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 is again a bit of a hotch potch. Starting, as I so often do with photos at sunrise.
Next I am going to pinch an idea from River at Drifting through life and show some of our garden ornaments.
Yesterday I had a totally unexpected and delightful treat. Kylie, whose blog I have followed for a very long time, was in the vicinity of my city for the weekend and suggested a blogger's meet up. My chicken hearted self was a bit anxious, but it was lovely. Thank you Kylie.
I hope you all have a week filled with treats too.
River Fairchild - Your dawns have so much beautiful color!
ReplyDeleteI love seeing the garden ornaments… and any and all garden photos. You inspire me to make something out of my dirt, so thank you for that.
Jazz would be having fits about the “horde” of felines invading his domain. 😂 It’s awesome that they enjoy your space so much. Makes me wonder why their own yard is so lacking in cat ambiance.
I’m glad you got to meet someone in person who you’ve known online for so long. I confess I’d have the same feelings of trepidation so I’ll enjoy your experience vicariously and return to my blanket fort.
Scritches to Batty and Odie, and hugs to you.
River Fairchild: Thank you. Jazz would indeed be having fits and no doubt flinging himself at the windows shrieking. Odie does a bit of tail lashing and Batty just watches.
DeleteEnjoy your blanket fort - and I look forward to seeing what you make of your patch of dirt. I hope to get out in ours later and clear some dirt from the overlay of weeds.
Hugs to you too.
This is just the most delightful blog post I've read and sometime. Or I should say experienced. First of all, it's always lovely to see you posted. And your morning shots really perk me up. I'm so glad we enjoy them together. I like your garden a lot. And the whale bone is a family heirloom. I think that's a different category altogether. It's pretty cool that you have visitors to your garden and that your own residents are cool with that or even entertained. I'm wishing you beautiful day as always. Aloha
ReplyDeleteCloudia: The ginger family would like to come inside. Jazz would have hated that, and Odie is not at all certain. I am glad that you enjoyed your post and that my morning shots perk you up. Sunrise is approaching here - and I am looking forward to seeing what it brings.
DeleteThat's great you got to meet up with a fellow blogger!
ReplyDeleteSad about the whale bone but I understand why you keep it.
Alex J. Cavanaugh: Thank you. I have had a few blog meet ups now and they have all been good.
DeleteI am glad you explained about that whale bone. I spent some time puzzling over what the heck it was, and then you explained. I also enjoy your posts so much, and I'm glad to hear that Odie and Battty are hanging in there together.
ReplyDeleteDJan: The whale bone has always made me think of a bird. I am glad, and grateful you enjoy my posts - as I do yours.
DeleteThe whale bone looks like a moose head. Bullwinkle specifically.
ReplyDeleteMike: I have always seen a bird in the whale bone - but then I have never seen a moose.
DeleteI met up with friends of long-standing earlier in the week, too. They popped up to the mountain to see me. They were down on the Gold Coast for couple of days...they live at a beach area just south of Mackay. It was great to catch up.
ReplyDeleteI hope your week ahead treats you most kindly, EC. Cuddles to Odie and Batty...I hope they're both doing well, too. :)
Lee: I am glad that you caught up with friends. I hope Shama didn't treat them as Batty and Odie did our visitor.
DeleteBatty is still sneezing but I hope he is getting better. Fortunately Odie has not caught it.
No, EC...my friends and I met at a cafe. Shama stayed warmly snuggled up on the bed. I warned her I'd be out longer than I usually am, but she just kept snoring away. :)
DeletePoor little Batty...he sure has had a rough ride...let's hope it keeps getting smoother for him.
Lee: I am glad that Shama's peace and comfort were assured. Batty has indeed had a very rough ride.
DeleteThe sculptures and art installations are beautiful to look at. What a view with the pink skies
ReplyDeleteroentare: I am so grateful to live in a spot where I can revel in the sky.
DeleteDear EC
ReplyDeleteThat's a beautiful sunrise. I particularly like your solar fountain - do the visiting birds drink from it, or do you have a birdbath? Thank you for sharing your ornaments and memories they evoke.
Take care and have a good week.
Best wishes
Ellie
Ellie Foster: The currawongs occasionally drink from the solar fountain - and collect nearby snails. Other birds avoid it, but we do have a birdbath.
DeleteI love your garden ornaments! I've always wanted a heron sculpture for my garden (maybe someday), and the solar powered fountain is such a great idea, too.
ReplyDeleteAre Odie and Batty as hostile toward kitty visitors as Jazz used to be?
Diane Henders: Odie lashes his tail at the intruders but doesn't shriek. Both of them watch very carefully. Where human visitors are concerned they scuttle away quickly - after Odie has had a growl.
