Celebrating Winter on the Fleurieu Peninsula

 

Kangaroo doe at Mount Bold

Monarch Butterfly, Manning Floral Reserve

Superb Fairywren, Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens

Honeybee and Parrot Pea, Nixon Skinner Reserve

Lambs on Hindmarsh Island

Kangaroo doe at Mount Bold

Golden Wattle at Woorabinda

Almond blossom at Clarendon

Lichen at Mount Lofty Botanic Garden

Joey at Mount Bold

The Colours of Winter, 2024

 

New Holland Honeyeater and strawberry grevillea

Pretty roo at Happy Valley Reservoir

Levels could be higher in Myponga Raservoir

Nixon Skinner CP

Purple swamphen, Happy Valley

At Nixon Skinner CP

At Byards Road wetlands

Byards Wetlands

Low, low water at Myponga Reservoir

Cheeky-beak: our New Holland again

Autumn comes to the wine country

Wine Country Autumn

Gold lies strewn to the horizon and beyond

As if some careless godling

Turned out the divine pockets and

Let the doubloons tumble where they may.

Fields of gold burn, lustrous in the westering sun

As evening settles ― but not for long.

In just a week or three, the next rapacious wind

Will gambol among these vines and loot the hoard

Till bare wood alone remains,

Enduring winter’s ire with never a hint

Of the transient splendour that was

These fields of gold.

Jen Downes