Orchard Swallowtail.

So...with summer in full swing and with all the damp weather we have had the garden is blooming like never before. The bees and butterflies are loving it.

This is an Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly...

At rest or egg laying?

Drinking nectar....

I just missed a cracking shot of one of the butterflies on this Cardoon.

Goodbye 2021!

Saying Goodbye to Phoebe for now...

Bye Charly.

At the Rocks with Ros and Andrew...

for the last sunset of 2021...

The Junction.

So...we have had Phoebe and Deranie staying with us for Christmas. Yesterday we finally had a totally dry day to go out for a walk in Girraween National Park. We walked down to the junction of Bald Rock Creek and Ramsay Creek.

Flannel Flower.

Yellow Robin Fledgling.

Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoo.

Frilled Lily

Bald Rock Creek.

Hyacinth Orchid.

Finger Flower.

Four have lunch.

The Junction.

Red Arrow Dragonfly.

Trailing Lobelia...

Narrow Leaf Isotoma.

Mountain gums.

Doing the splits.

Lizard house.

Reflections.

Grass Lily.

Channel Billed Cuckoo Chick.

New neighbours.

So...it's lovely to have two Tawny Frogmouths roosting in the tree next to Blue Moon today.

Sunshine after the rain.

Back lit trees before...

Sunset.