heart sing.
DeleteWe have been reading about your rain in the UK news.
ReplyDeleteWhat strange weather we are all experiencing.
Parts of the UK still have a hose-pipe ban in force due to the extremely hot summer we had.
I hope the week ahead will be a little drier for you.
I did enjoy seeing all the lovely colours in your photographs.
Sending lots of good wishes.
All the best Jan
Lowcarb team member ~Jan: Thank you. Today was dry and sunny, and the next day or so are expected to be so as well. Then the rain will return.
DeleteI hope that the parts of the UK which didn't get enough rain get some soon. And indeed the vasts tracts of the US that are in drought too.
Nothing looks quite as wet and bedraggled as a wet bird. Your flowers and garden on the other hand is pure beauty. I wish mine looked half as nice.
ReplyDeleteCharlotte (MotherOwl) A wet bird looks truly miserable doesn't it? Believe me, the garden is not at its best - which is all my fault.
Deleteseems like rain's behavior is bit abnormal everywhere almost dear EC .our people suffered with floods and heavy torrential rains for three months almost .
ReplyDeleteyour captures made my day friend!
thank you for delightful treat ,your part of land has some exceptionally beautiful blooms
baili: Too much or too little rain seems to be the rule doesn't it? I have read about the floods and torrential rain in your country. I am so very sorry.
DeleteHahaha that wet gala, I hope it doesn't hear me laughing. But it's so cuuuuute too! Thank you for the flowers, they are my inspiration right now.
ReplyDeleteneena maiya (guyana gyal): Poor wet galah indeed. Hang in there dear friend.
DeleteWith everything withering away on our end I am loving seeing all your pretty colorful flowers. Lol at the wet galah.
ReplyDeleteHena Tayeb: Thank you. All too soon I will be looking at the temperatures from your side of the world with longing.
DeleteTalk about a colorful post!
ReplyDeleteAfter our little hurricane, we really appreciate this flower extravaganza! And the somewhat damp Galah.
Have a great new week!
Wally: Definitely colourful. Thank you. I hope that the clean up after the hurricane is well underway and you can get back to nature - where you are happiest.
DeleteWell, the rain watered your garden profusely and the results were gorgeous! Love your colorful flowers.
ReplyDeletegigi-hawaii: The garden (ours at least) has certainly enjoyed the rain. Much more than it does when we have to water it.
DeleteGreat selection! It's always nice to look at the beauty of nature.
ReplyDeleteRaquel: Welcome and thank you. Nature is solace and healing for me. Often.
DeleteYou have great flora and fauna down under.
ReplyDeleteAnd scary too, if I recall correctly.
:o)
Cheers
PM
Plastic Mancunian: Only a very few scary critters - and some of them are pretty too - like the blue-ringed octopus.
DeleteDear EC, it's a wonder to me still that in the midst of changing color here in the northern hemisphere, we can enjoy the photographs of spring in Australia. What a blessing to have you as a blog friend--a blessings in many more ways than one. Peace from Dee
ReplyDeleteDee Ready: It is lovely to see you here. I do love being able to enjoy two seasons at once - another of the benefits of the blogosphere. Be well dear friend.
DeleteFalta nos hace el agua por aquí, ya que tenemos los pantanos que nos abastecen en toda España, prácticamente vacíos.
ReplyDeleteY tómate con tranquilidad lo de las malas hierbas, que ya habrá tiempo de cortarlas, y disfruta de tus hermosas plantas, que según veo en tus fotografías están radiantes.
Saludos.
Manuel: Thank you. I am sorry to read that you are also short of rain.
DeleteSchöne Bilder vom Frühling und den Blumen.
ReplyDeleteGruß
Noke
Noke: It is a beautiful time of year.
DeleteAnd the irises. I absolutely love them and knitting a jacket once in the exact colour. They thrive on the cliffs here, totally wild, I believe they are fed inadvertently by the wandering sheep. And the birds, so gorgeous. Late to the party here.
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Wisewebwoman: We have more irises coming out each day. Lots and lots of them. The garden is definitely NOT minimalist - and I like it that way.
DeleteWe don't get a lot of rain each year so when it rains a lot we get a lot of flooding too. I love the flowers and the birds. So pretty.
ReplyDeleteMary Kirkland: We very rarely get enough rain - which has led some people to build their homes on flood plains. A costly mistake. We love the birds and the blooms too.
DeleteSo very beautiful. Heart balm and sorely needed, as you know. I like all your obsessions, look forward to next week.
ReplyDeleteNilanjana Bose: Thank you. We all need heart balm at the moment. By the bucket.
