Sunday Selections #608

 

 

 

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 a little different.  The photos are not good quality (for which I apologise).  Coming home from Lifeline last week I had a truly exciting experience.  I didn't have my camera with me and these are all taken on my phone.  And taking photos was not my focus.

I got off the bus and started to head for home.  At the intersection of my street and a larger road I spotted something on the road which made my heart race.  I looked.  I looked again.  And I was right.  There was an echidna in the middle of the road.  It is quite a busy road and the echidna was definitely not safe.  So I headed into the road to stop traffic and escorted the echidna across.  It stopped at the gutter and just as I was thinking I was going to have to scoop it up, it climbed the gutter and headed into the undergrowth under a gum tree.  I do hope that it is safe, and also hope it finds friends/family.  My city is known as the bush capital and I knew that it has a population of echidnas but I didn't expect to see one in the suburbs.

And in other news.  The poor kittens still have feline coronavirus.  We will be going back to the vet again (hopefully early next week).  However that trip might have to be delayed.  Himself tested positive for Covid late on Friday, and I assume I also have the dread disease.  This is a bit worrying because both of us fall firmly into the vulnerable people category.  I haven't yet tested for it because our RATs are in short supply and while I can order others online they won't be delivered on the weekend.  How and where we got it is a bit of a mystery.  We are almost always masked in public, fully vaccinated and socially distanced.  We both feel very ordinary indeed (Australian slang for pretty woeful), but will hopefully recover quickly (though I may not be commenting as much as usual).

This photo (taken in the city centre) sums up my current feelings.

I hope you find sunshine in your weeks too.

Sunday Selections #292

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.
 
The meme is now continued by River at Drifting through life.  The rules are so simple as to be almost non-existent.  Post some photos under the title Sunday Selections and link back to River.  Clicking on any of the photos will make them embiggen.
 
Like River I usually run with a theme.   This week?  Wildlife.  Again.

This first photo isn't one of mine.  The youngest of my brothers is an avid skier.  Last week he had an unexpected treat.  An echidna, ambling across the slopes.

  
He and his friends formed a barricade and stayed there until the echidna had made it to the woods on the side of the ski run.  

And continuing the lucky day theme.

We are often visited by King Parrots.  They are wimps and very low on the pecking order.  If there are other birds about they don't get a look in at the feeders.  And this week they have made it clear that when it is crowded on the feeder, their needs should not be ignored.

While other birds are quite accustomed to us, none will eat from our hands.  Interesting that the only birds that will are so low on the pecking order and intimidated by other birds (including those which are smaller than they are).

We feel lucky, lucky, lucky.   And privileged.