DeleteI always look forward to your pink skies, EC - a lovely selection today. I think it was a great idea to show us your garden ornaments, and especially the whale bone.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that Batty is improving, and that Odie has managed to evade the bug. I have just had a week of treatment for the skin on my face (pale Scottish skin which burns easily). Thankfully, the treatment is complete, so now I just have to wait for the bright red patches to disappear... :)
I hope that you are well too - and looking forward to your frosty leaves and flowers. Kia kaha
Alexia: Thank you. I hear you on those skin treatments. Himself gets them often. He is not very fair skinned but paying a high price for baking himself in the sun decades ago.
DeleteFrosty leaves and flowers (and hopefully bubbles) are getting closer by the day.
Love your garden ornaments. Recently I watched a YT video about setting up a huge outside terrarium and I'm just dreaming about it. Don't have the space for it though!
ReplyDeleteNasreen: An outdoor terrarium could be lovely. Now you have my mind wandering. And no, I don't have anywhere for it either.
DeleteI love your skyscapes photos and your lawn ornaments. Your ornaments gives character to your landscape. I always wanted to get some lawn ornaments but in my busyness, I always put it to later and later never came. lol... Always trying to stay ahead of those weeds but now, they are winning the war as I'm working on expanding my vegetable garden.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy the new week.
Hugs,
Julia
Julia: I hear you on the weeds winning the war - and I don't have your excuse about the vegetable garden. Good luck.
Deletethecontemplativecat here. Your garden sculptures are adorable. I need to move away from attempting to grow veg here, and go for great statues.
ReplyDeleteSusan Kane: Garden ornaments require less upkeep than a garden too...
DeleteThe garden ornaments are a delight, as are your sky studies. And you know I am fond of cats.
ReplyDeleteJoanne Noragon: Thank you. I worry about the ginger interlopers. They are outside whatever the weather, and seem to spend a lot of time in other people's yards.
DeleteCool captures all!
ReplyDeletemagiceye: Welcome and thank you.
DeleteYour garden ornaments are very interesting, especially the owls.
ReplyDeleteBatty and Odie probably want to give the interlopers a biffing.
It is always hard meeting people new but almost always worth the effort, as it was in your case.
Andrew: The owls (and some other owls I didn't show) were gifts and I really like them. Batty and Odie are much smaller than the interlopers, and unlike them don't go outside.
DeleteIt was definitely worth the anxiety to meet with Kylie.
I'm a bit chicken-hearted about meet-ups too. Hopefully I can get over that once my new teeth become comfortable.
ReplyDeleteI really love all your ornaments! What is the one right under the solar fountain? A light catcher or a spinner? I love it. And those owls at the end :) :)
River: Nice to know that others are chicken-hearted. I do hope your new teeth settle down quickly. In theory that is a spinner - but I cannot make it spin freely. It catches the sun well though.
DeletePink sky photos are so calming...
ReplyDeleteReHiTu/HodjaEffendi: They are aren't they?
DeleteYes they are...
DeleteBeautiful coloured sky, loved seeing it as you did.
ReplyDeleteLike your ornaments, we only have an owl.
Margaret D: We don't do minimalism well. There are other ornaments too. I am looking forward to today's sunrise as I type.
DeleteHi EC - how lovely to see your sculptures in the garden - loved those ... special. Your white and ginger interloper has a good underhang?! But am glad Batty and Odie are safely inside ... however your skies are gorgeous - lovely to have views east and west ... take care and have a peaceful week - cheers Hilary
ReplyDeleteHilary Melton-Butcher: We have views in all directions here, which I am grateful for. The interloper is a big boy, but I am not sure how much of that is fur. Quite a bit I suspect.
DeleteI hope that you are feeling better and that the wind has eased.
Ah-- I love your garden art!
ReplyDeleteBill: Thank you.
DeleteI have had several encounters with bloggers and they have all worked out well, Sue. I think you get a real sense of those you would enjoy by following their blog. And then there are those you know would be instant soul mates and you would be racing to meet them. Glad this encounter worked out well for you both.
ReplyDeleteDavid M. Gascoigne: In my blog encounters I have certainly found that the bloggers had presented themselves as they are and they were all delightful. If ever you are back in Oz I do hope we can meet.
DeleteBeautiful sunrise.
ReplyDeleteAll these miles away the sun rises the same way. :) Small world.
Sandi: I love the way that the blogosphere simultaneously shrinks and expands my world.
DeleteThank you, this was a delightful treat, seeing your sunrise and garden ornaments.
ReplyDeleteYou feel about the whale bone as i do about a couple of ivory keepsakes we have. They are bittersweet.
And of course, my selections are over here.
Deletemessymimi: Bittersweet indeed. I have seen and thoroughly enjoyed your Sunday Selections.
DeleteDarla, the blogger, has one of those solar powered fountains also. They're beautiful! I love both yours and Darla's. And your beautiful ghostlike visitor! Colors in the sky are fabulous to watch, as they change and highlight some things but not others.