DeleteOh the poor little wet galah! It made me smile too, Sue. All your spring flowers are lovely. Our trees are really turning now. Before we know it, we'll have snow. I hope you get some good sunshine soon. Have a great week! Take care!
ReplyDeleteFundy Blue: Poor wet galah indeed. We had some sunshine yesterday and a little today. The rain will be back from tomorrow though.
DeleteHave a beautiful day. Regine
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DeleteThe galah is wonderful, what a striking bird. If we had birds like this here I would watch them all the time and nothing much else would be done.
ReplyDeleteI'm a bit envious of your rain. We could need that so much - we're desperate for rain. The downside of so much rain of course is flooding etc. We experienced that a couple years ago - why can't there be a balance?
Your spring garden is beautiful and I like the "wildness" of it. Spring always brings a lot of work in the garden, and the weeding is definitely much easier when the ground is wet and soft. It's fall here which also means a lot of work in the garden. Right now I'm in full planting mode, it gives me so much pleasure.
Carola Bartz: Believe me we spend a LOT of time watching and delighting in our birds.
DeleteI feel for you on the lack of rain. Droughts are dreadful things. I hope that you get some rain (and not too much) soon.
Our garden is always wild. Manicured spaces are not for me, but at the moment the weeds are rampant. Enjoy your time in the garden. What are you planting?
Just looking at your birds and flowers pics made me feel better...thank you! XOXOXO
ReplyDeleteMildred Ratched: What a lovely thing to say. I am glad to hear it. Very glad.
DeleteI loev your spring posts, just as we are getting ready to cut every back for winter. :)
ReplyDeleteJuli: Thank you. When we are in high summer, I will be revelling in the cool images from your side of the world.
DeleteSo many gems in your garden. Mother Nature no longer recognizes the term moderation, does she? Hugs
ReplyDeleteSandra Cox: Mother Nature has always been a rule unto herself. And thank you.
DeleteThe wet bird is funny and the flowers are exquisite. I love your photography. Good luck with all the rain.
ReplyDeleteGlenda C. Beall: Thank you. We have had a few dry days, with more rain expected from tomorrow. Nearby States are in flood though.
DeleteScrolling through these flowers brings me calm. Thank you, friend.
ReplyDeleteBe good to yourself.
Rawknrobyn: And we all need calm. Thank you - and you be good to yourself as well.
DeleteI could never tire of your flowers, they are always very welcome, also your birds, amazing!
ReplyDeleteDeniseinVA: Thank you.
DeleteYou have orchids?
ReplyDeleteSandra Cox: We do. And the ones outside are doing well. The same cannot be said for those inside.
DeleteWow. That is so cool. Also love that fringy tulip:)
DeleteHave a creative one:) Hugs
Sandra Cox: I like the fringy tulips too. And the orchids. I will show more when they come out a little later in the season.
DeleteThese photos are stunning! I love the bird.
ReplyDeleteAsh @ Essentially Ash
Ash: Welcome and thank you. You will often see photos of birds here.
DeleteThe flowers are beautiful, but I can't get my eyes off that Galah! What a beautiful bird!!! ☺
ReplyDeleteRain: Galahs are beautiful aren't they? And birds packed with charm too.
DeleteHow did I miss this fabulous post! Your garden is so full of colour - the birds and the flowers. It's not raining here atm but the creek is flowing very fast.
ReplyDeleteKim: It is not raining here either today - though the rain is expected to return. I hope your creek doesn't rise too far.
DeleteI am addicted to colour (and beauty) and strive to have both in my life.
Hello, I often enjoy your Sunday selections following the link from Andrew High Riser's blog, tho his blog seems to have disappeared. Do you know if he is ok? Any info much appreciated. Thanks, Ian
ReplyDeleteian: Welcome and thank you. Andrew did have some significant blog problems and Google has closed it. Fortunately he has started a new one which you will find HERE.
DeleteFound him again! Thank- you!
DeleteCudownie to wszystko wygląda. Pozdrawiam serdecznie.
ReplyDeleteKasia J.: Welcome and thank you. I am heading over to visit you now.
DeleteSuch beautiful flowers! You have an incredible eco-system going on in your garden :D
ReplyDeleteDamyanti Biswas: Thank you. That is our aim, and I hope we have succeeded.
DeleteWhat a beautiful season with colorful and beautiful flowers. Thanks for this colorful post. We loved (my daughter and me).
ReplyDeletebread&salt: Thank you so much for telling me that you and your daughter appreciated this post.
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