Photo Challenge Winner - Potted Gardens

[cherry*135]

Winner this week

jds_noise - 26

[tcmsecretuseid]

I loved the theme last week. I think those pictures are some of my favorite from the last year. 

[jds_noise]

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@jds_noise wrote:

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@am*3 wrote:

From last weeks challenge thread

@jds_noise wrote:

You're welcome to select a new topic for the new thread. Thanks for the kudos, everyone but the cat just happened to be snoozing in the planter. I just pushed the button on the camera.

jds_noise - would you like to select the next theme?

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I'm out of ideas so if you wish to select a theme I'd appresciate it.

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appresciate?!?! I am absolutely gonna kill Dr. Frankenstein for giving me these fingers....

[tcmsecretuseid]

If I knew how to use the search feature, I'd look for the list of ideas that was compiled several months ago. 

[artfulcreations4all]

Congratulations JD and runners-up.

I've been wondering what kind of bird that is in Simone's photo. He reminds me of the Mynah bird I had when I was a kid, only his coloring was different. (Black with yellow wattles).

Is it a photo taken outside of a wild bird, Simone, or is he/she an indoor pet?

I like him, he's cute!

[j*oono]

Here are some of the themes we've had but I haven't updated it for a while.  Maybe someone else has a full list.

Theme	Winner
A treasured gift	cat mioux
Abstract	TCM
Alone	j*oono
Australia is	**meep**
Back When	cosmosgrove
Birthday Cakes	corgidogz06
Black and White	bandcamp
Blue	freddie rooster
Blue 2014	amber-eyed-girl
Broken	j*oono/pimpy
Buildings	lurker
Calendar	banoras
Cold	kopenhagen
Empty	joz*garage
Fantasy	nicnacs
Flying	tende
For the love of colour	cqtech
Garden	ten*teeny*tiny*toes
Green	roserobin12 & fayekinnit
Happiness	lind
Humorous	pimpy
In the back of my cupboard	kopenhagen
Inside	cqtech
Love	roserobin12
Luxury	boris1gary
Macro	roserobin12
Memorable Moment	nicnnacs
Metal	Dskracing
Minimalist	lurker
Nature	simone
Nostalgia	katymatey*
Passionate	meep
Pattern	lurker17260
Persistence	flashie
Photo Bomb	Tende
Pink	am*3
Portraiture in Monochrome	purple_haize
Red	tcm
Reflection	pimpy
Round	dskracing
Rust	roserobin12
Sea, Land Street Scapes	flashie
Shadow	lionrose
Shoes	punchdrunk
Signs	darwinsmom2014
Sparkle	am*3
Two	lynny_oz
Underneath	poddster
Water	fayekinnit
Weather	purple_haize
Wood	flannie*annie
Yellow	dskracing

[cherry*135]

Maybe lionrose could select the new theme? Second highest kudo's ( as did Erica who chose the last theme)

Or to get it started anyone can. 

[cherry*135]

Updated list of themes. Ones at bottom, not in alphabetical order, most recent

Theme

A treasured gift

Abstract

Alone

Angles

Australia is

Back When

Birthday Cakes

Black and White

Blue

Blue 2014

Broken

Buildings

Calendar

Christmas

Cold

Curves

Empty

Face

Fantasy

Favourite

Flying

For the love of colour

Garden

Green

Happiness

Humorous

In

In the back of my cupboard

Inside

Light

Love

Luxury

Macro

Memorable Moment

Metal

Minimalist

Nature

Nostalgia

Out of focus

P

Passionate

Pattern

Persistence

Photo Bomb

Pink

Portraiture in Monochrome

Red

Reflection

Rocks

Round

Rust

Sea, Land Street Scapes

Shadow

Shoes

Signs

Somewhere you went

Sparkle

Steps

Street Art

Summer Days

T

Three (3) 1st Year Anniversary

Timepiece

Today

Turn

Two

Underneath

Water

Weather

Windows

Wood

Yellow

Perspective

I can't live without

My neighbourhood

Wheels

Happy

Decor

Box

Potted Garden

[simone4010]

Arts, the bird is a young magpie so he's not changed to his full black and white.  He was a wild bird not a pet although I did consider all the magpies at Kooralbyn to be my pets.

[artfulcreations4all]

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@simone4010 wrote:

Arts, the bird is a young magpie so he's not changed to his full black and white.  He was a wild bird not a pet although I did consider all the magpies at Kooralbyn to be my pets.

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Thanks Simone. I never would have guessed he was a magpie. We have them in the U.S. too but I've never seen one. I was reading that  black-billed Magpies (found in the western U,S,) will hold a sort of "funeral" when they come upon a dead magpie. Up to forty birds will gather in a tree and call out raucously for 10-15 minutes and then they'll all fly off in silence.

Kind of like the way elephants honour their dead by scattering their bones.

Animals are amazing.

[soulart2]

Congrats to winner and runners up.

Loved the "catnip" pic and lots of others too