Sunday Selections #808

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. Sorry I still haven't succeeded in working out how to do a blog hop. Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen. 

I usually run with a theme. This week I am going to be a little bit (just a little) more random.

Himself has a birthday this coming week.  On Friday I headed into town to do some birthday shopping.  To avoid the heat and because I am a chronically early bird I headed off early.

My city is packed with public art.  Some of it I really like, some of it I don't and some pieces I don't understand.  Whatever category it falls into Iove that it is there.

For some reason I have always seen this one as a stylised rendition of a kangaroo and joey.  Sadly there are no details about the artist or the work's title nearby.

 

I have shown this statue before.  Even before most of the shops opened it attracted families and children who happily climbed onto the dog's backs.

Back to same old, same old now.

I continue to delight in the sky.

 And in the garden.

Our night flowering cactus has put on quite a display this year.  For three consecutive nights we had a bloom to admire.  There are a couple of other buds too - but I think they are ten days or so away from flowering.

 The hoya is having a good year too.  We bought it at some markets several years ago from a woman who was tired of waiting for it to bloom.  She gave up too soon.

 We have grown a cutting from a piece dragged off this one by a visiting feathered vandal and are waiting for it to bloom.  More or less patiently.

I am going to finish with a four o'clock plant (Mirabilis jalapa).  It is another night bloomer, flowering when the heat of the day has gone and closing again in the early morning.  I think it fits Charlotte (MotherOwl)'s colour of the month.

I hope to take you some where different next month.  There is an exhibition at our National Museum I very much want to see.
 

Have a great week.