It's been a while since I posted on here, life has been very busy!  The seasons have turned, the rains have come and we are heading into our winter, which is our wet season, about a month early this year we are usually still brown and dry at this time of the year but I have already had 170mm of rain and for an area with a mean annual average of 500mm that's not bad. It's a great season for walking, the bush is waking up, things are begining to grow and flower, the correa is starting to flower, several forms of it grow close to my place

this is the lovely pink/green form and is flowering all through the mallee

this lovely green form of reflexa had a very interesting bug on it, now I wonder how that would look made in glass?

The mallee sheds its bark in late summer and with the winter rains the fresh bark on the trunks takes on many different colours, I love this time of year

and this amazing caterpillar was so busy munching on the fresh shoots of wallaby grass that it didn't mind me crawling around taking its picture

and when you are crawling around on the ground the kangaroos think you must have found something good to eat and come over to check you out. This Island is growing again all the life is surging back up into the tips of the plants, another year is beginning, this is such an inspiring time of year I can feel new work swirling about in my head, I only hope I can do it justice.