I am joining with Elephant's Child and River for Sunday Selections. Random photos, as is my wont.
Badass cockatoo. No mischief to be found here. Best you visit our balcony to break a pot plant and massacre a plant as one of your antecedents did.
Speaking of which, take a look at this very bad cockatoo in the city. Being hit by one of these dropped pots would give you a lump on your head.
Markers of the Covid nightmare queue spacing remain on streets.
A peaceful reflected sunset with the moon arising. No fire in the sky.
Flowers are always so nice at Melbourne Town Hall except when some harvest festival plants appear in Autumn. They are horrible. Stalks of corn, sheaves of whatever. Bah.
Vue apartments, where tennis star Leighton Hewitt once lived, maybe still does. The developer had to pay $millions to rectify problems with the building, resulting in a complete re landscaping.
I think Fire Fighting Nephew has been ordered by The General, his wife, to attend such a clinic.
Maybe there are some inadequate gingers, but I've not come across one.
Not a perfect framing of the pregnant building but I came close.
How do I get to Platform 2 at So Cross Station without using stairs? The lift of course but there are none in the direction of the arrow and by golly, I searched.
My bedroom has a small west facing window aside from the larger south facing window. For a few weeks I get direct sunshine, which is nice in this cooler weather but not welcome in midsummer.
These balloon photos were taken a while ago. My get up time and ballooning time no longer match.
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I always enjoy your eclectic Sunday Selections. Love the pregnant building, and the balloons (of course). A lovely sunrise too. And why, oh why are lifts so often hidden?
ReplyDeleteEC, so often lifts are hidden. Clear signage helps but in this case it wasn't.
DeleteCan relate to these misleading signs which are very significant when one has mobility issues and wants to sit on the sidewalk and bawl like a baby. I've always like your small window and I think you have a small desk in front of it?
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M, exactly. It defeats the purpose of lifts if you have to go walking to find them. It is a nest of tables in front of the small window. If we have hail, that is the window that takes the brunt of it.
DeleteGingers are indeed for life. My red headed spouse is still handsome after 52 years :)
ReplyDeleteI know Hels, I know. 52 years is rather a lot!
DeleteWithout sounding too pedantic, wont feels more Oxford Dictionary than want.
ReplyDeleteFixed that now Hels.
DeleteQuite a relaxing collection of photos for a Sunday! Sunday is always a time for me to commute to Bendigo. So not as relaxing as it should have been
ReplyDeleteRoentare, I expect you are driving to Bendigo (Base Hospital?) rather than catching the trains, with bus replacements.
DeleteIs that clinic called "Be Snip"? It's hard to make out, I guess it is a vasectomy clinic. I wish Vladimir Putin's dad had attended one ten months before his birth date.
ReplyDeleteDr Snip actually YP. You remind of the line from a song, "If Mrs Shciklegruber had one night said 'Nein mein heir' to Shciklegruber's kisses...I forget the rest but son Adolf would not have been born.
DeleteYour pregnant building reminded me of a helicopter ride we took over the city. Have you done one? It is an amazing way to see buildings from a different perspective. Essendon down to Brighton and back. Fantastic.
ReplyDeleteCaro, that's interesting and no, we haven't, although we have ballooned above the city. I will have a look at that.
DeleteWe had those marks in different place in my community and most people just ignore them. Plus in the store they had arrows to keep foot traffic flowing the same way. But once again it was poo poo.
ReplyDeleteCoffee is on and stay safe
Dora, the markers were followed here but floor arrows were generally ignored. They could be quite silly at times.
DeleteI never realized cockatoos were such stinkers!
ReplyDeleteDebby, like a badboy family member, we still love 'em.
DeleteA pregnant building! I hope it doesn't drop its babies in the street below.
ReplyDelete"My" cockatoos sit on the balcony upstairs where the tenant puts her clothes rack and the pick off the pegs, sometimes with socks still attached and drop them down to the ground. EVERY time, I have to remind her to come and get her socks. The cockies also are eating my dwarf sunflowers, a few days ago I had three blooming and they nipped them off and chewed them up and spat them out. Buggers! Ripping into some of the succulents too :(
That will stop once I run out of seeds, I'm down to one last very full container now.
River, I hope no babies come from the building. Haha, I've heard about cockies removing clothes pegs. We know how much they love sunflowers but they should learn to let them mature to get the seeds.
DeleteThey can do so much damage those birds.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers are looking lovely.
Interesting selection of variety Andrew.
Margaret, do you have many cockatoos in your area? Thanks for your kind remark.
DeleteFlightless birds wouldn't do that
ReplyDeleteTP, so we turn back the clock to times of the Dodo?
DeleteI happen to like those fall flower displays, especially the color scheme. :) What a nice, eclectic selection of images. And I enjoyed the video clip. After watching and coming back to your second photo, all I could think was to wonder if that cockatoo could hit the X's. Heh... Be well!
ReplyDeleteErr, Darla, it was our spring, but thank you. Maybe the were some markers where the pots were dropped but we can't quite see them.
DeletePregnant building? So funny. I suppose some young architect was paid big bucks to design a very wonderful building that houses many businesses and/or homes. And what does he/she get for it? He has to tell everybody he designed the pregnant building!!
ReplyDeleteP & T, I think it is more likely an office block as I can't really see any sign of balconies. It is not a building I would feel proud of but I am a person of my generation.
DeleteThe oddly shaped building, I think I'd want my office about half up the backside in the glitchy part. Some place were giving out give certs and guy stuff to those who got snipped here for awhile. He won't miss em.
ReplyDeleteOh wait, they just snip the sperm tube in humans.
DeleteStrayer, I think very much he would miss them. You are so unkind to downtrodden men folk.
DeleteVery sad face, sorry (lol).
DeleteThat poor cockatoo looks kind of sad perched on that narrow window ledge. I can't believe the one dropping potted plants off the balcony! I imagine that could kill a person.
ReplyDeleteWe have a "pregnant building" in London too, somewhat differently styled.
Steve, yes potentially they could and there isn't much that can be done about it except not have light plastic pots on balconies. I have seen or seen photos of your pregnant builidng.
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