Summer on the Blackall Range - it seems to rain all the time - great for the garden but we cannot plant or do any of the many jobs always waiting to be carried out!!  During the night a large branch from a eucalyptus tree at the entry to our drive crashed to the ground - last month a fully grown wattle tree just fell over - roots and all - we had received 24inches of rain in two weeks - add alittle wind and over it went.....the  Black Cockatoos will be very sad as they love to eat the borers that live in the trees - last summer five wattles crashed over making a huge mess in the garden -which still has not fully recovered.....only one left!!!!

Am very happy as yesterday apart from the first day of this blog.... I sold two books that I had made - and today a little book I put together with photographs taken of birds in our garden arrived from the USA - having been published there.....very exciting as I have never done anything like it before.  We have beautiful King Parrots, Rainbow Lorikeets, Pale Headed Rosellas, and many other birds that live in and around our garden.  Its such a joy when the Black Cockatoos bring their young into the trees near our house each year - I like to think its to show us their babies - but I guess its just showing them the trees in which they can feed off - there is a large row of pine trees along our southern boundry - and they love the pine cones.

                                            King Parrot feeding off our verandah