After very heavy and unseasonal rain overnight, the garden is jumping with birds, cicadas, dragonflies and butterflies. Everyone is out either feasting, mating or drying out, including a very sogggy brushtail possum that lives in a tree next to our house.

But today's real excitement was seeing a new butterfly species - the Fuscous Swallowtail. I was very lucky to find a female sitting still long enough to let me capture some photos of her, then later found her engaged in a delightful mating dance with a male outside my office window. 

Some days are just perfect.