orchard swallowtail butterfly

WOW – Photo and Word Challenge #1

Published on June 9, 2022 by bushboy27 Comments

Paula’s Words of Wisdom Photo and Word Challenge

“The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly.”
Ponce-Denis Écouchard Lebrun Poet (1729 – 1807)

Orchard Swallowtails make my hands shake

Published on April 23, 2022 by bushboy27 Comments

Debbie’s Six Word Saturday

Finding colours

Published on March 10, 2022 by bushboy37 Comments

Cee’s Midweek Madness Challenge: Rainbow Colours (More Than 4 Colours)

It’s all a blur

Published on March 8, 2022 by bushboy34 Comments

Ragtag Daily Prompt Tuesday: Chaos

In the garden this week

Published on March 7, 2022 by bushboy37 Comments

Xingfumama’s Whatsoever is Lovely Challenge 2022 Week 9

This is my first contribution to this challenge. I haven’t had much loveliness in my life with the floods and rain over the past week. I have been able to get out into the garden and have found a bit of respite with my camera. Here is a bit of what I have found.

Some insects like a Dragonfly who seemed to follow me in the garden

A poor old Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly on a Pentas flower. She has seen better days. I used this angle so you couldn’t see how ratty her wings were at the rear

A Brown Ringlet Butterfly was resting on a leaf in the brief morning sun

The Wanderer Butterfly preferred the Bauhinia flowers

and not an insect but one of the smallest Honeyeater, a female Scarlet Honeyeater. This is the second mass flowering of the Bottlebrush tree bring so many birds into the garden.