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Walking Squares #14 – Flower and trees

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Becky’s #WalkingSquares

Have been rather busy over the past few says. I didn’t take my camera with me when I went outside. I decided to to a late afternoon stroll to the road and see how the Golden Everlasting Paper Daisies were doing.

So it looks like I’ll be walking up that hill again

It looks like they are finishing flowering so will have to collect the seeds and spread them all around the place.

A few are going strong

I’ll get good seeds off this one I hope

Time to head back home. My home is down there

Finding a spot on the driveway where I could get a good view of the tree canopy

Even in the late afternoon light, the flowers in the garden really stood out.

Cee’s FOTD

Bren’s Floral Friday #FF79

Getting up close in the garden

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Cee’s Mid-week madness Challenge May: Close up or Macro

I have been trying to get on top of my photos, naming, categorising and putting into folders. I never ending job which I let get out of control.

For this months CMMC, I have these photos from 23 March 2020 that I found while sorting today. Only one has been used before but I didn’t care as I really like it. Can you guess which one?

A blue native flower most likely Scurvy Weed

A pink Pentas from my garden

Caper White Butterfly also on a Pentas flower, this time a red variety

A cape Water Lily flower on my dam with a bonus insect either a fly or a bee

In the garden this week

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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.