This is the 21st entry from my draft manuscript, working title: Spring in the Cottage Garden. You can read the first instalment by tapping below:
The garden is teeming with life this weekend (okay, itâs only Friday, but I work a three-day week at the day job so I consider the weekend starting from Thursday). Yesterday I went on a morning walk and saw the first definite kahukĆwhai (yellow admiral butterfly) of the season, dragonflies, damselflies, heaps of hoverflies and bumblebees, and obviously plenty of birds. And I really think the inhabitants of my garden are getting used to me. A dragonfly found a wee resting spot in the morning sun, clasping onto a yarrow leaf, and let me get in close and take photos for ages â it didnât even seem to mind the clicking of my DSLR camera. It was still in the same spot an hour later when I walked past so clearly it wasnât too bothered by my photography antics.
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