Tulips in Araluen Botanical Park

August in Araluen

Poppy's at Araluen Botanical Park

August in Araluen

Hairy caterpillar

Hairy caterpillars eating my artichoke plant - August

Tiny field mouse

The Netherlands - July

Pink flowers in Tuscany Italy

Black butterflies in Tuscany

Black with white spots and orange accessories. 

Caper flowers Tuscany - Italy

Shells

In winter these pretty shells are on our beaches.
MINI SPIRULA

Spiderwebs in winter are huge

Grevillea

Grevillea blooming in New Norcia settlement. Mid May 2016

Eucalyptus

White flowering Eucalyptus tree in New Norcia settlement. Mid May 2016

Banksia

Beautiful banksia flower in Bold Park

Hakea laurina

Also called Pin-cushion Hakea, is growing on my verge. I've planted the tiny seedling a few years ago and it had two flowers last year autumn which are now the seed pods. This month it started flowering again with many more flowers.
I don't know how large it will grow so I keep it low pruned as it's prohibited to have large plants on the verge unfortunately. 

Gall wasp?

I think this is the eggs of the gall wasp, but I am not totally sure... Anyway, it's a beautiful decoration of a dry gum leave.

Green Grasshopper or Katydid

This green beauty was sitting just a few meters from our back door today, on this cooler summer day. After a few very hot days it finally cooled down and that seems to come with more life in the garden. Not sure if it's a grass hopper or a katydid, but it didn't hop but flew to the wall when I came a little bit too close with my camera.