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Flame tree, Jacaranda and Silky Oak, are flowering wildly, against the smoke

Flame tree, Jacaranda and Silky Oak, are flowering wildly, against the smoke

by Paula Peeters | Nov 17, 2019 | Letter from Beechmont, Writing

Flame trees, jacarandas and silky oaks, are flowering wildly, against the smoke. Two months since we nearly lost our house in the Binna Burra bushfire, and fires continue to burn all around us. Our lives are saturated with smoke. What has been incinerated to end up in...
Letter from Beechmont, 23 February 2019

Letter from Beechmont, 23 February 2019

by Paula Peeters | Feb 23, 2019 | Beechmont Nature Journal, Letter from Beechmont, Nature journaling

Here’s some recent nature journal entries from the garden. Enjoy! Upcoming free nature journaling events: Woonoongoora Nature Journal Group Sat 9th March 2019 Nature Journaling workshop – Using colour, Mudgeerabah Sat 16th March 2019 For more details see...
The Rainforest Birds of Gondwana

The Rainforest Birds of Gondwana

by Paula Peeters | Apr 21, 2018 | Letter from Beechmont, Projects, Wildlife illustration

Here are the rainforest birds of Gondwana – starting with the top of the tree canopy, and ending with the forest floor: The call of the Pied Currawong echoes through the forest, loud musical wails and ringing notes, from way up on high. A swish of black-and-white...
A bird lesson, a velvet worm, and a furry friend in the shed

A bird lesson, a velvet worm, and a furry friend in the shed

by Paula Peeters | Feb 15, 2018 | Events, Letter from Beechmont, Nature journaling

This place where I live has a million stories, maybe more. Everyday I glimpse another fragment of plot, perhaps meet another character. Last Sunday a Lewin’s honeyeater gave me a cook’s tour of her larder (the genders of this species look the same, so it...
Topknots at Tullawallal

Topknots at Tullawallal

by Paula Peeters | Jan 13, 2018 | Letter from Beechmont, Nature journaling, Wildlife illustration

We usually only glimpse the topknot pigeons flying high and fast overhead, a steady workmanlike beat of strong grey wings and a flash of pink beak. But last week they were in the treetops at Tullawallal. It’s the highest point of the forest near Binna Burra, crowned...
Rose-crowned fruit dove – nature study

Rose-crowned fruit dove – nature study

by Paula Peeters | Jan 8, 2018 | Letter from Beechmont, Nature journaling, Wildlife illustration

I’m still ‘getting to know the neighbours’ in Beechmont. I mean the plant and animal neighbours! And I suspect this might take a lifetime, what with the amazing and beautiful diversity up here, and the extensive Lamington National Park right on out...
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