ReplyDeleteStrayer: That cat has a BIG voice and is certainly not ghost like in that respect. He is beautiful though. I am always blown away by how quickly the colours in the sky change. I love my solar fountain too.
DeleteIt's nice to meet blog friends in person. I like that white cat and your garden ornaments. A fine post, thank you.
ReplyDeletegigi-hawaii: I have had a few blog meetups now and they have all been good. The bloggers were just the way they presented on their blogs which is lovely.
DeleteI love all the sky pictures and so fun seeing the garden ornaments. How wonderful you were able to meet up with a blogging buddy and that you had fun. I can understand being nervous- but glad you went and had fun. :)
ReplyDeleteDMS: Thank you. I am very glad I said yes to the meeting too - and always delight in the sky.
DeleteI've net several bloggers in the flesh now and it's always been enhancing. I was taken with your owls as I have a special afffinity. I was endowed with an owl as my spirit animal by a group of First Nations friends many years ago. I have quite a collection!
ReplyDeleteLove ALL the garden ornaments and of course you're sunrises. I visited a whale graveyard on a beach here a couple of years ago. It's challenging to get to so it hasn't been disturbed. I felt immensely sad. I am awaiting their arrival here now in June. And I am always spellbound.
XO
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Wisewebwoman: I adore whales and haven't seen them in the glorious flesh often enough. I will show you some of my other owl garden ornaments too. I think it is truly wonderful that what we see on people's blogs is indeed what we get (or has been in all of my meetings with them anyway).
DeleteYour garden is definitely my kind of place!! Did you and Kylie meet at your place? Because…your garden…sigh… :-)
ReplyDeleteHow I miss the sunrise…I’m going to start going out again, walk in the sunrise, thanks to you.
neena maiya: We did indeed meet at my place but it was cool (some would say chilly) and we stayed indoors. The garden is severely neglected at the moment too. I adore the sunrise and hope that you see more of them. I admire you for walking in them too - I usually don't walk any further than my front yard.
DeleteOh, yay! A bloggers' meet-up sounds fun!
ReplyDeleteThat's fluffy boy visiting your cats' turf.
I like your garden accoutrements. The whale bone is pretty cool-looking and, as it was connected to your dad, surely nice to have in your garden.
Bea: That is a very fluffy boy indeed - as is one of his 'family'. My father kept the whale bone inside but it lives on the table outside our kitchen now and I think it looks 'right' there.
DeleteHow nice to meet up with another blogger. I love the ornaments.
ReplyDeleteMary Kirkland: It was very nice - and thank you.
DeleteThe bird sculpture is so impressive! I'd have kept the whale bone too, despite the ambivalence you cite, which I would also feel. (Cumbersome sentence there!) I don't think I'd have the courage to meet up with a fellow blogger or writer in person. I know how harshly people tend to judge others on their looks, and I am very far removed from conventionally attractive.
ReplyDeleteI've created another Haiga for my aquarium project. Even as busy as I am, I insist on doing so despite knowing that poetry is anything but commercially viable. Oh well, it wouldn't be the first time I've been told I was mentally off.
https://poetryofthenetherworld.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-phantoms-of-yesterday.html
Ornery Owl of Naughty Netherworld Press and Readers Roost: Kylie is braver than I am and puts photos of herself on her blog. I don't like looking at myself and don't. Just the same the person I met was just as she presents on her blog and I hope she felt the same way.
DeleteI am always impressed at your Haiga and will be over to check it out soon.
Beautiful sunsets, and, EC, those are ornamental are the fabulous.
ReplyDeleteBob Bushell: A sunrise rather than sunset, but thank you. It is only half an hour or so until dawn now, and I am anxious to see what it will look like.
DeleteI thought of you yesterday as I watched an episode of something called The Bond. about the human animal bond to animals not normally pets. The first episode was a woman on the edge of Mogo Forest who rescues Kangaroos and what happened in the horrible fires, Her favorite is a large alpha male who has hung around her for years, Her name is Rae Harvey...Your stories of animals and some of your photos reminded me. Thank you. Things have been difficult here.
ReplyDeletee: Mogo was hit very hard by those fires. Very, very hard. Homes (and nearly the town) were destroyed and the loss of the wildlife is uncounted and huge.
DeleteI am so very sorry that things are difficult and send gentle well wishes to you and Lukas.
Your sunrises do look beautiful, the colours are amazing.
ReplyDeleteWe have been enjoying some warm May days recently.
I really should take (and share) some photographs.
Nice to see your garden ornaments, I like to see some in a garden.
Wishing you a good week ahead.
All the best Jan
Lowcarb team member ~Jan: I would love to see some photos of your warm May. There are lots of ornaments in our garden and also lots of weeds.
