I highly recommend a visit to the Evergreen Brickworks. This area used to be a quarry and now is an expansive setting with beautiful flora and fauna, several large ponds and trails through various habitats.

Some botany:

Some creatures by the pond:

On this day, there were thousands of gloriously flowering Cup Plants and these attracted many insects:

Other insects:

Thanks to Ken Sproule for assistance in insect and frog identification.

NATURE POETRY

In the grey summer garden I shall find you  

With day-break and the morning hills behind you.  

There will be rain-wet roses; stir of wings;  

And down the wood a thrush that wakes and sings.      – Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) 

Miles Hearn