Australian nature meets science and art. By Paula Peeters
Did you know there’s a delightful little gallery at Miles, in the Western Downs of Queensland? It’s called Dogwood Crossing and it will soon be hosting the wonderful Bimblebox 153 Birds art exhibition. I’ll be leading a special Nature Journaling … Read More
This Black Booyong is one of the five important rainforest tree species we’ll meet if you come along to my ‘Trees in Space and Time’ workshop at Binna Burra. Here’s another, the Native Bleeding Heart: Meet five important tree species … Read More
He waits on the bright green grass, alone. As I approach, he walks quickly away (wood ducks don’t waddle). Dark head held high, a cautious eye looking back, watching my every step. I walk by, and he settles back down … Read More
Along a path strewn with brown fire-killed leaves; dried, drought-killed leaves, and scattered with charcoal and ash – I find this: Opulent pink flowers, freshly tumbled, two hundred or more. While above me springs the parent tree. Leafless, its bare … Read More
30 September 2017 The dark green teeth of the prickly rasp ferns wave upwards in the warm northerly breeze, up from the dry crunchy litter of curled eucalypt leaves, and the twigs that spring and snap when you walk. A … Read More