DeleteBeautiful sunrise!
ReplyDeleteLon Anderson: Thank you. I thought so too.
DeleteIt was lovely to meet you and see your place! I imagined a less tall person :)
ReplyDeleteThe whalebone reminded me of a moose. Not many people would have one (fortunately)
Have a great week
kylie: It was indeed lovely to meet you and I hope you enjoyed your weekend away. I used to be a short person but grew eight inches in a year and two the following year. You are the second person to say the whale bone looks like moose.
DeleteI'm not a morning person, so I seldom see sunrises. Those displayed in your post are fascinating! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteDUTA: Thank you. I see most dawns so you will often see them featured here. My partner on the other hand is a spring out of bed at the crack of noon person.
DeleteI was thrilled with your sunrise images. Then you tossed in a generous helping from the garden and my day became even better!
ReplyDeleteGini and I hope your new week is off to a comfortable beginning.
Wally Jones: You are easily pleased. I often post photos of sunrise - and of our garden too. Thank you. I hope you both have a nature filled week.
DeleteLove your sunrise pictures!
ReplyDeleteashok: Thank you. It is perhaps my favourite time of day and I took yet more photos this morning.
DeleteGreat photos and love all those garden ornaments. The white cat sure is a beauty. I hope you have a great new week and Freddie and Morticia send their meows in greeting to Odie and Batty,
ReplyDeleteRasmaSandra: Thank you. The white cat is a hungry beauty. He would very much like to come inside, but we won't let him. Odie, Batty and I thank you, Freddy and Morticia.
DeleteYour dawnscapes are always breathtaking. I was mentally photoshopping the white visitor next to Batty and thinking what a magnificent image that would make. :) I hope your week is off to a great start.
ReplyDeleteNilanjana Bose: The white interloper would dwarf Batty - but they would look good together. I do love dawn. It is such a soft and hopeful light. I hope your week starts (and continues) well too.
DeleteLove the photos as always. I really need to do a picture post soon. Blogger meet ups are weird, am I right? But honestly, I've never had one go badly.
ReplyDeleteJuli: I hope you will do a picture post. Blogger meet ups have always been kind to me. So kind that it is silly of me to be anxious.
DeleteI'm not sure what happened, but here it is Tuesday and I am so far behind. I don't even know what happened to Sunday.
ReplyDeleteAs always, your sky shots are stunning. Such gorgeous pink glows.
You have a plethora of amazing garden art. That is a beautiful fountain and the metal bird (a flamingo?) is possibly my favorite. Just a lot of fun garden art. Love it all.
Bleubeard and Elizabeth: You have been busy, and not well. I find that the days escape me too.
DeleteThe metal birds (there are two of them) are not I think any bird in particular. I call them the quirky birds and love them. They are candle holders too.
I'm sorry. I wasn't referring to the pair of birds. I meant the bird that looks like it was made out of recycled car parts. The one right above the white cat photo.
DeleteBleubeard and Elizabeth: They are the ones I meant too - there are two of them and they live on our back deck.
DeleteI'm confused. Where is the candle holder? BTW, I DO love the one you showed.
DeleteBleubeard and Elizabeth: The wings open out and there is a tea light holder in the body of the bird.
DeleteI saw the whalebone as a moose first, then thought you probably wouldn't have such an ornament, and could then see an owl with wings spread out! I do like other folks' garden ornaments but have none myself and now I'm asking myself why not.
ReplyDeleteThe pinks and greys in the morning skies are so lovely.
jenny_o: Several of you can see a moose in that bone. I can (since it was mentioned) see it, but do see a bird first. I enjoy our garden ornaments and as you know always delight in the sky.
DeleteEs precioso el gato de tu fotografía. Tengo que decir, que me ha encantado.
ReplyDeleteUn abrazo
VENTANA DE FOTO:: The interloper is very beautiful isn't he?
DeleteYou have pretty cool ornaments!
ReplyDeleteThe sunrise is an uplifting spectacle.
Be well.
contempadoraocidental: Thank you. Sunrise always fills me with joy.
DeleteThank you for the owls.
ReplyDeleteCharlotte (MotherOwl): It is my pleasure - and I have some other owls to share later.
DeleteWell, you know I love all of this but Batty and Oatie....the best!!!
ReplyDeleteJ C: Thank you. Yesterday Oddie told that large white cat to leave HIS territory. I was a tad surprised because the interloper is more than twice the size of our kittens.
DeleteGood morning, and how wonderful to actually meet up with a fellow blogger, and if ever I get the chance, yes, I will hop to the meet! I always enjoy your critters, flowers, especially your birds and all this metal and other unique artwork. Very nice. take good care of you!
ReplyDelete21 Wits: I have had a few blog meet ups and they have all been good. Thank you - and you have a wonderful week too.
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