Busy as a bee

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Well, the bees have been busy, me, not so much. One of the trees down to the chook yard is in full blossom and it sounds like a billion bee cacophony when you walk past. Billion Bee Cacophony Tree   It's full of Native and European bees, all doing their thing Bee Business The White Mulberry (White Shahtoot) Tree has burst forth with new foliage and what seems like a million fruit. Immature...

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Sidetracked

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I actually wanted to head down to the garden to see what Toni was up to, on the way down, I noticed the Callistemon out the front of the garden played host to a plethora of Scarlet Honeyeaters, they were all over the spring flowers.  I raced back to get my camera, cam back, they had moved to the next tree along and have been joined by their compadres.  I counted at least 5 or 6, 4 of them the males, displaying their gorgeous scarlet colour. Feeding, on the wing, ah la a Hummingbird Lovin'...

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Hail... mary ?

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Well, the small amount of hail the other day was simply a precursor for the doozy that followed it two days later !  We could here the storm coming from miles away, then rain, it poured, 45mm in about 30 mins, mixed with it a huge quantity of hail.  I am from North Qld and have never really seen hail before, my partner is from Victoria and she said this was the longest hail storm she had ever seen.  It kept coming, we were quite concerned about...

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Busy in the garden

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Toni has been very busy in the garden, planting crops and getting beds ready for a spring planting.  The garden is looking pretty good Garden looking gorgeous The Snow Peas are prodigious producers Snow peas (left), flowering Choy Sum (right) for seed collection Broad Beans: grow baby, grow ! and the strawberries are starting to produce, yum ! Strawberries A couple days ago we had the first hail storm I can remember, little hail (thank god) about the size of a pea Hail stones...

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