Featured, Garden Guests Diary, Wildlife 26 February 2010

Looks as if these critters were enjoying an early morning drink from the dew drops on the allamanda flowers. I am particularly pleased with the macro photograph of the ant and it’s my sharpest one yet of these tiny, tiny insects who don’t stay still for long and are not terribly cooperative when it comes to being at the end of my lense!

 Garden Guests Diary 7 January 2010

It’s been a while since I checked on my garden guests and as you know, I have been a bit of an indoors hermit of late working on my new website and shop which I hope you like by the way. I went out to check our snail mail in the early evening and something made me walk over to my citrus trees.

 Art and Photography 20 December 2009

I often think that there is a misconception out there that photography as an artform is easy, especially as there is an excellent range of cameras which do a remarkably good job even set to auto where we can just shoot away to our heart’s content.

 Garden Guests Diary 22 February 2009

Quite a lot of “activity” going on in the garden at the moment in the insect world from creating life, giving birth, protecting eggs to  the newly hatched youngsters exploring their new world.  I’ve said it many times but I am continually amazed at what goes on deep among the …

 Wildlife 11 January 2009

Don’t visit this Park if you suffer from Arachnophobia …

 Wildlife 11 January 2009

A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across America, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination. The cause of these losses is an alarming phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder or “CCD”. When a hive experiences CCD, the honey …

 Garden Guests Diary 4 January 2009

After my upsetting post about the evil assassin bug killing the orchard swallowtail caterpillars in my garden I have some really good news.  I actually had not intended for this update to happen and was checking to see if we had any mail in the late afternoon.  Something made me …

 Garden Guests Diary 1 January 2009

I’ve been watching and photographing a couple of huge Orchard Swallowtail Caterpillars for the past week and they are the biggest caterpillars I have seen.  I was keen to keep an eye on them to perhaps be lucky enough to witness the transformation to cocoon and butterfly. If you get …

 Garden Guests Diary 5 October 2008

Well, I think we are having an early summer in Queensland, Australia as the temperatures have been reaching 30 degrees centigrade already and it is hot and sticky.  Whilst this can be uncomfortable for us humans, the hot summer weather brings about gorgeous summer guests such as butterflies, hoverflies, dragonflies, …

 Garden Guests Diary 31 August 2008

Due to the spring weather that is now upon us in Queensland, Australia, I have noticed a lot more insects fluttering and buzzing around plus all the spring blooms which are bursting with vitality, colour and fragrances in my garden.  The flowering Jasmine for instance has the most beautiful smell …