Sunday Selections #822

 

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.  Each year there is a race to see whether our tree dahlias (Dahlia imperialis) flower before frost brings them down.  This year it was a draw.  We got some flowers on Friday morning but we also got the first frost for the year that has made the plants look very sorry indeed.  Next week I am going to have to cut them down.

 

So this week's Sunday Selections is devoted to their brief flowering - in which the bees found and dleighted in them. 

 

 To reach heights of over ten feet tall and only bloom for a day seems a tad unfair - but we did see those blooms which we don't always.

Words for Wednesday 28/5/2025

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, and mixing and matching is encouraged. 

 

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.  And huge thanks to those of you who come back, sometimes time after time to cheer other contributors on.

 

The prompts will be here this month, but they are being provided by David M. Gascoigne. An additional prompt from Charlotte (MotherOwl) is to include in your take on the prompts.

 

This week's prompts are:

 

• Villian
• Visit
• Bone
• Stork
• Memory  

And/or

 

• Imprinted
• Human
• Kink
• Spring
• Faithful
  

Have fun

Sunday Selections #821

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. Parts of Australia have been having buckets of rain recently.  Flooding rain.  We are in drought and need rain.  Naturally we haven't received any of the buckets.  Every day last week rain was forecast.  Until Thursday we had received none.  On Thursday and Friday we received a little.  And I rejoiced.  And revelled in the beauty.

 

Grey days, but I thought there was a lot of beauty in it too.

I loved the plants bejewelled with water droplets and thought that the colours of the rain washed foliage popped.  The scent of the rain washed air was lovely too.

 

 

 

 There were visiting birds too.

 

 

The birds seemed totally unphased by the rain.

As an aside why oh why are weather predictions accurate to within a degree on temperature and so far off the mark where rainfall is concerned.

 

As I said we had rain predicted every day last week and it fell on two day.  On those two days we had much less (about half) the predicted falls.

 

I am going to finish with a Batty shot.  He is jealous of all the attention Odie got after my last post and assured me (and you) that he is just as beautiful.  And he does have lovely eyes.