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. For the next few weeks I am going to revert to the Home and Away theme I was using this time last year.
Starting with home. And our garden this time, though there are still many, many photos from Tulip Top Gardens. It has been an unusually wet Spring and everything (including weeds) is going gang-busters.
The second is a not entirely successfully experiment. I was looking out the window just after dusk one evening and noticed that the bank of tritellias (spring star flowers) was just about glowing. There will be daylight photos of them later.
Pretty things aren't they?
This orchid has no fewer than seven flower spikes on it this year. There is another different one heavily in bud on the front veranda.
The anenomies are for Joanne Noragon, to tide her over until hers return.
Just a few more from our garden. (Well perhaps a generous few.)
And now to the away part. As I indicated in an earlier post, himself is on the road again. He is in China until early next month. So far he seems to be loving it and tells me (not surprising) that Chinese food in China bears no resemblance to Chinese food in restaurants here. He always puts on weight when he goes to India and I am wondering whether the same will be true of China.
He started in Shanghai, where this next photo comes from.
And then he moved on. To a town I had never heard of. Dali. This link will give you some information about it.
And a few photos he took on his phone.
I spoke to him a little while ago and am still laughing. It seems he is a tourist attraction in his own right. Every day two or three people apparently ask for his photo, and others take it surreptiously. He thinks it is his beard. Which his sister describes as luxuriant and I am not fond of. It is his face though.
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. For the next few weeks I am going to revert to the Home and Away theme I was using this time last year.
Starting with home. And our garden this time, though there are still many, many photos from Tulip Top Gardens. It has been an unusually wet Spring and everything (including weeds) is going gang-busters.
Pretty things aren't they?
The anenomies are for Joanne Noragon, to tide her over until hers return.
Just a few more from our garden. (Well perhaps a generous few.)
And now to the away part. As I indicated in an earlier post, himself is on the road again. He is in China until early next month. So far he seems to be loving it and tells me (not surprising) that Chinese food in China bears no resemblance to Chinese food in restaurants here. He always puts on weight when he goes to India and I am wondering whether the same will be true of China.
He started in Shanghai, where this next photo comes from.
And then he moved on. To a town I had never heard of. Dali. This link will give you some information about it.
And a few photos he took on his phone.
I spoke to him a little while ago and am still laughing. It seems he is a tourist attraction in his own right. Every day two or three people apparently ask for his photo, and others take it surreptiously. He thinks it is his beard. Which his sister describes as luxuriant and I am not fond of. It is his face though.
