Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Wet and Aggressive Corella challenges Magpie

Sunday, 12 May 2019

Sunday Selections #428

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 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 post (like my life at the moment) is less organised.  Random even.


Earlier this week, Margaret-whiteangel posted about the Ross Bridge in Tasmania here.  I mentioned that years ago I had done a long-stitch tapestry of that bridge for himself's mama, and Margaret said she would like to see it.  After his mother died it came back to us and here it is.



A few weeks ago in another Sunday Selections I showed you a mural which was being painted.  When I went back to town last week I remembered to take a photo of the finished product.



I like it.  The more I look the more I see in it.  There is certainly a link to the art of our First People, and my city's native bird (the gang-gang).  I liked the reflections of the trees and the very blue sky in the windows of the building behind it as well.

Returning to my usual obsessions.

I never tire of the sky.

Just after first light.



And a glowing sunset with a new moon high in the sky.




The birds are a continuing obsession too.  We are getting up to eight or nine King Parrots visiting each day.  They are low on the pecking order and don't get a look in at the feeders.  So they make it clear that they are hungry and we oblige.





We have some brightly coloured galahs visiting at the moment too.  They are always welcome.



I have been very, very busy in the garden.  Weeding, weeding, weeding, planting, planting, planting, mulching, mulching and more mulching.

Photos will follow in due course.  However I will show some shots of the tree dahlia (dahlia imperialis) which has beaten the frost again this year and is coming into bounteous flower.  Bees love them.  Ours are at least twelve feet tall and bending over with the weight of the blooms.  The first hard frost will see the end of them, so I am revelling in them now.





 In other news, I am likely to be late and a bit patchy visiting your blogs this week.  Himself's sister is coming to stay from Tuesday.  Sadly the reason for her visit is a family funeral and we have a six hour plus drive (there and back) on Thursday.

Wednesday, 8 May 2019

Words for Wednesday.







This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts.

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.


The prompts will be here this month but are provided by Margaret Adamson, and her friend Sue Fulcher.  They  will also include photographs taken by Margaret's friend
Danny McCaughan.

Without further ado.

This week's prompts are familiar phrases:





  1. Sun over the yardarm

And/ or


  1. Going commando

I am really looking forward to seeing where these phrases take people.

Sunday, 5 May 2019

Sunday Selections #427

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 was then continued by River at Drifting through life.  Sadly she has now stepped aside, 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 while shopping for fruit and vegetables at the market we came across
Nils Lantzke.  Nils has been providing a community service I truly admire for well over a decade.


He visits the hospital, the hospice, nursing homes and the housebound to provide therapy.  Free therapy.  Very specialised therapy.  Alpaca therapy.  I was at the funeral of someone whose last days had been brightened by the alpacas, when Nils and two alpacas arrived.  Which was wonderful, and a bright spot on a very sad day.




This is the van they travel in.


I was just taking a photo when Nils came up, said they were on the way home from the hospice, and asked whether I would like to give Hercules an apple as a treat and reward.  Of course I jumped at the chance.  Hercules is a remarkably dainty eater (but the warning to hang on tightly to the apple was warranted).  I then asked Nils if he would feed him while I took photos - he agreed but stressed they should be of Hercules which is the only reason why I didn't show his face.




Checkout those eyelashes!!!





Where was himself while I was having this treat?  As usual he hadn't waited for my slower self and had barrelled off to the car.  He missed all the fun.  I have no sympathy for him on this count.  None.

Nils had a dreadful loss earlier this year.  While he was walking Hercules and Mimosa they were attacked by an unrestrained dog.  The dog owner apparently filmed the attack (and has not yet been located).  Hercules was traumatised but physically unhurt.  Mimosa had to be euthanased.  Hercules kept looking for her and grieved.  As did Nils and rather a lot of people in my city (including me).

I am proud to say that some local businesses clubbed together and bought Nils a baby alpaca, Paprika.  Paprika is in training and will shortly join Hercules on their therapeutic visits.

I would love to receive an alpaca visit if I was confined to a nursing home or the hospice...


Saturday, 4 May 2019

Blogger Glitch?

At the moment when I log into my reading list on my dashboard it is empty.

If I click on the names of the blogs I am following on the right hand side it says that blogger (bless it) cannot find a feed and that the url may be wrong.

If I go to manage the blogs and click on a blog it takes me there happily.

Any suggestions?

I really don't want to miss new posts from you.

ALL FIXED NOW so I have turned off the comments.  Thank you one and all.

Wednesday, 1 May 2019

Words For Wednesday







This meme was started by Delores a long time ago.  Computer issues led her to bow out for a while.  The meme was too much fun to let go, and now Words for Wednesday is provided by a number of people and has become a movable feast. 

Essentially the aim is to encourage us to write.  Each week we are given a choice of prompts: which can be words, phrases, music or an image.   What we do with those prompts is up to us:  a short story, prose, a song, a poem, or treating them with ignore...  We can use some or all of the prompts.

Some of us put our creation in comments on the post, and others post on their own blog.  I would really like it if as many people as possible joined into this fun meme, which includes cheering on the other participants.  If you are posting on your own blog - let me know so that I, and other participants, can come along and applaud.


The prompts will be here this month but are provided by Margaret Adamson, and her friend Sue Fulcher.  They also include photographs taken by Margaret's friend
Danny McCaughan.

Without further ado.

The weeks words are:
  1. Scuttle
  2. Rapper
  3. Drop
  4. Machine
  5. Flowery
  6. Button



And/ or 

  1. Cashback 
  2. Tipping
  3. Pizza
  4. Energy
  5. Unsubstantiated
  6. Clear

Have fun.