Huge thanks to River who provided some stunning prompts last month.
October 2020: Messymimi is again challenging us.
November 2020: Margaret Adamson and her friends will be providing the prompts, but they will appear here.
December 2020: Me again.
This
meme definitely falls into the 'more the merrier' category. I hope
that lots of you will visit Messymimi this month and play - or applaud. Commenting on other people's creations -whether they post them on the host's blog or their own, is hugely important. We ALL need encouragement. So please, take a few extra minutes to comment on the participant's creations.
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 I am showing more of Floriade Reimagined, and a little more from my garden. Again.
Starting with the Floriade Reimagined site closest to home.
I really liked the suitably masked teddies who welcomed visitors.
There is always one who refuses to wear a mask.
This site also had issues with the vandal birds and for a few weeks the beds were more or less protected by netting.
There was also a scarecrow festival here - and they will feature in a future post.
Back to my garden, where more things come out each day.
The ginger interloper is here a lot. Much to Jazz's displeasure. Unlike the rest of the garden none of my blood, sweat and tears go into producing and maintaining his beauty.
Yes, I know I am obsessional. Please forgive me, but I will almost certainly continue to feature Spring in my city and my garden over the coming weeks. Weeks which I hope find you all healthy, happy and blooming.
Sunday Selections #500⭐⭐⭐
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 marks the 500th Sunday Selections since Kim first started the meme - which I find amazing.
Just the same, it is going to be very similar to rather a lot of other Sunday Selections with no special bows and whistles.
It is Spring here. My city makes a practice of welcoming the season with a festival - Floriade, which has now been running for over thirty years. Over a million bulbs are planted in a park in the centre of the city, shops pop up and activities abound. It attracts hundreds of thousands of people. And, of course, this year it cannot go ahead.
Or not as usual. So we have been given Floriade Reimagined, and the bulbs and the plantings are spread across the city, in shopping centres, in parks, at churches, at the jail...
I won't see all of the Floriade Reimagined sites but will share those that I do. I am starting with some of those I spotted in the city centre last week.
I don't know whether the photo above is a Floriade decoration or not. I suspect not, but liked it and have included it anyway.
These photos were taken inside the city centre. The paper flowers inside the Floriade sign were created by students from local schools and by community groups. Gnomes are a feature of Floriade every year and I will keep my eye out for more.
I also liked the decorations on the back of the Floriade sign.
A woman who walks past our home on a regular basis told me that she considers it part of Floriade, which was a lovely thing to say.
So more photos from home - mostly focusing on tulips this week.
Even the chicken wire (put up to deter the cockatoos) hasn't slowed the blooming down. Last year we got NO tulips in this patch. The vandals uprooted the lot.
There are more things coming out in the garden every day. And yes, I am excited by them. I am also grateful. It is spring here, but winter made a surprise reappearance. We had snow on the hills yesterday and today. The garden appears totally unaffected. Yay.
I hope your week is packed with excitement and beauty.
